It's a 3 inch pink, brown and white Mantis Shrimp. Fed him 12 ghost shrimp last night they were gone by the morning. Any suggestions on keeping these cool critters... I know he is a smasher not a piercer because every once and a while he smashes the 10 gal plastic container he's in in the tank..
Just Bought a Mantis Shrimp
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even spearers will smash into a tank, in fact they're more likely to becuase they dig a lot deeper burrows in the sand. suggestion? get him out of the plastic container and into a tank w/ a couple inches of sand and some rock, don't put it under very intense lights and try to get a good id, that'll help you figure out what specific needs it has. heres a great site- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/
well he has to break through the plastic before he can break through the tank...i have an undulated trigger around 4.5 inchs outside the plastic container just waiting for an oppurtunity to eat the mantis...not sure how that one would go down. Thanks by the way for that site it's really helpful.
spotfin;1562016; said:
the mantis is in a 10 gal plastic tank inside my large glass tank which contains my undulated trigger...
Mantis shrimp are the worlds coolest creatures by the way... Yesterday I fed mine a fiddler crab... it ate the whole thing shell and all.. But it first killed the crab with one smack to the body, putting a hole right through it.
how tiny do you think a trigger has to be that you think it can't take a 3'' mantis?!?!!
that poor thing is trigger bait
that poor thing is trigger bait