i was in my float tube in Balboa Bay down here in cali, and one crwled on my leg, i had no clue what it was so i netted it and isliced throught the net, after about 15 minutes of "fighting" with it, i got it on my hook and used it for bait. caught a 3 ft grey smoothhound.
it was red and orange tho, no blues or purples like yours.
Beautiful shrimp. Have never seen any that were as nicely colored as yours though. If I were you I would put some live fish in there, some goldfish or something. Watch them murder it and rip it in half. Good luck with them. Watch the fingers around them.
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thanks for all the reply, the stomatopods are actually not shrimps but more related to isopods, and they make wonderful interactive companions.
To each's own, most monsterfish we keep in the forum are pretty much: "bastards and killed the other fish in tha aquarium." But we all still love them with a burning passion.
My shrimps actually do not prefer fish, and choosing crustceans and gastropods over them.
And I never feed fresh water anything to saltwater anything, always sticks with fresh to fresh, salt to salt. Well, except krill and prawns for predators I guess, but never goldfish to anything, those are disease vectors and a sure way to complicate your monsterfishkeeping experience.
i hear mantis shrimp in my tanks, but never see them. haven't had any fish disappear lately though, since i decided to stick to species who stay out of the rock most of the time
I have a mantis shirmp, he is real neat. Most people do nto like them because they get them in live rock and do not know it. Next thing you know you are missing fish, snails and about anything that lives in your tank. Thats why people consider them pests.
I read about them and decided that i needed one. I just went to the LFS and told them the next time they get one in to give me a call, wasn't 2 days later that someone brought one in that was riding along with the live rock they bought.
I have him in a 6G nano cube. They are neat to watch when you put a crab in there. The last time I fed him as the crab went to grab him while he was attacking it, he knocked off both of its big claws. After that the crab was defenceless and the mantis popped his shell open with a couple hits.
What kind of camera are you using to get them pics, they look great. I have a Nikon D70 and I am tryingt o find a good lens for taking closeup pics like that of my fish.
