Lets see them- FMTS

flyyyguy · #1 07/17/2007, 04:16 PM

full mantis tank shots, and of your mantis if you like.......please list what kind if you do post a pic of your mantis

Im starting a mantis tank and just looking for ideas.....so an opportunity for you all to show off

DanInSD · #2 07/17/2007, 06:10 PM

Mine looks a bit like algae soup right now. I'll post when it looks a little better

G.SMITHII · #3 07/18/2007, 11:26 AM

This Is BANE

and this is his tank

ENraged · #4 07/18/2007, 11:46 AM

How large of a tank is that?

G.SMITHII · #5 07/18/2007, 11:51 AM

18 gallon AGA

ENraged · #6 07/18/2007, 12:23 PM

Cool

Lehman · #7 07/18/2007, 12:45 PM

Im wondering when the magician of that tank is going to make that goby disappear.

G.SMITHII · #8 07/18/2007, 12:56 PM

they honestly tolorate eachoer suprisingly well. somtimes they sit right next to eachother.

i never got my hopes up, but they've been homies since march.

but yea, for that reason 18.99 is about the top of my fish budget in Mr. Banes Tank.

Lehman · #9 07/18/2007, 04:19 PM

Well I plan on adding a clown to my mantis tank thats cycling right now but im getting him for free so I will let you know how that turns out

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Lehman · #10 07/18/2007, 04:21 PM

On more question. How did you attach your corals so the mantis wont get ahold of them? I am going to order a coral pack or 2 off of Liveaquaria (shrooms & zoas) and they come attach to small rocks so I was wondering what glue would be best to do a rock to rock attachment.

G.SMITHII · #11 07/18/2007, 04:38 PM

this is only my personal experience, and i attribute it to the fact that Smithii's hollow out a piece of LR, opposed to digging and reinforcing a burrow, but Bane pretty much doesnt do much landscaping.

But he is quite the little stone mason

my corals were all pretty much forced by hand and wedged and stuck into the LR and allowed to attach themselves.
which took time. and some usually do fall and such every once in a while. but its no biggy.

But.... And this is huge, if i had it to do over, i would have drilled my LR and used the acrylic pillars and the underwater cement stuff to do my rock work in a perminat, frag friendly fasion.

miztic · #12 07/20/2007, 03:58 PM

This thread needs more pictures

here's my little mantis home:

flyyyguy · #13 07/20/2007, 04:03 PM

Sweet Miztic and G smitthi.

This thread DOES need more pictures.....unless you are the only two guys who really even have mantis tanks.

G.SMITHII · #14 07/20/2007, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by miztic
This thread needs more pictures here's my little mantis home:

PROPS

G.SMITHII · #15 07/23/2007, 12:24 PM

fine, ill post more then!!

G.SMITHII · #16 07/23/2007, 12:25 PM

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what? lets see some more!!!

MDeth · #17 07/23/2007, 10:19 PM

HA! Bet you didn't expect that

It is temporary! My Jalli 8G will be coming late this week or early next.

lfduty · #18 07/24/2007, 02:46 AM

Nice

yankeereefer · #19 07/24/2007, 03:44 PM

nice tanks everyone - I'll take updated pics of my tanks and post tonight

miztic - any problems with the chaeto in the display? I forget who it was, but someone here had an issue where his mantis got a mess of it tangled in it's face and I think ultimately died.

I had chaeto in my displays for awhile till I saw that. I also didn't care for the little strands getting caught up in my AC fuge intake.

G.SMITHII · #20 07/24/2007, 04:10 PM

a mantis being taken out by macro algea? poor thing, sounds like natural selection if you ask me...

but i had the same beef with it not staying where i wanted it, and moving towards an outtake.

so i rearranged stuff so that stuck to the outtake is where i want it. if you look at my tank, in the top middle i got a baseball size chunk of the stuff stuck to my outtake, now it just stays put

justinl · #21 07/24/2007, 07:12 PM

i think you're talking about mattyice's C. dubia. he had two, only one made it. the other had algae growing on its face which didnt allow it to molt (rhizomes had penetrated the shell).

yankeereefer · #22 07/24/2007, 08:01 PM

thx justin - it was matty that I was thinking of

G.SMITHII · #23 07/25/2007, 12:13 PM

Quote:

the other had algae growing on its face which didnt allow it to molt (rhizomes had penetrated the shell)....

so then it wasn't macro algae?

justinl · #24 07/25/2007, 01:47 PM

oh it certainly was macro, it looked like the poor thing had a crazy moustache. i believe a lack of habitat and exposure to very strong light (in the lfs) allowed the macro to get a death grip on the C. dubia's face.

dbrooks1440 · #25 07/25/2007, 01:49 PM

This is Sushi in her 100g ghetto garage tank. The Domino damsel that shares the tank with her actually stays in physical contact with her...