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Anyone up for an ID (lots o pics)?
Looking for a name and some details about a little hitchhiker I found at the LFS and brought home (on a trial basis) to add some 'spark' to my reef. A little danger makes things interesting, no?
Anyway, found her under a freshly received colt softie (attached to a rock-frag) a few weeks back. Kept her there in a critter-feeper, within the reef system, and stocked it a couple weeks ago with a very tiny blue-leg hermit, a small stomatella hitchhiker to test its diet. Both the snail and the hermit were alive and well today when I decided to take her (the Mantis) home. During that time I have supplied her with a few forzen brine or a piece of krill which she excitedly hauled under a piece of rock (apparently she's a shy eater). On with the pictures now... This first shot is to establish basic form looking down on her, o apologies for the otherwise crappy shot. Pretty boring looking, eh? Check this next shot out then: Close up of her front section: A curtsey and another look at the front (other side): She does enjoy swimming and in the critter-keeper would often swim to the top and then hang out there: Back half: She isn't even as long as a quarter stretched out, so she may still be a juvenile... Thanks in advance,
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aka - Chevy, Scott, DM, etc... Zoanthid collector, Monitpoa sp. afficianado, Yuma snob and fan of the Mantis family. |
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