Croc Hunter
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I have a 120 gallon tank. Should i get a peacock or a spearer? If the peacock, I'm affraid of the tank being cracked. suggestions please
Which mantis shrimp?
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majestic sea life
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O.S (pecock mantis) cant break glass over 8mm. 120gal is way over kill IMO but u can add some fish if u want. Spearers hide almost 98% of the time. So a peacock is better IMO but just get a 20gal or bigger bigger for one of them.
~Brian
~Brian
Croc Hunter
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so a peacock cant break my 120? This is the only tank I have right now. I really want to turn this into a saltwater with a peacock.
Gonodactylus
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Your 120 is safe. I've never had a tank that large broken or even chipped. The largest tank I've lost was a 40 and that was a thermally insulated fiberglass unit with a glass viewing port made of ordinary double safety glass.
I have several 100 - 150 gal systems being used for O. scyllarus. Two piles of live rock with a couple of feet of open gravel and sand makes a realistic setting.
Roy
I have several 100 - 150 gal systems being used for O. scyllarus. Two piles of live rock with a couple of feet of open gravel and sand makes a realistic setting.
Roy
Croc Hunter
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can ya'll please post pics of your mantis's tanks to give me an idea of my future setup, please.
majestic sea life
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Neo-Fight,
It's not big for a mantis its overkill jk. thats cool if you do that man to bad u cant put more then one.
~Brian
It's not big for a mantis its overkill jk. thats cool if you do that man to bad u cant put more then one.
~Brian
Croc Hunter
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i'll just get one peacock. I'm STILL conserned about the glass, but what the heck. I'll give it a try.
pisces77
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Neo-Fight said:
That's me making the mantis hotel. This is the description I wrote in the other thread:
I just got my first mantis about 6 months ago, a ternatensis, then a second in Nov., a glaborus. I am thinking of picking up the chiragra from my LFS to add to my mantis Condo (currently under construction). It will be a 55g with 4 compartments 10, 17.5, 17.5, 10. For dividers I was thinking 1/4 inch plexi. In addition to two 20g tanks also for mantises.
Now granted, the types I am keeping remain much smaller. But 120 is way to much space IMO, why not split that up? And don't worry about the glass. Fingers, maybe :lol: .
swiftwing7
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majestic sea life said:
What kind of fish could you keep with a peacock mantis?
I am also making a Mantis Hotel out of a 55.
I was originally going to go 3 or 4 compartments, but I have since changed my mind and have decided on 2 sections (Mantis Duplex?).
I want to give the O.S. some decent living space, so I am going to shift the dividers to 30 and 25 gallon and have a Peacoc and perhaps another moderate or large species (depending upon what is available).
I was originally going to go 3 or 4 compartments, but I have since changed my mind and have decided on 2 sections (Mantis Duplex?).
I want to give the O.S. some decent living space, so I am going to shift the dividers to 30 and 25 gallon and have a Peacoc and perhaps another moderate or large species (depending upon what is available).
Neo-Fight
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swiftwing7 said:
I would recommend one of 2 fish...
A really fast fish, or...
A fish you don't really like.
J/K, I am sure you will get an expert weighing in soon but I am under impression that the smashers don't particularly have a taste for fish, but there is always the chance... so I am sticking with my recommendation
Though not an expert , I agree that there is always a chance, as he said.
My G. Viridis killed a Green Chromis that became too inquisitive 9face in the burrow), though he otherwise ignored the two Chromis that I had introduced prior to that. I removed the other fishy quickly. lest I see the same thing again (I sort of liked those little green guys).
-Ron
