Humans: 3 Mantis: 0

[anative]

Finally caught the other two. One fell out of the rock right into a towell when I took it out of the tank and they other cam eout when I poured soda water into his hole.

I know some of you like them for pets and I have to admitt that they started to grow on me but I was worried about them eating everything else as they got bigger.

Jon

[Fcamdog]

Since I have gone out and caught everything for my tank I don't feel bad if a mantis eats something. There are so many tiny crabs and I feed regularly with live brine shrimp that they haven't killed anything I didn't want them to. Maybe you should keep one? It's always a good reason for another tank, maybe a grow out tank?

[Death Shrimp99]

Can you post some pics? Or tell us what species it is, you can identify here - http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/pics.htm