Finally got the Peacock Mantis

reef diver

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Originally Posted by blizz75
awesome! im thinking about turning my 10g or 26 bow into a mantis tank. Would you mind tellin me how much he was?

Go for my avatar for ur mantis n. wennare too small to crack glass, and beautiful too, peacocks can crack and even shatter glass, im gonna make a refuge/mantis tank with a n. wennare in it around christmas
 

reef diver

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Originally Posted by mopar9012
pretty cool. How does it "smash" things?

Ah yes the smashing is done with an appendage on their fore arm, which is a hard section, they can swing this at a shell with the speed of a 23 caliber bullet. There are 2 types of mantis, smasher and spearer, they do their respective things, peacocks are smasher types. Speares instead of the bony piece, have a long barbed "

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" Smshers have this too, bu it is too small to use to

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all but the smallest fish, it is used to cur invert meat, once it is free from the shell. Srry crox unless gallons of water on the floor is entertainment, putting fish in a peacocks tank does not mean entertainment.. :hilarious
 
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