Kmst80
Well-Known Member
Question: Has anyone successfully kept a mantis shrimp in a mixed reef.
A little Backround: Started my tank 6 and a half month ago, put 50 kg live rock in. I discovered after a few weeks a pistol shrimp, so i thought all this clicking was coming from him.
6 month later and i discovered a new hole in the live rock and something moving in it. After paying attention to the hole for a few days it became clear it is a approx. 1 inch mantis shrimp of light brown color, a smashing mantis bdw.
I got snails, other shrimp, crabs, hermits, fish, corals and a lot more in the tank. The biodiversity of the rock is mindblowing.
So far i have lost 1 hermit early on, 2 trochus snails and a firetail goby disappeared. The hermit and snails got eaten by a big mithrax crab that i removed a few month ago, no losses since then. The firetail may have jumped through the netting and got eaten by my dog, don't know.
Studying the mantis the last 2 weeks i never see him leaving his hole, he only sits at the entrance head sticking out.
A little Backround: Started my tank 6 and a half month ago, put 50 kg live rock in. I discovered after a few weeks a pistol shrimp, so i thought all this clicking was coming from him.
6 month later and i discovered a new hole in the live rock and something moving in it. After paying attention to the hole for a few days it became clear it is a approx. 1 inch mantis shrimp of light brown color, a smashing mantis bdw.
I got snails, other shrimp, crabs, hermits, fish, corals and a lot more in the tank. The biodiversity of the rock is mindblowing.
So far i have lost 1 hermit early on, 2 trochus snails and a firetail goby disappeared. The hermit and snails got eaten by a big mithrax crab that i removed a few month ago, no losses since then. The firetail may have jumped through the netting and got eaten by my dog, don't know.
Studying the mantis the last 2 weeks i never see him leaving his hole, he only sits at the entrance head sticking out.
