Free Mantis Shrimp

[TritonsGarden]

Found this thing while cleaning the frag tank today. Free to good home.

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Jack

 

[gflat65]

If no one claims it, I'll take it... Jenn will kill me, but I can't stop collecting critters. The Eunicid from Bryan (CRC) from the ETRC swap was a separate tank, too. She doesn't understand why I'd want to keep ugly things that like...

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Yikes, I am totally with Jenn on the hideous worm.

 

[TritonsGarden]

He's all yours Gary. I'll find some place to keep him safe until the CRC swap. Just don't tell Jenn know where you got it. Let her think it was a hitchiker.


PS: What ever happened to your cucumber fish? You do collect weird things.
Jack

 

[gflat65]

Awesome. I've wanted a mantis for a while, just for observations. I've always like weird, unique things. I'm weird, so it only fits (and I guess unique in some ways, even if not admirable).

The gonad eating buttfish hasn't been seen in some time. I dropped two cukes in there, so one of them is probably hating me right now. It's in a separate system (soon to be the sump/fuge/growout whenever I can get some power run to that room), so I'm hoping I can spot it again before hooking everything up.

 

[Jason edwards]

cool find.

 

[Paul_N]

I like that video, it looks like Curly from the Three Stooges spinning around in circles on it's side. Great find!

 

[TritonsGarden]

Gflatt, just wanted tou to know that CARC had a big time playing with your mantis today.... everyone thought it was so cool!!!! you may have started a trend...LOL

 

[Cuda]

I hope I never find anything like that in my tank:tongue:

 

[gflat65]

They are cool little guys. I got to see one excavating a rock in St. Maarten (same dive I got to watch and octopus on a hole for 10-15 minutes).

 

[Tomoko Schum]

I used to get a big kick out of watching 8Ball's Thor (the peacock mantis in his avatar). He was very big and pretty. Quite a charactor, too.

 

[dbarker]

I have one! He is sooo cool! He will eat mysis out of my hand! He has his home in one of my big expensive pieces of live rock and when I splash the surface of the water he pokes his head out 'cus ya know, it's feeding time! He wiggles his eyes at me!!

I saw a piece of coral that had about 5 small peacocks and if I had had a place for them at the time I would have bought the coral just to get them! Debbie

 

[beaslbob]

Yikes, I am totally with Jenn on the hideous worm.

Wasn't that the type of worm at oregon reefs that grew to 7-8' and was eating Zoos?

 

[gflat65]

Yup. Leaves little rat pellets all over the bottom. That reminds me to drop him some more zoas...

 

[BHAMR6]

Gflat you about lost that mantis if i would had some where to put him he would have came home with me

 

[gnoles]

He was a neat little thing. Pushed a little sand toward him, he cleaned it out and gave me the fin.

 

[gflat65]

. I can't wait. I've got time to plan his home a little better than the last critter I brought home (4' Eunicid).

 

[TritonsGarden]

He sure like to pop that claw....