Ive Got a Mantis.

[RocketSeason]

Welp,

Ive got a Mantis. Looks to be a good sized brown one. his burrow was well hidden so I hadn't seen it before now. What should I do? Do I need to worry about my Coral Banded Shrimp? I figure I now know where all my blue-legged hermit crabs went. :x

 

[EL Diablo]

If he is a good size one like you say your shrimp is in trouble.

Funny I just discovered a tiny Peacock Mantis in my tank today.
Ordered a Mantis trap and hopefully he'll be caught.

I plan to set up a 10 gallon for him

Good Luck

 

[RocketSeason]

I may have spoken to soon. He might just be a large hitchiker crab. (kinda just saw him from a weird angle.) anyways, I am going to make a coke bottle trap and try to get rid of as many of them as possible.

 

[quarryshark]

Ain't live rock grand?

 

[mattmku]

I tried the bottle thing for about a week and had no luck. One day while cleaning we saw him go into a hole...we pulled the rock out and within 15 seconds had him flopping in the bottom of the bucket. If you know what rock he's in that's how i would recommend you get him.

 

[clowninround]

Thats how I caught all 4 of my crabs, grabbing the rocks they were on. Easy as pie

 

[i have crabs]

i grabed the rock and tryed dipping it in everything the little bugger wouldnt come out so after 4 or 5 trys he and his rock are in thier own tank with a couple other hichhikers

 

[MarineFlake]

Just some interesting reading, if you care..
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-03/jf/feature/

 

[EL Diablo]

cool article. makes me want to get the Mantis out of my tank ASAP

 

[seafan]

dead link?!

 

[sevise]

It took me about 10 minutes to catch my second mantis. I poked a hole in the end of a plastic bottle, put some string through the hole and tied a piece of shrimp to the string. Left enough slack so the shrimp was hanging out of the tip of the bottle. Put the contraption up to the Mantis' hole. He popped his head out and when he came after the shrimp I slowly pulled it back. When he was about 2 inches inside the bottle I pulled it out of the tank.

He now king of my fuge.

 

[RocketSeason]

copy everything from the http: to the /feature/ and stick it in your address bar.

the stupid abreviation thing kicks in on the links and cuts off everything after it.

 

[MarineFlake]

Not a dead link, the 'auto' tag is goofing it up. Cut and paste my friend.

 

[Juster]

dead link?!

You need to copy the entire link into a new window.

 

[sjdraper]

try this.... copy and paste the entire line... guess it's just too long to hyperlink the correct way... its a quick fix for now...

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-03/jf/feature/

 

[blorkiemom]

So I had never seen a mantis before, but are a couple at a LFS right now--huge (5" ish) green ones. A) They are pretty cool looking. B) Lord, are they scary. My husband asked the clerk where his claws were and the guy said, "Let me feed them and you'll see." 2 1/2 seconds and one dead feed fish later, we saw. Man. I'm not into keeping anything I have to feed live food, but they are impressive creatures. And I can see why hitchhikers need to go, ASAP!