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Parker Coffin

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I want to make my fish only tank into a mantis shripm tank. In a while though its a 25 gallon glass eclips i know its not safe to keep a mantis in a glass tank, i wanted to get i really big one.But can i keep one in a glass tank if i give him lots of places to hide?
 
Well, from what I've read...Glass is fine. As long as you give the Mantis hiding places it will have no reason to break open your aquarium. Acrylic is more shock obsorbing but glass still works. Hope its gonna be a mantis only tank cuz I bet the fish you have in there would make a GREAT MANTIS MEAL!! 25 gallons is plenty of room though.
 
Ya i have a 5 gallon, but i want like the mac daddy mantis shripm. I know that my trgigers and lion would kill him. I have a little 5 gallon acrillicy tank. Its got a mantis, but you know what I want :). Im just ganna wait till my fish are gone. I hope they dont iI have a baby clown trigger. But when they do I would like a big mantis.
 
I'm afraid that I started this near myth about stomatopods and glass tanks. In the early 70's, I had a large (18 cm) Odontodactylus scyllarus break the face plate of one of the old "Instant Ocean" marine tanks. That glass was thick double-glazing. I mentioned this in a few popular pieces about stomatopods and the story has been around ever since. Large smashers such as Odontodactylus scyllarus and Hemisquilla ensigera can break glass, but they USUALLY don't. Any thing under 4 inches I would not hesitate to keep in a normal glass tank. Still, I wouldn't tease the animal and try to get it to strike at your finger through the glass.

Roy
 
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