Mantis Carney Games
Mantis Carney Games
Well today Manfred's new playmates showed up. I ordered 100 of those Nassarius Obsoleta snails off someone on Ebay. Consider that a cold front of 30 degrees rolled in two days ago, I'm amazed that all of them lived. Anyways, I'm warming them up, acclimating them to the mantis tank, and dropping them in when I realized I could have some fun. Mantis Carney Games!!!!!! (hey, why not).
Instead of dropping them in, try tossing them into the mantis burrow. (For those of you who have no clue, this is similar to those charity games where you drop the quarter in the tank and try to land it on one of those little shelves. Not real easy.) After the first 30, I started to get somewhat good at this. I learned that, like football, if you give the shell a little spiral, it flies truer. Managed to pelt two or three into the burrow. Of course, outside the burrow, it looks like the landing of the 101'st Shellback brigade. Manfred didn't know what the hell was going on, but when the snails started moving around, he got real interested. Popped the first one a couple of times. Not sure if he ate it (but it's still in there and it isn't moving too much.). After I landed the second or third in there, he started carrying them out and dumping them at the entrance to the burrow (Think Fred Flintstone and the Sabre Tooth cat) and giving me a really disgusted look.
"Dude.... DUDE....... Yo' He lives!!!!!
Man we saw you in there takin' on the Mantis
(You got serious thrill issues dude....)"
I wish I had had my camera with me, it was priceless. Finally, he got so sick of it he moved over to the "Summer House" to get away from the hubub.
Hey, look at it this way...
1. It was cheap.
2. He gets "Maid Service" (Mantis's are pigs with their food) or "Room Service" (if you know what I mean :lol: )
3. I get to go out of town for Christmas without worrying about feeding him!!! :bum:
Jay
) the man with the plan cant be beat!
