possible tank mates for a peacock?
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rudyistaken
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Do soft corals and perhaps a damsel or two.
rudyistaken
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Personally I would try anything but be prepared to lose it. I have fish, or inverts living with most of my mantis and some work and some don't.
I have a big male Ternatensis with clowns a lawnmover blenny, 2 urchins and a bunch of corals. No issues, however my female Chiragra won't let me live in the same room as her..
I have a Ciliata that lives with small fish and literally walks all over the place, but has become so lazy he only spears what I give him. Go figure he won't kill a clown, but will kill a goldfish??
I have a big male Ternatensis with clowns a lawnmover blenny, 2 urchins and a bunch of corals. No issues, however my female Chiragra won't let me live in the same room as her..
I have a Ciliata that lives with small fish and literally walks all over the place, but has become so lazy he only spears what I give him. Go figure he won't kill a clown, but will kill a goldfish??
Kigs
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i know, it's a temporary setup. i can't wait to see this guy in a bigger tank. 
how about red knob sea stars? http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=562
how about red knob sea stars? http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=562
rwhhunt
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sea stars should be fine, try a damsel to see what kind of temperment your mantis has, if it is cool with a damsel for a while, you may be safe trying a clown or some nonaggresive (non crustacean predator) fish. My peacock lives with a LARGE turbo snail, choco chip star, bubbletip brittle star, large Allardi clown, a few hermits, and tons of "snorkel" sand burrowning snails i found on ebay as food (but she wont eat them!); this is all in a 26 gallon. But my friend keeps his Oerstedii in a 10 G with two saddle back clowns. The second clown was just recently introduced after several months apart (we split the pair into my and his tanks last year) upon introduction the newbee (smaller) clown got his a$$ kicked...BAD...so we put the resident clown in a time-out tank for about four days, upon reintroduction the aggression had subsided a bit, but still was not lookin good; even the mantis was coming out and investigating this "intruder" so we moved some rock around and made a new little protective corner for the newbee. After about a week, everything is gravy, they clowns look like they are flirting all the time! swimming and dancing together and i think the mantis is more scared or cautious of the clowns than the other way around! anyway, point of the story is that it can certainly be done with a nonaggresive roomate and a laid back mantis.... I am about to redesign my wennera set up and upgrade to a 12 nanocube, and am thinking about having two small aquacultured seahorses since they mind their business, and my wenny lives with a firefish and has only killed a couple snails in 8 months....
Kigs
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yeah i've noticed that my mantis ignored hermits, but only eats snails and crabs(mithrax). i'm going to give it a try.
while i'm here, i've posted another thread about shell disease. does anyone have a good pic of shell disease on peacocks? a part of his shell looks bashed, but it doesn't look that serious.
while i'm here, i've posted another thread about shell disease. does anyone have a good pic of shell disease on peacocks? a part of his shell looks bashed, but it doesn't look that serious.
Kigs
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well, I've just added an urchin (the one with blue center, and crazy long spines) and an arrow crab, along with 4 humongous mexican turbos to distract him from the urchin & crab. I'll see how they do.
still wondering about that shell disease. he seems to a crack on his shell where few ponds are scurrying around it.
still wondering about that shell disease. he seems to a crack on his shell where few ponds are scurrying around it.
Alarmguy66
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My Arc-eyed Hawkfish is full grown and lives with a 4-5 inch Peacock. No hostility toward each other, but the two of them kill anybody else I try to introduce to the tank. The Hawkfish perches high, the peacock perches low, and nothing living is allowed in between. Plenty of corals in the tank, but no other living beasties.
Kigs
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lol, i think i got too big of a snail for my mantis. when i dropped them in, he just gave me a look of "...***?" when he tried smashing them, insted of the usual "kapow" it sounded more like "ting!" hmm.. i hope he eats them, he will be really full after four of these guys, and hopefully he will shed off his exo.
Kigs
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i traded them in for some margarita snails, funny thing though.
one of his smashers, he always holds out now, instead of folding them in a mantis-form. coul dhe have hurt it trying to eat the giant turbos? he can't seem to smash the maragaritas, he just seems to spin them around.
one of his smashers, he always holds out now, instead of folding them in a mantis-form. coul dhe have hurt it trying to eat the giant turbos? he can't seem to smash the maragaritas, he just seems to spin them around.
I have a perc clown hosting a BTA with my 5" smasher. The set up is a 24G aquapod with 50lbs of rock. Everyone loves one another. The clow splashes around in his home, and Bug (the name I give to my mantis) could care less. I reach in the tank to clean things up a but, somethimes around his hole, and it never gets ready for a attach. I might add though. he is lazy as hell. Hangs his eyes out of his hole in the rock and just looks around for hours. I tape a "to do list" to the glass but when I come home its always in the floor. He never has a anwser, just cleans his eyes.
Kigs
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my mantis can't smash anything right now, so i think the arrow crab is goin to be fine for awhile. even when the mantis does heal, i don't think it will attack him since the mantis seems so uninterested. besides, the arrow crab stays on top of the tank all the time, out of the mantis' sight. it's pretty smart.
i'm going to try introducing a damsel, or a baby GSM. my mantis seems interested only in snails or food that i feed him from chopsticks.
i'm going to try introducing a damsel, or a baby GSM. my mantis seems interested only in snails or food that i feed him from chopsticks.
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