Mantis Shrimp

[dinod73]

I have a mantis shrimp (peacock, I think) that was a hitchhiker from a live rock that I bought a few months back. I decided to keep the mantis shrimp, but put it in a tiny 2.5 gallon tank. I am in the process of moving him to a 20 gallon tank and want to know what other animals I could mix in with him that would live safely together. Any thoughts???

 

[flowflezy]

Depends on if he is well feed I see some on u tube with alot of fish in the tank. I know all are different but look on u tube.

 

[ritter6788]

If it's a tiny hitchhiker it's not a "peacock"/O. scyllarus. Where did your liverock come from?

Basically anything you keep with a mantis is at risk but you can possibly keep some fish/inverts long term. I've kept my stomatopods with damsels, urchins, large snails, corals and other inverts like feather dusters.

 

[flowflezy]

And I would maybe go with acrylic also in new tank. They can break glass if they want also.

 

[Davesgt]

Like Ritter said damsels seem to do ok with mantis, but its a 50/50 shot. My current Peacock will not tolerate anything with him.