The Continuing Adventures of Tim (Supermantis)
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Scalare102079
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Welcome back TIM-MAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi all, just spent the weekend recapping the adventures of Tim! How good is this tread!!!
Anyway I have a question to pose,
how do the mantis mate, and has anyone managed to keep more than one in a tank?
Surely if this is possible, there is no more desreving mantis than Tim.
This could spawn an entirely new chapter in the adventures of tim the super mantis,
or maybe he'll just see her as competition and there'll be trouble, not sure.
Has anyone had experience with this?
Anyway I have a question to pose,
how do the mantis mate, and has anyone managed to keep more than one in a tank?
Surely if this is possible, there is no more desreving mantis than Tim.
This could spawn an entirely new chapter in the adventures of tim the super mantis,
or maybe he'll just see her as competition and there'll be trouble, not sure.
Has anyone had experience with this?
Scalare102079
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you might want to post that question to gonodactylus.... he knows all that is Stomatopods!
Fish-Brother
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WOW!!! this post rocks my socks!!!!!
!rogerwells
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what are those things called that tim was looking through for food? they look like plants or somthing...they would be perfect for my tank
rogerwells
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how is tim doing?
fussoverthis
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Is Tim single? 
DensityMan
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fussoverthis said:Is Tim single?
He is single and grumpy for it too apparently.
He's almost always looking for "companionship" as well. *grin*
His roommates still don't last very long though... I think he's really picky. He does take all of his roommates out to one last dinner though, before... parting ways.
DensityMan
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rogerwells said:
Tim's doing really well, but I know it's close to the time I need to buy him new "friends." He's taken to swimming to the surface to look directly at me before demanding food now.
He doesn't seem very pleased with the last few feedings of inanimate food either...
LOL
DensityMan
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rogerwells said:
While Tim's domain does have several types of small anemone and zoanthids, most of his kingdom is covered with various macro-algae.
In that picture it is mostly the purple scrubby stuff and some spongy-feeling caluerpa...
Aside from providing him with garden space it also helps his "roommates" to survive a bit longer... sometimes even for days.
Regarding food survivng longer:
Glaurung (my G. Platysoma) is always looking at me when i wake up. His tank in near the foot of my bed, and he stares at me,like the cats...wanting food,perhaps?
I moved over there a minute ago,and there he was, at the tank's wall,right in the middle of 2 snails and next to 3 hermits,ignoring them.
Then, he shot back into his hole and stuck his head out,waiting to be 'drop-fed'. He will completely ignore the snails.hermits until I scoop one up in the net and drop it over his head,so that he can catch them, and then the smacking begins...wierd.
-Ron
Glaurung (my G. Platysoma) is always looking at me when i wake up. His tank in near the foot of my bed, and he stares at me,like the cats...wanting food,perhaps?
I moved over there a minute ago,and there he was, at the tank's wall,right in the middle of 2 snails and next to 3 hermits,ignoring them.
Then, he shot back into his hole and stuck his head out,waiting to be 'drop-fed'. He will completely ignore the snails.hermits until I scoop one up in the net and drop it over his head,so that he can catch them, and then the smacking begins...wierd.
-Ron
DensityMan
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It seems Glaurung may be much more talented at training humans than Tim is...
:lol:
:lol:
rogerwells
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would a mantis shrimp be kept better in glass tank or something else?
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