I have two smashers, a small (N wenn) and a large (peacock) - two separate tanks. I ask my LFS to give me the non-reef safe hermit crabs they find as hitchikers in live rock or that occasionally arrive in shipments. I also feed live fiddler crabs and olive nerite (brackish) snails. Both the small and the large mantis eat them.
I am a North Carolina female too, and I like mantises. But I also like venomous fish, eels, triggers and snakes.
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