Will They Grow Back?
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Gonodactylus
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Some shippers remove the dactyls of O. s. when shipping, but rarely do they rip off the entire raptorial appendage. Sometimes the animal stabs a net or plastic container and pulls them off in the struggle to get free. Also, severe stress caused by cold, heat, low oxygen, or fouled water can cause the muscles in the raptorial appendages to be damaged. The animal itself literally twists off the appendages. It will then regenerate new ones. It takes four molts and several months for an O.s. to regenerate new raptorial appendages, but many manage it as long as they have an adequate food supply.
Roy
Roy
Hey Fishy1
Your in Iowa. I am in Omaha Nebraska. I am looking for more local reefers and other local people that like mantis. E-mail me sometime Mindyjace@hotmail.com. I would like to share good lfs and if you interested trade stuff form time to time.
Your in Iowa. I am in Omaha Nebraska. I am looking for more local reefers and other local people that like mantis. E-mail me sometime Mindyjace@hotmail.com. I would like to share good lfs and if you interested trade stuff form time to time.
Fishy1
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Hey there Jace
We have a local reef club that meets every 3 months. There are several that attend regularly......look up the "are there any Iowa reefers" thread and you'll see how many there are. There is a new LFS that opening up here on the 14th of December. It is owned by Janna Mozdzer who is the head of the club. I think she posts under JM in the thread. My daughter and I both have a mantis now. There are quite facinating aren't they? Anyway check out that thread and get yourself on the mailing list......Omaha isn't that far away
Janey
We have a local reef club that meets every 3 months. There are several that attend regularly......look up the "are there any Iowa reefers" thread and you'll see how many there are. There is a new LFS that opening up here on the 14th of December. It is owned by Janna Mozdzer who is the head of the club. I think she posts under JM in the thread. My daughter and I both have a mantis now. There are quite facinating aren't they? Anyway check out that thread and get yourself on the mailing list......Omaha isn't that far awayJaney
Gonodactylus
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Some day I'll have to tell you guys how an Iowa farm boy who did not see an ocean until he was 20 ended up studying stomatopods for the past 30 years. Needless to say, it had a lot to do with cold winters and the fact that stomatopods generally are tropical.
Roy
Roy
Fishy1
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Jeremy, it's in the Reef Discussion forum. Janna posts under JSM she's the one to contact......or if you just post to the thread she'll probably see it and reply. Like I said she's opening a new store on the 14th. We also have a couple other ones here in Des Moines that are nice too......Adam's and Iowa Pet. Below is my attempt to post the forum link.....hope it works. If not, go to Reef Discussion, then search, by typing in "any Iowa reefers," "any date."
Janey
http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48432&highlight=any+Iowa+reefers
Janey
http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48432&highlight=any+Iowa+reefers
Fishy1
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I'd love to hear your story sometime Roy. We've lived in Des Moines, Iowa for most of our 54 years. When hubby and I retired we moved to Oxnard, Ca. and lived there for 8 months. Simply beautiful out there. Funny thing was, though, we missed our two girls and had a first grandchild on the way. Moved back last Feb. and once again are facing Iowa's cold winter weather. Hope we don't have any bad storms with power outages.......wouldn't want my little mantis to get a chill!
Janey
Janey
Gonodactylus
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Well, it all started when I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa looking at neural integration in insect brains. One February afternoon my advisor and I prepared a cricket to record from its brain. We were using a small darkroom with electromagnetic shielding and recorded electrical activity in the crickets brain for hours. When the cricket finally died, we emerged from the lab well after midnight to find that a typical late February, state basketball tourney blizzard had set in. With 50 mph winds and 10 inches of snow, we were stuck in the lab until the next day. The conversation took an obvious turn on how to get to some place warm. My advisor had encountered stomatopods while working in Bermuda and suggested that they would be perfect for research on animal communication because they were highly visual and fought like crazy. We eventually wrote a grant for funds to study their communication, but it was turned down. We then heard that the US Navy was funding studies to explore sources of underwater sound. We suggested that stomatopods smashing all those snails and hermit crabs might be a source underwater noise. They sent us to Bermuda for the summer to record stomatopod sounds - and the rest is history.
Roy
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