Mantis Shrimp-Another Great Myth Busting Article

amcarrig · 12-06-2004, 04:11 AM

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-12/nftt/index.htm

Craig Manoukian · 12-06-2004, 05:03 AM

Great article AC! I've never had one but my research indicated most of the information in the article. Mantis are truly awesome to watch in action!

amcarrig · 12-06-2004, 05:13 AM

I just hope to convince some folks that they're not as evil as some make them out to be.

If you have the opportunity, definitely set up a nano tank for one. It's the most interesting animal I've ever kept!

hoodoo · 12-06-2004, 07:20 AM

well, when I got the second big load of live rock I talked to the guy there about my mantis. He showed me some. Took him out with his hand to feed them. He showed me his normal tanks where there are mantis shrimps in every single one of them. He feeds them like he feeds his corals and they have never harmed a fish or anything in his tanks. He sais, sometimes a snail disappears, but not often.
But that could be because of the kind of mantis there are in the area their rock comes from.

the only problem I have is that I still don't know, where he is (or where they are). Nothing got killed in my tank, not even a snail or a hermit. I think I saw one the other day. In the same hole where a big porcelain crab lives. I'll watch that hole carefully. This would be a good spot because it's in the front very easy to access and so I can feed it easily.

ah, right, and there are shrimps running around that area all the time. They sit under the same rock and the hole goes through, so they are pretty much sharing the hole. They don't seem to care either.

hoodoo · 12-06-2004, 05:44 PM

and finally I found one of my "clickers". In just the spot I was talking about. And it is a pistol shrimp. But there is also coming clicking from other spots, and also clicks that come in 2 or 3 very close together. Sounds like a mantis to me.

Apophis924 · 12-29-2004, 01:09 PM

I have a 20 gal VHO nano and i have a 5.5 gallon with a peacock manits shrimp in it. I spend more enjoying my mantis then the 20. My lady who thinks i spend too much on live rock , liter meter pump, and corals has no proiblem with me paying 3 $ each for fiddler crabs so she can watxch the manits eat them! Not to mention she is always asking me to break up more rubble rock and throw it in the manits tank so she can watch him buikld and rebuild his tunnel. Hell if she does not here the POP POP of him killing a snail or a crab or construvction she thinks somnething i s wrong.! (and guys yes we may be the King of the catsle but the lady rules the house ) They are awesome and IF anyone has one and thinks they are a pest give me an email or a holla r I'll take him.

hoodoo · 12-29-2004, 03:51 PM

well, you might be right that they are interesting, but it also depends on where they are. If you have a reef tank with snails and shrimp and small fish in them, than it's not the best to have one in you tank I would say.

Apophis924 · 12-29-2004, 10:44 PM

another basic reply based on the *my humble opinion. seriously if u do NOT own or have a mantis tank and you are just going by "what you heard" or have downloaded from a web site then you got nothing to say or add *that is of any consequence. *I really want to hear from those that OWN or have or are *raising mantis shrimps... as far as all of you so called "i heard,, and i read,, or found a "good" web site BS STFU,,,i am interested in REAL experience Not the ""i heards" or reads" or my friends friend sister's bothers uncle heard that.. *what ever give me str8 up reaL TIME first hand experience not the i heard;s..