Baby mantis shrimp

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Alright so I have a full grown peacock mantis today I picked up a baby mantis maybe a inch long. Anyone have any ideas what kind it may be?

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"I shall call him... Mini-Me".

Lol he really is! I've never seen one so dang small It's maybe not even a inch at the biggest a inch it's tiny. This picture next to the silicone on its tank and the normal size Glass cleaner.
 

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It does look like a smasher mantis shrimp,so its probably your bigger mantis shrimp's baby. Dont ask me how but some animals sometimes can give birth without mateing.
 
I had one of these come in as a hitchhiker about 27 years ago, from a live rock shipment from Tampa Bay Saltwater. I was 15 and the tank was in my bedroom, I would her snapping at night as the shrimp was hunting.
 

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