mantis shrimp

Y’all for 4 months the tapping drove me nuts- ran a camera into the tank and found a pistol Shrimp- this Morning after he killed my Cleaner I tore the tank apart - guess what else I found?

With social distancing having no foreseeable end in sight, my significant other gave me the green light on a pico/Nano bookshelf build. My Waterbox 70:2 will also appreciate this as I have been messing with it too much as of late. The tank will go where my pico contest tank Was previously. I...

I’m planning a Nano mantis tank And have the N. oerstedii And N. curacaoensis as stocking options. I have read Roy Caldwell’s page in each but I’m wondering what people’s opinions are? The tank is a lifeguard Aquatics Crystal 7.4gal peninsula. Both shrimp I am looking at are around 1”

I need whatever tips tricks and knowledge people can give me. This is my 2nd try the first time ended miserably all my fault with many mistakes. Now im starting fresh in a new house trying to get a tank set up for a Mantis shrimp and maaaaaybe two clowns. If all goes well in this tanks first...

Hi guys, Just got back from China and saw loads of these guys in the restaurants. I have never seen mantis shrimp this big. All of them larger than my forearm.

So yesterday I saw a Mantis Shrimp (I am assuming it was a mantis shrimp) pop out of the rocks. He must have been there for quite sometime as I haven't added in anything new for a while now. This would explain the mystery of my missing invertebrates (a few months ago my cleaner shrimp both...

I just added a bunch of new rock, inverts, and macroalgae to my tank with a peacock mantis shrimp. I was working and rearranging things for at least an hour. Then again the following day. A giant hermit crab I rather like fell into the mantis burrow but the mantis never attacked. So I spent 15...

Just wanted to share a short video of my peacock in his 100g mixed reef. Breaking all kinds of stereotypes!

Hey guys. I just picked this guy up at my LFS. Guy said he was a pest hitchhiker so I bought it off him for a couple bucks. His body is probably about 3 inches wide not including the claws/legs. He's pretty big. He's munching on some octopus I just gave him. I bought it for my mantis shrimp...

Hi everyone. I just posted a couple days ago about an emergency I was having with my tank. All my fish were dying after switching to a new sump. I thought it was because I switched the sand, or because the heater was up too high which killed off the bacteria; however, I found the culprit. I...

I have a 9 month old tank. Last week I turned off my return pump overnight due to a plumbing problem. I have a refugium with lots of macro growing in it. When I turned off the power for the return pump, it also turned off the light in the fuge. I fixed the plumbing the next day but noticed the...

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While I was feeding my tank (RSR250) tonight I noticed a flash of red that dashed out, grabbed some LRS and disappeared. It moved like a mantis shrimp. I got some live rock last summer from TBS for a nano tank that came with a mantis. Some of the rock went into my RSR. The thing is... I haven't...

Long story short, my Peacock Mantis is in a 32 gallon Biocube and has been doing great for a few months now, successfully molted and eats everyday. I also have a Purple Tube Anemone in the same situation, eating daily, and growing large. The problem is the Tube anemone is in my Coral...

We have a peacock named Boris (he has his own tank with two clowns that stay out of his way.) He is very smart and comes out of his burrow to look at us as much as we like looking at him. That being said, he is a very picky eater. He will only eat live crabs, shrimp or snails that we throw in...

Is this a baby Mantis Shrimp? I found pics online that look similar .. I'll try and get a better pic.. Thanks BD

I just found this section and thought my latest video would be perfect here...;Walkingdead

Is there such a thing? Is there a species of stomatopod that has no interest in corals or fish? I don't mind it taking out some hermits and snails. Also the aquarium is a 125 gallon with a 4 inch sand bed and is well established.

hey guys i have a few questions on flatworms but first let me add some background information, i currently have a nano aquarium set up for a G. chiragra mantis shrimp and i has some other cuc in there as well but no corals or fish just a marine planted tank if you will dominated by macro algae...

Hey I've got a gonodactylus chiragra that I picked up from a poor local store that had it in terrible conditions so I decided to rescue the little guy from them, anyway it has a small tan spot on the telson that I believe to be shell rot. I've done tons of research before and after purchasing...

Ok let’s get this started. As you can see my Reef Savvy tank has arrived in its fantastic crate! My anticipation for this tank and the build I’m about to embark on has been great to say the least. After a year of planning, lots discussions with Felix at Reef Savvy, and then some hard prep work...

Will you help me put together the most reliable places to purchase a Mantis Shrimp online? Here is my list so far: https://bluezooaquatics.com/productlist.asp?did=2&cid=84 http://www.liveaquaria.com/category/525/shrimp?c=497+525...

This will be mostly a progression thread to show the maturing of my new Peacock Mantis A little history on the tank and Mantis... Once upon a time I had a nice 55g mixed reef that was just getting onto its feet. I had several fish die unexpectedly and I was dealing with out of wack parameters...

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