Peacock mantis shrimp:starting 20gal first salt

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fishy12

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What is a good food source for mantis peacock shrimp. Would blood worms work or not?

Setup:
Filter-Ehiem 2215
lighting-dual HO T5
Heater-Idk of any(if you know any good heaters fill me in)
Skimmer- Aqua Euro Nano tank protein skimmer
Residents:One peacock mantis shrimp
Live rock- where ever its cheap
coral-from my lfs(what are some good ones to make the peacock and tank look amazing?)
P.S. I heard "condy+mantis tanks are a whole new kind of awesome" Mad Bob but what is condy????
 
what do you guys think about the plan and feeding....?
 
fishy12;3653245; said:
what do you guys think about the plan and feeding....?
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oh yeah that setup sounds good but bloodworms are usually fed to FW fish... i've haven't heard of feeding bloodworms to SW fish...
 
One last thing to adress i heard that peacocks+mantis shrimp overall can break a regular glass tank..... So i found a site that sells acrylic tanks(nowhere near me does). Here r the prices 29gal-$45. Now do i rlly need a acrylic tank or not? It is also another 20$ to ship. Now do i rlly need a acrylic tank for them or not? Because i will be loking at 65$ for the tank and maybe hood.
 
yes but acrylic is harder to break(i have heard)
 
I've kept numerous mantis shrimp before. They are best kept in a tank ALONE. Nothing else in with them, just a tank 10 gallons and up, live sand, and live rock. That's the best setup I have found. You can keep them with corals, but only if your filthy rich and willing to replace tons of dead ones. These guys eat any kind of inverts they can find. Though when fed well mine usually ignored corals, they still killed off quite a few. This was a few years back when I had a nano tank and a unknown hitchhiker that came in on some live rock, a mantis shrimp. Just feed them crabs, clams, silversides, and well, more crabs. I find thawed blood worms too small for these guys to care. Shrimp worked well too. I've heard of them breaking tanks, and I wouldn't be surprised. The clacking these guys do to kill prey is LOUD. Mine never did damage to my glass tanks.
 
so wld like walmart shrimp pieces work? no perservatives? And your sayin a 20g glass wld be ok? And one final thing i knw anemomies sting fish but wld the mantis shrimp be ok with him? I might also try a little coral with the live rock too
 
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