My New Friend!
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powdertoastman
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lol like he said, watch your hands. and dont put fish/corals/inverts/hands/arms/anything alive in with it, or it will get torn up. also they make a very loud clicking at night, can get on your nerves fast.
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therock0861
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Well for starters they kill and eat most all other crustaceans. They can be harmful to humans as well. They posses enough force in their claws to break aquarium class and fingers too. They have also been known to kill fish too. They are just plain and simply nasty little creatures that are and rightfully should be unwanted in a home aquarium unless you have a species tank to keep them in. HTH
ace ventura
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just looking at it creeps me out.... no offense lol
balashark21
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the hammers strike with a force equivelent to a .22 callibure bullet!!! they have been known to be pulled up in shrimp nets by commercial fishermen and the guys cant explaine y they come out with broken fingers! haha
jawfishray
Member
Mantis shrimp will eat anything even remotely close to being alive.
While I was working for a collector in Miami, we dove and collected for local schools, zoos, and large private tanks...we came across a couple customers asking for mantis shrimps (1988-89). So while collecting mated pairs of coral banded boxers I found 2 fairly large mantis. Both were 5-6" and brillantly colored much like an motor oil sheen on water (chromatic blues, greens,etc.).
To make a long story short...while I had instructed the new kid on how not to handle the mantis, called thumb splitters in the Carribean, I had somehow forgotten to tell him to not allow them to be removed from their isolator keepers. So he let them both go in the same tank...I was called in from another job to get them out as the kid was on his way to the hospital with 3 deep cuts in his palm...he picked one up like a hotdog
When I got there, the hunt had been going on for 20mins already. The pair of them creeping about, just looking over the top of the LR to catch sight of the other, and then scooting at 600MPH to the other side of tank to catch the other mantis unaware...it was a ballet that ended like and opera...the fat lady certainly sang that day. Both died from deep wounds.
While these guys are on my most favorite list, along with Taco..I mean octopus, sargasso anglers, and cuttlefish...they must not be allowed to be introduced into a community tank, unless you want to clear the tank of all moving creatures.
The two basic types of mantis are clubbers and blades. The clubbers use a bash and grab style of kung fu, where as the bladed ones have nasty shapy rigdes along their forearm that they use for the snap and cut kung fu.
I had a small clubber mantis 1" chase after a huge mottled pistol shimp 6" for a day at least. The mantis gave up, but I think the fear of god was put into that pistol shrimp.
Ray
While I was working for a collector in Miami, we dove and collected for local schools, zoos, and large private tanks...we came across a couple customers asking for mantis shrimps (1988-89). So while collecting mated pairs of coral banded boxers I found 2 fairly large mantis. Both were 5-6" and brillantly colored much like an motor oil sheen on water (chromatic blues, greens,etc.).
To make a long story short...while I had instructed the new kid on how not to handle the mantis, called thumb splitters in the Carribean, I had somehow forgotten to tell him to not allow them to be removed from their isolator keepers. So he let them both go in the same tank...I was called in from another job to get them out as the kid was on his way to the hospital with 3 deep cuts in his palm...he picked one up like a hotdog
When I got there, the hunt had been going on for 20mins already. The pair of them creeping about, just looking over the top of the LR to catch sight of the other, and then scooting at 600MPH to the other side of tank to catch the other mantis unaware...it was a ballet that ended like and opera...the fat lady certainly sang that day. Both died from deep wounds.
While these guys are on my most favorite list, along with Taco..I mean octopus, sargasso anglers, and cuttlefish...they must not be allowed to be introduced into a community tank, unless you want to clear the tank of all moving creatures.
The two basic types of mantis are clubbers and blades. The clubbers use a bash and grab style of kung fu, where as the bladed ones have nasty shapy rigdes along their forearm that they use for the snap and cut kung fu.
I had a small clubber mantis 1" chase after a huge mottled pistol shimp 6" for a day at least. The mantis gave up, but I think the fear of god was put into that pistol shrimp.
Ray
murray bmf
Member
I think they are neat. I keep a snapping turtle tank just because they are rare and unusual, which makes it intresting. I put live gold fish and crawfish in the turtle tank and watch them go to town. I think mantis are neat and intresting