just picked up a peacock!!!

[BALISTIK]

great success!!! hes about 3 inches, very nice i will have pics up soon!


my hydrometer is reading at 1.027 at 75 degrees. Is this an addaquet range for this guy before i acclimate? on roys list it said 33 or so psu. i tried looking for the conversion but no luck. can any1 help me out?

ps, one of my buddies says peacocks like a higher salinity but i want to be sure. thanks yall!

[abrahamcho]

wow thats high. THat is no bueno bro... it was to be around 1.023~1.024. MIne was about to die when i put it in ar 1.027...

[Gonodactylus]

I am to keep my animals at 1.024 to 1.025. 1.027 is high, but animals could live in it. The problem is the osmotic shock they would suffer in transferring them to the hypersaline water. The easiest solution is to add enough deionized water to bring down the tank two parts per thousand.

I'm not sure where the information comes from that O. scyllarus does best in hypersaline water, but in my experience keeping them and collecting them at many locations, there is nothing that suggests this.

Roy

[Engine 7]

35 ppm=1.025 if I remember correctly. I am not sure how a mantis would like high salinity. Oceans dont raise/lower that much.

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thanks for all the help yall. i did some more researching and before i acclimated him, i got it to just under 1.025

hes very active already moving things around, so fascinating!!


i will have some pics up very soon!!

[ArgonDreams]

Originally posted by Engine 7
35 ppm=1.025 if I remember correctly. I am not sure how a mantis would like high salinity. Oceans dont raise/lower that much.

This isn't the complete truth here. Work into the Salinity and ocean changes is still very much in the works. In fact SSS measurements worldwide (and specific to the indo-pacfic) show it varies wildly from 32-37 ppt. Including rapid changes from some studies to the next.

So in short, collection aream is the best measure of where a specific species will survive best in. Find out where it was roughly collected and compare to the salinity of that area. However as a general rule 1.023-1.025 is probably the safest without hard knowledge of your animal.

[Mr31415]

35ppt = SG of 1.0269

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