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CKreef
09/18/2006, 09:51 PM
Anyone interested in a mantis shrimp? I have had her for about 5 months in a tank. Very cool to watch!!! Have to get rid of her tearing down a tank. Species N. Wennare
rsteagall
09/19/2006, 08:59 AM
Male or female?

I have a female that has produced eggs 2 times now, but no male to fertilize. I need to check on compatabiltiy of these in close quarters. If its possible for them to co-exist, I'd be very interested.

-Ryan
wooglin
09/19/2006, 04:30 PM
I am interested if you dont find a taker.
CKreef
09/19/2006, 04:36 PM
Its a female she has laid eggs also
wooglin
09/19/2006, 04:37 PM
I have a species tank that is empty that would be good. Do you still want to let her go? If so I am interested.
rsteagall
09/19/2006, 07:44 PM
I'm passing on this one since its female. They would definitely kill each other.

Whoever gets it... they are really awesome. If you have a species specific tank, I feed mine 2x per week by splitting a frozen cube of plankton/krill into thirds. I feed using tongs. She has been in my 12g nano cube for about 6 months now along with some zoas and gsp. It doesn't look the best, but in the display I've created a cube using eggcrate and filled it with cheato. She likes to get inside this and play around. She also likes to dig....alot :P


I just took some pics and uploaded them of my mantis tank.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rsteagall/Mantis_tank
rsteagall
09/20/2006, 02:41 PM
I took half a day off to get my new blue jaw and I also bought some feeder guppies for my mantis (I need a name). I just popped one in and it took all of .5 seconds for it to get attacked and eaten. :P Pretty wicked though. It was smashed, nabbed and taken into her den. Cool stuff! :)
rsteagall
09/21/2006, 05:22 PM
wooglin, are you going to get this?
wooglin
09/22/2006, 06:35 AM
Yes working on Logistics.
Angela Short
09/22/2006, 09:23 AM
What ever happened to that crazy looking hairy crab I gave you Wooglin? Did he kill prey or did you ever feed him live stuff? He was huge!
wooglin
09/22/2006, 01:15 PM
He is no longer with us. I have his nicely preserved carcas with my collection that sits on the shelf above my 75.
Angela Short
09/22/2006, 02:50 PM
:lol: it was big enouph!
rsteagall
09/22/2006, 07:12 PM
something eat it or did it just die?