Anyone want this loveable creature?

[[JWS]wasabi]

Hey all, I got this rascal out of my tank finally, she just molted so I think she was somehow easier to catch, or maybe I was just lucky this time.

Anyway, if someone wants her I will send her out, maybe for some kind of trade? but I need advice on shipping method cause I dont want you to end up with a mantis-popsickle. (its snowing in the midwest right now)

Otherwise she gets to hang out at the local store with all the other overpriced sea creatures.

- Female red stomper mantis.
( I know shes female cause she had an egg cluster from back when I had a pair and they umm... well... they liked each other a lot.):D
- she pushing on 2" right now (fully stretched out)
-bright green and blue markings on the smasher claws, the rest is a rich red, and some little bright white streaks on her antanne.
(i dont know if you actually call them antanne, but thats what they look like.)

Somebody give her a good home!!! A FREE TUPPERWARE with every purchase!!! :p

http://www.erikkarasyk.com/wasabi/mantis.jpg

[wdt2000]

I sent you an email.

Will

[racer340]

Im in Jersey and interested in it.Ill pick it up if it doesnt go to the previous poster.Thanks

[racer340]

If it doesnt go to wdt Ill come pick it up.

[frogspawn]

So glad you posted this pic. That looks like what we finally caught in our tank yesterday. We put it in what was going to be a nano tank to see what happens.

[msjn771]

I would love to take her off you hands please e-mail me at msjn771@cs.com

[[JWS]wasabi]

sorry but this post started a while ago and I sent the mantis to WDT.

BTW, post some pix of her WDT

-glad someone could use the pic to ID your mantis :)

[wdt2000]

She is doing great. She is out in the open all the time. Well I would not say in the open put in her macro algae patch. But I have had no luck getting a full body shot of her. Or even a good shot of her head. I think she knows when I am trying to catch her on film. At any rate she has changed colors. She is no long solid red. But instead a mixture of colors. Mainly bright green. Almost looks like a peacock mantis but then again she does not. Also every picture I take of her comes out fuzzy. That is even using a tripod. I think the reason it comes out fuzzy is due to the lighting.
I will try of the course of the weekend to get some good picture.

http://junuta.homestead.com/files/Mantis.jpg

http://junuta.homestead.com/files/Mantishead.jpg

http://junuta.homestead.com/files/Mantishead2.jpg

[wdt2000]

Those are all the same animal.

[[JWS]wasabi]

WOW!
thats awesome. Im so glad she made it, looks like shes happy as a clam over there. Your tank seems like its helped her colors quite a bit too. Thanks for the pictures, keep me posted!

[Narcissus Narcosis]

that top picture is the same mantis i have. can someone tell me anything about it? i have it in a 5.5 gallon tank. i mainly want to know her max. size.

[[JWS]wasabi]

hmm.. I dont really know that much about her, except shes smart and likes to crarck shells all the time... at least in my tank she did, shes in a much better home now. maybe shes a bit more chill.

as far as species, I dont know.
She a smasher that hitched a ride with 2 other mantis on all the rock that I bought from tampabaysaltwater.com so shes a native florida gulf critter. I actually had a mating pair in my tank and didnt know it until I gave away the male. Then a week later I noticed the egg clutch that the female was holding. when the eggs hatched and all larve went to the surface when the light was on I realized it had happened before. (I just didnt know what it was) I could have become a mantis breeder!!! I hear its very hard to do that tho...