Mantis Shrimp

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by shogun323
Hahaaa!!!! What can I say...... You speak the truth!!!!
I'm thinking about getting one, now I just got to run across an acrylic tank.
 

sepulatian

Moderator
Originally Posted by stdreb27
yeah, mantis keepers are like those nuts who have tarantulas, snakes and scorpions. They are kept in species tanks, and are mean little boogers.
Hey now, I had a snake and plan to get another and still have a scorpion.
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by sepulatian
Hey now, I had a snake and plan to get another and still have a scorpion.

ewww, do you feed the guy live mice?
 

sepulatian

Moderator
Originally Posted by stdreb27
ewww, do you feed the guy live mice?
The snake, Sepulatian was his name, ate rats. The scorpion, Scorpious, eats any kind of bug. He realy likes caterpillars. He holds them in his claws like a hot dog and eats them down
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by sepulatian
The snake, Sepulatian was his name, ate rats.
Well I guess it is probably a good thing you live in NY you have an unlimited supply.
I don't really mind snakes, just scorpions and spiders, just don't make sense to me. Mantis's are growing on me, just out of morbid facination with sea life.
 

t316

Active Member
Originally Posted by sepulatian
Hey now, I had a snake and plan to get another and still have a scorpion.

Yeah, I have a Python myself, but I was just taking his comment in stride, since this is a fish forum.
 

sepulatian

Moderator
Originally Posted by stdreb27
Well I guess it is probably a good thing you live in NY you have an unlimited supply.
I don't really mind snakes, just scorpions and spiders, just don't make sense to me. Mantis's are growing on me, just out of morbid facination with sea life.
I don't live in the city. Sepulatian never ate a sewer rat
Scorpious never bothers me. I do hate spiders though. Mantis are awsome and I love ornemental lobsters. Don't ask why spiders bother me because I have no idea, they just do.
 

sepulatian

Moderator
Originally Posted by T316
Yeah, I have a Python myself, but I was just taking his comment in stride, since this is a fish forum.

It was only a joke, come on now
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by T316
Yeah, I have a Python myself, but I was just taking his comment in stride, since this is a fish forum.

yes it was a joke. Just in case you were wondering. Find a scorpion in your shower every day and they loose their charm.
 

stdreb27

Active Member
I just read where that thing was almost 80 bucks, What are the livespans on them, I'd hate to buy one and it only last a few months or a year.
 

matt b

Active Member
Originally Posted by Vinnyl
Hey all,
Hope you'all had a good Xmas!!
I was checking my tank and found a 2'' mantis swimming around.... I didn't know I had one...it probably came with my LR....
Should I take him out of my tank? He is in my main tank (90 gal)??
Tks
so did u ever get him out? or a pic?
 

kjr_trig

Active Member
Originally Posted by sepulatian
I don't live in the city. Sepulatian never ate a sewer rat
Scorpious never bothers me. I do hate spiders though. Mantis are awsome and I love ornemental lobsters. Don't ask why spiders bother me because I have no idea, they just do.
If you need a replacement scorpion just let me know, we kill (or relocate, depending on who finds it) about one a week in the summer
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by kjr_trig
If you need a replacement scorpion just let me know, we kill (or relocate, depending on who finds it) about one a week in the summer

yeah, if you want another scorpion, I know whose house to go to to find some in the shower.
 

gharner

Member
did you ever catch your mantis? ive been looking for one, but im still not sure if i want one or not yet. can you post a pic of him when you catch him?
 

keri

Active Member
Originally Posted by stdreb27
yeah, mantis keepers are like those nuts who have tarantulas, snakes and scorpions. They are kept in species tanks, and are mean little boogers.

Tisk Tisk! Am hardly a nut!
(I prefer the word "eccentric")
 

keri

Active Member
Originally Posted by stdreb27
yeah, mantis keepers are like those nuts who have tarantulas, snakes and scorpions. They are kept in species tanks, and are mean little boogers.

Tisk Tisk! I Am hardly a nut!
(I prefer the word "eccentric")

How big do mantis's (manti pl,??) have to be to be a danger to the glass?
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by Keri
Tisk Tisk! I Am hardly a nut!
(I prefer the word "eccentric")

How big do mantis's (manti pl,??) have to be to be a danger to the glass?
eclectic?
 
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