In the meantime does anybody have advice for feeding a very small mantis? He's housed with a lion so any kind of meat I put in on a feeding stick gets ambushed by the lion. Should I try to get a little piece of silverside meat stuck on the live rock or something?
Hey dude, just a word of warning, mantis' and lions for some reason seem to be like mortal enemies.
they wont always "search" eachother out but an encounter is inevitable, and almost garuntees a casualty.
soo, first, dont feed the lion near the mantis.
then maybe give the lion somethin he has to work on for a minute, and quickly turkeybaste the mantis
In a Days, have you given any thought to how your going to catch this mantis to move it to another tank?
Post a Pic!
also, i just wanna counter sink a nail here, there is no MEDIA in the cannister right?
You're just using it for flow and extra water capacity, right?
just from experience, with the addition carnage that a mantis tank harbors, anything that can trap nitrates, will.
i would suggest replacing any empty space in a hob or cannister filter with LR rubble. it wont "saturate" with detritus and other biological wastes, making then inaccesable to yer NO cycle
If it were to dig out my old 10 gallon tank would a mantis shrimp do ok in it? What would i be required to buy equipment wise?
But back to the original question Out of the hundreds of species of mantis, there are only a few species that get large enough to do so. These are ; Odontodactylus scyllarus, Gonodactylaceus ternatensis, Gonodactylaceus graphurus, Gonodactylaceus chiragra and Hemisquilla californiensis.
So i want to keep a mantis in my 24 gallon nano....
But now im scared after reading some horror stories of keeping a mantis (I wanted to keep a peacock) in a glass aquarium.....
I mean how likely is it that he will actually break the glass?
Im so far only really interested in peacocks.
Not sure what to do!!!!!!