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[smellsfishy]

Mantis anyone. After months of kringing at evey click, and hours of work i gotem out. How can anything so colorful be such a problem. Maybe now my snails will come down from the top of the tank, and the Peppermint shrimp can eat the aptasia, in stead of disappearing/dieing.

[Flusher]

Any idea what kind of mantis it is? How big is it?

Here's a site where you might be able to identify it:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/

I'd probably take it, but I'm a little too far away to pick it up... :cry:
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[smellsfishy]

i thought i posted a pic, i'll try again. turns out though that the clicking hasn't gone away. I either have another in there or it's my regal tang wacking his tail against the glass. ????I'm in theory mode for now.

[Psyire]

Nice Mantis

[Skimmer Juice]

Yes a very cool shrimp, if you were in calgary I would take him for sure.

[Snappy]

i thought i posted a pic, i'll try again. turns out though that the clicking hasn't gone away. I either have another in there or it's my regal tang wacking his tail against the glass. ????I'm in theory mode for now.
I brightened it up for you a bit, I could hardly see it. Very cool by the way.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/mantis.jpg

[Renegade]

hmm what is needed to keep one i have a 20g set up with come cured rock waitnig to go into my 120g but thats going to be awhile still

Kyle

i might be interested in taking him

[Flusher]

It looks like my G. smithii. Chances are, it won't get much bigger than 4" at any rate. It should do okay in a 5 gallon tank minimum.

All it needs is a cycled tank with rock to explore and to make a home in. They only need to eat a couple or a few times per week. Mine eats thawed frozen krill from a straw. It also likes hermit crabs and snails.

More info here:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=37
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[Coldwater]

Eh, I think it looks more like G. ternatensis. I had a G. ternatensis for a while and they have the bump/spike on their ass (sorry I dont know the scientific term). The G. smithii on the other hand are flat back there. But ya they dont get any bigger than 4". Wicked little guys.

Matt

[justinl]

hm, old thread. oh well whatever. anyways it's an N oerstedii. the tail (telson) lacks a pink bump that a G smithii has.