leigh
Active Member
hey,
just found a mantis. i know which rock he's in but i'm afraid to put my hands near him! how do i get the rock out?
er, okay, strike that, i got over my initial reaction of girliness and have removed the rock and seen the lil bugger swim circles in a bucket. how do i confirm this is a mantis. he's clear/white and all i really see of him is two googly eyes on long antenae like things. he moves super quick so i really don't get a good view of all of him, frankly i saw him simply because i was feeding my tank and a lil bolt shot out of a rock and grabbed some of the food. he was coexisting in a rock with a serpent starfish too, is this mantis like? I was under the impression that he'd eat the starfish before co-existing with it. I have heard popping all the time, but my stupid powerheads occasionally make popping sounds so I always figured it was that--(I'm deaf in one ear so I can't tell what direction sound comes from so I'm normally left making a best guess assumption). So all--what do you think--mantis or no? and what should i do with him now that i have him and his rock in a bucket?
(this would explain, however, why one of my fish jumped in the night a couple weeks ago--since all i had was a 3 fish school of bar gobies i was surprised that anything would scare one enough to make him jump!)
-leigh
just found a mantis. i know which rock he's in but i'm afraid to put my hands near him! how do i get the rock out?
er, okay, strike that, i got over my initial reaction of girliness and have removed the rock and seen the lil bugger swim circles in a bucket. how do i confirm this is a mantis. he's clear/white and all i really see of him is two googly eyes on long antenae like things. he moves super quick so i really don't get a good view of all of him, frankly i saw him simply because i was feeding my tank and a lil bolt shot out of a rock and grabbed some of the food. he was coexisting in a rock with a serpent starfish too, is this mantis like? I was under the impression that he'd eat the starfish before co-existing with it. I have heard popping all the time, but my stupid powerheads occasionally make popping sounds so I always figured it was that--(I'm deaf in one ear so I can't tell what direction sound comes from so I'm normally left making a best guess assumption). So all--what do you think--mantis or no? and what should i do with him now that i have him and his rock in a bucket?
(this would explain, however, why one of my fish jumped in the night a couple weeks ago--since all i had was a 3 fish school of bar gobies i was surprised that anything would scare one enough to make him jump!)
-leigh
