My mantis shrimps

[venwu225]

Here are some of pictures I took of my mantis shrimps:

G.glaburous

Gonodactylaceus ternatensis

G.chiragra

 

[iheartfishies]

Oh they're neat!!
and colorful!
Or is that just the corals?!
Their pinchers scare me, aren't you nervous cleaning your tank?

 

[guppy]

Beauties, they make you bleed yet?

 

[mkpeters6]

nice mantis' and nice pics you got a pretty good collection of them

are they in seperate tanks?

 

[I3u11he4d]

Those are cool,ya always hear of people trying to get rid of them not keepin them.I wonder why?I mean besides the "being shot by a 22."and "breaking the glass" reasons.Are they in acrylic tanks or what?

 

[mon]

nice nice... they indeed camoflague well...

 

[venwu225]

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

The animals are of course, in separate enclosures. The GT has a 20, GC has a 10, and the GP has a 10 as well. All tanks are nano reefs. And the pinchers are actually dactyls that carries a calcified hitting surface.

They are very powerful, the green gc left a neat dent on my middle finger
nail that hurt like a mother****er.

And when i clean the tank they all stalk me, but in a very secretive mode. Essentially you have NO idea when or where they are going to strike.
Its just all the sudden from somewhere: " Bam" and I scream like a wuss
and grimence in pain.

Other than that, they are extremely personable and do recognize me and my
roommate.

Finally, they are all kept in class tanks, it takes a fairly large species to punch
through class. My are all around 3-4 inches.

 

[guppy]

Very cool shrimps. where they hard to find? they are not something I see for sale.

 

[softturtle]

A while back, I had one try to attack me at a lfs. I was looking at some fish when I heard a loud clicking noise, looked down to see a 6 in. shrimp trying to get me through the tank.

 

[lizardfishman]

nice shrimps. how did you get them? i've seen some wild ones but dont try to catch them for obvious reasons.