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Pseudosqilla ciliata What do you guys know about these???
 
Has anyone bred mantis in the home aquarium before?
 
First I'm not trying to discurage you, as I am very pro breeding as its better for the wild reefs if we can captive breed more speacies I personaly am building a tank purly to attempt to breed tangs (which is currently almost impossible), but there are things you need to know first.

Yes it is possible, would I recomend it to someone who has never bred fish let alone inverts? No.

Mantis shrimp are probably one of the hardest inverts to breed and raise. The parents are monogomis so they may not pare up and they may kill eachother in a fight. If you do manage to pair some, and breed them, their offspring have a unbelievably long larval stage, and they must be separated or they will eat eachother. Also setting up a system for raising larval inverts is rather tricky all in itself.

Suffice to say, yes it can be done, is it worth it... maybe once you have the setup it could be practial do to their high value and many offspring... but at the same time unbelieveably labour intencive.
 
Kevin8888;4009239; said:
First I'm not trying to discurage you, as I am very pro breeding as its better for the wild reefs if we can captive breed more speacies I personaly am building a tank purly to attempt to breed tangs (which is currently almost impossible), but there are things you need to know first.

Yes it is possible, would I recomend it to someone who has never bred fish let alone inverts? No.

Mantis shrimp are probably one of the hardest inverts to breed and raise. The parents are monogomis so they may not pare up and they may kill eachother in a fight. If you do manage to pair some, and breed them, their offspring have a unbelievably long larval stage, and they must be separated or they will eat eachother. Also setting up a system for raising larval inverts is rather tricky all in itself.

Suffice to say, yes it can be done, is it worth it... maybe once you have the setup it could be practial do to their high value and many offspring... but at the same time unbelieveably labour intencive.

I was just wondering didn't say I was gonna
 
Just thought I'd be thurough haha, plus I don't want people attempting to breed unless they realize the effort behind it, its not something to do lightly, unlike breeding mollies or guppies or other fresh water fish, its an extreamly complex proccess that is highly demoralizing when more then half the offspring don't survive for more then a few hours, and raising the offspring is the hardest and often long process.
 
I had a peacock in a 20L for about a year. He was doing fine until his shell got stuck when he molted. I had about 20lb of live rock. Don't stack the rock just put it on about 2in of live sand. he will dig a race track under the rock and zip around. If he wants to get through a hole that is too small he will smash the hole bigger so he fits through. Real easy to keep I feed him market shrimp and a gols fish every two weeks or so. real fun to watch
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