AbsoluteFaye's Mantis Tank Build!

[erichm20]

Well keeping it GOT style khaleesi is my vote.

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

Daenerys is the khaleesi's real name. I'm torn. Lol. I should make her Arya! Lol I'm just slightly obsessed with GOT.

 

[Macscale]

This would have been a lot less confusing if I knew you were talking about Game of Thrones.

 

[erichm20]

Daenerys is the khaleesi's real name. I'm torn. Lol. I should make her Arya! Lol I'm just slightly obsessed with GOT.

Lol I know... Daenerys just sounds too nice. Really you should call her cersei since she wouldn't bat an eye and kill everyone if she could. So I don't know too much about mantis husbandry, do you feed her live foods?

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

Do far I've fed her thawed clams on the half shell and she just comes and take it right from the tongs. I have two damsels in there and a bunch of hermits and snails for her but she hasn't touched anything yet. Just the clams. And yes cersei would be a perfect name!

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

I can now confirm that a 3 inch mantis shrimp cannot do damage to my glass solana tank. I heard a loud clicking, way louder than normal and saw her clicking away at NOTHING on the glass. Weirdo. No damage done though.

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

How's she dong? Any updates?

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

She's doing great! Won't use the PVC but she continues to expand her rocky burrow daily. She still takes clams right off my tweezers too. Almost instantly. Lol. Little piggy.

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

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Since my mantis plugged up all her holes in the rock work with pebbles and only comes out to eat, my tank was super boring. So I picked this girl up yesterday. She's a green wolf eel (actually in the dottyback family) and she's about 10" long. Keeping up with the game of thrones names, I named her Sersei. At least the PVC is finally being put to use. She's already eating frozen silversides.

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

Probably getting ready to molt if she's closing up her burrow.

 

[Ravden]

Nice eel

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[AbsoluteFaye]

Probably getting ready to molt if she's closing up her burrow.

Yeah haven't seen her in a few days. There's pebbles shoved everywhere. Do you know how long it would take? I'm really curious because I knew they had to molt but all my regular "shrimp" just molt in the open. I know she's not technically a shrimp so I didn't know how. I'll have to read up on it I guess. I just hope the mantis and eel get along. The eel won't bother her because she can't fit in it's mouth. Worried that the mantis might bother the eel but I guess we shall see!!

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

They are much more reclusive during a molt than shrimp, I believe it usually takes around a week before they feel comfortable and come back out. The thread I linked to like way back on the first page from NR has a ton of mantis info, and TIki is what I would call a mantis expert and is always willing to answer people's questions.
Edit: and from everything I've read molting is pretty much the hardest thing they ever do. And it's fairly common for them to re appear with under developed appendages

 

[Redwolf91]

Not sure on the mantis, but when my spiders Molt they are defenseless for a period of time, so they hide about a week after, perhaps the same principle applies?

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[AbsoluteFaye]

The mantis is out and about and boy was she hungry! Went to feed her a clam and the eel stole it so I had to feed the eel first. And I guess she got hungry during the night because there is a perfect eel mouth shaped injury on my white damsel. Lol. Guess it was too big for her. Crazy animals.

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

That's good about her coming out, did you find any pieces of her molt?

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

No. Her "home" is literally inside a piece of large rock. There's not even much flow back there so I doubt I'll see it unless something drags it out.

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

She probably ate it then. Did she change colors at all?

 

[AbsoluteFaye]

Looks like her red stripes got much brighter. That's it I think. She's so fast it was hard I see.

 

[manbeast]

Hey, it's been a while, any updates on this build?


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