So how big of a mantis am I looking for?

[Bax]

My TBS has been in a few weeks now. I 've routed out two 1" pistol shimp mistaking their clicking for mantis. I'am not sure I wanted to do that but it happened. I have delt with one 1" mantis (positevely ID'd) it's been bagged and tagged.

I have also seen one more just about an inch. I'am planning to target that one this weekend.

My questions is:

Almost 75% of my barnicles are already toast. Some pretty large ones too. So can a small 1" mantis do that much damage or do I have a larger brute hiding somewhere that I need to be on the look out for? Some of the shells, large ones, are just blown apart and the two mantis I've seen so far are kinda small. Or am I just under estimating the power of the evil mantis?

 

[PRC]

I think a one inch mantis could make short work of most any barnacle.

 

[Bax]

Well that's good news and bad news.

It's good because, hopefuly, I don't have a monster mantis roaming my tank.

And it's bad news because I have still have at least one 1" little monster roaming my tank.

My TBS was totally encrusted in live barnacles when it arrived. They are an endagered species in my tank now.

But I'll get him.

Thanks

 

[kp1917]

Bax,

Do barnacles live forever in the tank environment? I love mine but I thought that they are short lived?????

KP

 

[liverock]

Bax,

Do barnacles live forever in the tank environment? I love mine but I thought that they are short lived?????

KP

They are.....2-3 months at best as they are filter feeders....be sure it is a mantis, as pistol shrimp are good guys!
Thanks
Richard TBS
www.tbsaltwater.com
:rollface: :rollface: :rollface:

 

[kp1917]

Richard, is there anything that we can feed our barnacles to keep them alive, or is it futile??

KP

 

[hdtran]

You can expect your mantis shrimp to be smaller than the ones pictured in this link:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Feb/14/ln/ln01a.html

 

[docklink]

You can expect your mantis shrimp to be smaller than the ones pictured in this link:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Feb/14/ln/ln01a.html

Gahhhh.....:eek2: a veritable 800 lb. gorilla. That looks like incentive not to wade there regardless of pollution concerns.

 

[Cearbhaill]

Here's one that came off of my TBS rock...

 

[liverock]

Nope

Nope

Richard, is there anything that we can feed our barnacles to keep them alive, or is it futile??

KP

Nope, they need food you cannot supply....and if you do will foul your tank....

Richard TBS
:rollface: :rollface: :rollface:

 

[Bax]

hd tran

I'll have nightmares about that one!

Cearhaill

That looks a tad smaller than the one I've already dispatched and about the size of the one I am searching for. Slippery little buggers! Fast as lightning too!

It's too bad they don't play well with others.

Richard

I've been feding my tank a small amount of cyclopseze (sp.?) and baby brine for the filter feeders (corals, turkey wings, oysters & barnacles) and an anemone. Every one seesm to respond even the barnacles. Is this a really bad idea?

 

[tlouie]

Bax,

I'm having the same problem , I want to catch my mantis and put him in a 10 gallon i have setup for him, with lots of YUMMY gorilla crabs

But he/she just doesn't want to come out.....blah

lost most of my barnacles too...bummer

 

[tlouie]

Bax,

I'm having the same problem , I want to catch my mantis and put him in a 10 gallon i have setup for him, with lots of YUMMY gorilla crabs

But he/she just doesn't want to come out.....blah

lost most of my barnacles too...bummer

 

[tlouie]

Bax,

I'm having the same problem , I want to catch my mantis and put him in a 10 gallon i have setup for him, with lots of YUMMY gorilla crabs

But he/she just doesn't want to come out.....blah

lost most of my barnacles too...bummer

 

[Bax]

Yeh

Still looking for mine. I am going to bate him this week end.
I've got a bucket full of those hairly gorilla crabs I keep alive with change water for him when I get him. I f you want him you can have him, gorillas too.