Lets see them- FMTS

[Conductive]

whoops, meant to post in here

Just finished doing some rockscaping on my retrofitted eclipse 6. My P. ciliata used to get along with damsels, but has since decided she likes sushi after all.

[helipilot]

Very nice set-up. Beautiful mantis.

[surfnvb7]

here is my 10g mantis tank, home to a 3-4" Gonodactylaceus ternatensis (i think).

[lillurker]

thats an awesome looking mantis.

[Angel7989]

Awesome looking tank Conductive, Ive thought of putting rock up to the glass like that but i think not being able to clean it would drive me crazy haha

[Conductive]

Thanks folks. You're right about the cleaning angel, it's a bit of a pain even with a scrapper thing. I think ill look into getting one of those dish washing deals that i read are great for tank scubbing.

http://www.homemadesimple.com/sites/...sh_brush.shtml

killer mantis btw surfnvb!

[Angel7989]

hahaha,
i had one of those.
just don't drop it, won't work anymore after a good fall.

[dismalorb]

Originally posted by Gangsta Nemo
All very nice setups! Dismalorb very cool ,I also use macroalgaes in my mantis tanks. What else do you have for filtration? Do you supplement anything? Will post pics soon.

Hey GN! Sorry about the delayed response.

I use a Marineland Emperor 400 and I have a mixture of Seachem's Renew and Phosguard, along with some Matrix. The phosphates that don't get sucked up by the Phosguard get sucked up by the Macroalgae (along with nitrates). When it gets to be too much, I just pluck some out and give it to friends or throw it in my display tank refugium.

[Gangsta Nemo]

Hey Dismalorb

I use almost the same method for my O. Scyllarus tank.
Hang on back with polyfilter and phosguard are the only other means of filtration besides macro's and a aquaclear 30 for circulation. It works very well ,almost to well as that I harvest macro almost weekly. I do use reef trace every now and again.
It's like a stand alone fuge which I think is very helpful with the problem algaes. You see any pod depletion in your tank B/C of your O. Havanensis pair?

[dismalorb]

Oh nice! How big is your O. s.?

I haven't noticed much of a depletion, really. There's more in there than in my display tank refugium though! hehe.

I feed Selcon soaked Hikari Krill every other day as well. The havenenses (plural spelling?) go nuts every time they get fed, so I don't know if they snack occasionally on the pods or if they're food snobs and just prefer krill from the Krill God.

I must admit though, I do feed my pods. They get either a tiny shaving of Cyclop-eeze or a cube of the Hikari Spirulina Brine Shrimp every other day or so.

I do think that the macro-algae does wonders for the excess nutrients in the tank; I RARELY get algae-outbreaks!

[thor32766]

i love these tanks you guys have setup!! so cool to see people appreciate these awesome animals!

[Gangsta Nemo]

Hey Dismalorb

Yeah I guess I should do a lil more to cultivate my pods.
My O.S is about 5inches or so now. I'll throw some pics up very soon. The tanks doing great need some pics before it gets a lil over the hill. Jk

[dismalorb]

Here's a little video of my O. s., it's not the full tank shot though...

[Conductive]

Man, that thing has attitude! Very nice setup

[jeremyj0247]

Hey surfnvb7, I like your setup. what did you make the hob refuigm with. I am wanting to setup a mantis tank and i am looking for good ideas.

[surfnvb7]

Originally posted by jeremyj0247
Hey surfnvb7, I like your setup. what did you make the hob refuigm with. I am wanting to setup a mantis tank and i am looking for good ideas.

its an AC110 converted HOB filter. i just took out all the media trays etc....and then cut out an acrylic baffle and siliconed it in there. this is an old trick, i've had this HOB converted fuge for about 4 years.

you can find lots of people who do this on their nano tanks. just do a search on here or the nano reef dot com.

[dismalorb]

I really like that idea! A local (fellow mantis geek) friend of mine has a similar set-up with one of her HOB filters. It works great for her, and isn't too aesthetically intrusive.

The DIY mod is a much more economic route than those silly $300 HOB refugiums...

"DIY to the Rescue!"

[gemini aquarius(t)]

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there is a whole bunch of new tanks going up so lets see if we can gett all the FMTS in one thread/ maybe =]

[Toygrr]

Originally posted by Lehman
Im wondering when the magician of that tank is going to make that goby disappear.

hahaha, havnt had a good laugh today. Original (nice tanks by the way)