Mantis Question

[bnord]

So... i have a fully loaded 180 that has been set up and running for 4 months. Bought some live cultivated rock from the keys @ the 1 month mark and set it in hypotonic salt and collected a few pistol shrimp, bunch of pea crabs and one little mantis.

Yesterday while checking things out i spied a 1-1.5 inch dark colored mantis (distinct eyes) snaking around a column in scape.

Question is does anyone know of a DIY mini lobster trap - 3-d printed kind of thing or another way to get him out before he starts doing what mantis do?

 

[SHNICI]

Hi,
give a shot of that article, probably you can get how to..., and you have to think about what's your one going after to eat and to put the same bait in the trap: -> Mantis <- Hope that's going to help.
otherwise pull out the rock you see it hide just pour a little cold seltzer water in his hole and he will come running out (I read that work from another place).
Good Luck with that

 

[Tired]

Bottle trap. No need to get fancy, just cut up a bottle. Bait with a chunk of dead shrimp or the like, maybe a small dead clam. You'll catch a lot of hermit crabs, and probably your mantis.

Catch it out alive and post it up on the forum, some people like mantises and will gladly take it off your hands. If no takers, try to kill it humanely, don't just flush it. Crustaceans may or may not be able to feel pain, science is uncertain but there's mounting evidence.

 

[bnord]

Thanks and indeed it is as cool a critter as any and have a small tank for it when he is nabbed

 

[Tired]

Cool. Try to get it identified so you know how big of a tank it'll need, those lil guys can wind up needing a decent amount of space. They're intelligent and do best with plenty of space to tunnel and build.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I had a stray a couple of years ago and caught it with a standard fish trap

 

[FreshwaterConvert]

Florida keys rock is usually a wennerae mantis, possibly curacoensis. Check Roy’s list, it’s a sticky under mantis shrimps. If it’s one of those or a similarly small one I’m setting up a fluval evo for one soon, and I’m sure plenty others would be interested as well. As said above, ID is key so it goes to the right home.

 

[bnord]

Florida keys rock is usually a wennerae mantis, possibly curacoensis. Check Roy’s list, it’s a sticky under mantis shrimps. If it’s one of those or a similarly small one I’m setting up a fluval evo for one soon, and I’m sure plenty others would be interested as well. As said above, ID is key so it goes to the right home.

Have run a trap for a couple weeks
Caught some worms but no shrimp - and no further sightings

 

[FreshwaterConvert]

Has any CUC disappeared?

 

[bnord]

It’s a 180, fully scaped and hare to keep track of the CUC community

two pistols are thriving coral crabs and 2 mithis and never put two many hermits in
put in 4 biota peppermint shrimp that have not been seen since, but that has happened before
keeping an eye out from it for the tanks sake as well as I would love to put it in a small tank of its own