mantis upgrade.

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  1. frkid247

    frkid247 Sea Dragon

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    would a 26 gallon bowfront be big enough for my Odontodactylus japonicus i wanna get a bigger tank before she gets too big.
     
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  3. patrick824

    patrick824 Montipora Digitata

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    yeah that would be good... glass or acrylic?
     
  4. frkid247

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    glass. i would reinforce the bottom. but idk im thinking of stopping the reef and putting it in my 30 gallon reef tank... and then doing shrooms and stuff in the 15. idk yet im so torn though. i wanna do a reef tank but i love my mantis so much! so still lookin for my tank for her.
     
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    patrick824 Montipora Digitata

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    why not get a 55 acrylic... put a baffle in the middle with weirs in the middle and on top... and just separate him from another compartment that you can use for something else like a octo or something :) (thats what im thinking about doing)
     
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    Put the mantis in the reef ;) just keep the cuc stocked
     
  7. frkid247

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    i would but i dont have any money right now. i might be able to get a 55 gallon tank with like 1/4 inch thick glass... which should be plenty.
    haha thought about it... but i have two houses i live at and she is at my moms and my mom has gotten attached to Miss Mantee ( my mantis) so i think i might put her in my living room and then do another mantis in my room but get a smaller species like a Haptosquilla banggai or something else rare so i can have 2 rare mantis shrimps!