mantis shrimp

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you saw slyie's Grimreefers.com video. i have two mantis/crayfish videos on my comp, need to get neo to upload those too. theres a grimreefers.com banner on one of them tho :P
 
I have kept a small green one - have absolutley no idea what it really was. Most LFS will just get them in as 'mantis shrimp', irregardless of size or color it seems. I got mine around 2", threw it in my sump (I have live rock in it) and saw it 4 times. Pieces of shrimp and other meats dissappeared for about a month, but eventually I started noticing that the fireworms were the only consumers..never saw it again, and I can only assume it is gone..

I did see another 2" inch 'blue' mantis shrimp at the LFS the other day, and in the same tank was a 3 inch yellow-head jawfish, and a few hermits..The mantis was out and about, didn't attack the other inhabitants at all. I personally wouldn't trust them with anything though.
 
Rui said:
I have kept a small green one - have absolutley no idea what it really was. Most LFS will just get them in as 'mantis shrimp', irregardless of size or color it seems. I got mine around 2", threw it in my sump (I have live rock in it) and saw it 4 times. Pieces of shrimp and other meats dissappeared for about a month, but eventually I started noticing that the fireworms were the only consumers..never saw it again, and I can only assume it is gone..

I did see another 2" inch 'blue' mantis shrimp at the LFS the other day, and in the same tank was a 3 inch yellow-head jawfish, and a few hermits..The mantis was out and about, didn't attack the other inhabitants at all. I personally wouldn't trust them with anything though.
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The few people I know who keep them on purpose got them in large shipments of liverock by accident and keep them alone in nano tanks
 
I love these guys but they kill every thing, Banded Mantis Shrimp from Coral sea, Salt Water only, 8-10" , They can break your glass, they can break your heart, thrd hand story I heard was a 10" killing a 12" puffer.
 
I have two in a 100gal reef. I love them.my snails feel otherwise. I have feed them by hane a number of times, They are only about 3" long though. Both are smashers I got from LR.com as hitchikers. The cool thing is how ofter they change colors based on which rock they are in at the time.
 
that's awesome. As far as you can tell, are your two guys going to stay around that size, or will they get bigger?
 
They will get bigger, but not as big as the Peacock or the other spearers in the gulf.

piranha45.....
I love your avitar. I had a 7 inch Red Terrror fall victim to my Red Tail cat. Ultimately the Red Terror got the last word. The cat ended up regurgitating him up two days later and subsequently had stomach injuries. That good old cichlid dorsal fin only folds one way.
I miss them both.
 
:uhoh:


That ain't a red terror, bro :shakehead


Amphilophus urophthalmus, female. Fresh-caught by user wckedmidas in a southern Florida canal.

Yeah, and you always though festae couldn't be approached in terms of beauty? eh? EH? :woot:
 
Thanks for the ID lesson. :lipsseale

I too have caught a few fish and added to my tank (green sunfish, cra..ppie, bluegill and Red ear). Just wish I lived in a warmer climate so I could add some free SW fish. Now I have a 100 gal reef that I have caught some sand crabs at the beech and added to the reef.

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