This little 1" Neogonodactylus oerstedii was given to me by the LFS in September. I set up a little 2.5 for him with some Anthelia, local macros and shoal grass, will probably upgrade him to a 10gl. Snagged a 2 x 13w linear pc landscape light with polished reflector for viewing, it has crappy yellow 2700Ks in it now but a 6700 and actinic are on the way, hopefully the combo will look good and work well. The Anthelia and Botryocladia certainly don't care about the spectrum one bit, also scored a piece of rubble that ended up having a decent clove polyp colony on it which seems to be doing great.
These images of the mantis came out very warm, so imagine it's coloring with less contrast...
Parameters have been great throughout the startup. Weekly 1/2g changes, RO/DI topoffs, got 10ppm nitrates down to 5ppm. After the new bulbs are in next week, I'll give the glass it's first good cleaning and post another pic.
Here is a video of a live hermit feeding, note that the extraction is not shown here, only some shell smacking and tugging. It's a large file for close up observation, which I think is worth the load wait, but if it doesn't load for anyone just ask and I'll whip up a shorter one. And if you want to see the extraction just ask. In hind site, I think I'll stick with prey that doesn't take as long to kill.
Mantis vs Hermit