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The link doesnt work but I did find it. I may do this instead of going to the LFS. I was thinking about how you said new comers could basically die from the difference between their water and my water. I added a fiddler crab and some hermits two weeks ago and they survived and are still alive...

Ya they do it for free but Ill pay to get the right answers. What is the online place? Never heard of it before.

I dont know the TDS of my water. Sorry. I dont have any devices that release "good smelling stuff" as my brother puts it. Most I use is Febreeze every once in a while. I'll have to take my water in for a test to a LFS. Should I? I will have them test just about everything. Sorry about the PM...

API testing kit. Ok here I'll throw out some info. Ive been trying to narrow the problem down and all I can see is the companies I used fault. I use tap water for water changes and TO but I have been for almost a 8 months with no ill effect. *knock on wood* I used a water conditioner and let...

Just wow. Im so pissed and angry and frustrated and sad. Ive got a Tomatoe clown, 3 strip damsel, 20+ snails, large and small hermits, a fiddler and Emerald crab. Calcium has always been like that. I didnt add anything except fish food for the fish. This pic was taken 10sec before my large...

Well its upside down, lathargic, and when I use the net to move it, the water flow turns it upside down. It is just moving back and forth. Now what.

Good to know. I put my feeding stick in to see what he would do and he grabbed it then lets it go. Doesnt seem too interested in anything really. Lights on/off?

Ouch. I feel the Mantis pain. Right now, it looks ok. Now signs of it but I will have to get a better look. He didnt curl into a ball when I put him in but he is just kinda hangin' out. He moves his eyes, appendages, whole body around a little but not too much. He has been in the tank for about...

Mine is deffinetly not lacking color. My camera wouldnt even come close to show you the vibrance of his/her's tail feathers. I really think the last Mantis was sick to begin with. He had alot lighter green tint to his shell and his tail feathers were less than this one's. My 3 stripe damsel is...

Ok he is in and DIDNT freak out

Well my new Peacock came. He is gorgeous but only 2''. Other one was a good 4-5'' so they size difference is large. He is still very vibrant and colorful. Im not taking any pictures until its in the tank and moving. Luckily when I picked up the bag after yanking it from the Fedex man that what...

I will *hopefully* be having a medium sized Peacock Mantis coming to me tomorrow around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. It was sent from California tonight to Arizona tomorrow. It will arrive in a 2'' thick styrafoam box, being double wrapped, with a heat pack still warm. I will be given a eye dropper...

What kind of flow and lighting does it need? Does it need to be attatched to a rock or does it need to be free floating?

Anyone here ordered live goods from ***? Im getting alot of mixed comments from them. Some of you know that I ordered my first Mantis from them and it ended up dying. I cant pinpoint why but some say shipping and handling stress. I decided to buy another because I have credit there but am scared...

Ive read a couple different places that Spaggehti algae is the best you can get for a refugium. Thats what I ordered. Good choice?

Well I have decided to stray away from murky waters, so to speak. I just ordered it offline when I ordered my new mantis. It was free, so what the heck

The last Mantis I got was about 3.5'' and was double bagged, half black, in a cup with holes, about half way with water, half with air, and a heat pack still warm. I do live in AZ and its been around 80-90 here. I drip acclimated it for about an hour but Im thinking that may have been too short...

Which size Peacock Mantis does better being shipped? I just ordered a medium one 1.5''-3.5'' because the large one I ordered last time died. Is a medium sized one less/more likely to live during shipping?

I understand and appreciate the warning. Ill have to ask if I can see what the sump looks like. I doubt he would be honest and say that there are parasites in the algae. I'll just have to find out tomorrow. Thanks

Im not sure if it is or not. He says he grows it himself. I would think that since he costanly grows it from the same group, it wouldnt have a parasite but im not 100%. Is there any way to clean it of any parasites?