Crab and Mantis

[Zanotti]

Anybody ID this crab? Red Mithrax? Good or bad?
(Dont click unless you have high bandwith!)

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16989268-L.jpg

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16989272-L.jpg

How about this mantis?

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16800552-L.jpg
http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16800549-L.jpg


Sorry about the brown diatoms - the tanks has just been cycling 4 days!

 

[steve-s]

Anybody ID this crab? Red Mithrax? Good or bad?
(Dont click unless you have high bandwith!)

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16989268-L.jpg

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16989272-L.jpg

No offense but I feel like I'm playing a game of "where's Waldo". Can you circle the crab in the pic?

How about this mantis?

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16800552-L.jpg
http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16800549-L.jpg


Sorry about the brown diatoms - the tanks has just been cycling 4 days!

Check this site. Great info on stomatopods.
http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/index.htm
http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/pics.htm

Cheers
Steve

 

[mle421]

yeah i dont see the crab either. sorry.

 

[sumphead]

I downloaded the pics, played with the brightness/contrast and BINGO! I spy with my little eye....

yup, that's a red mithrax. AKA emerald, only red. They are primarily algea eaters but the red seem to occasionally take pinch at a softy (I had one try and nibble on an injured anemone once as well). I wouldn't worry about him though until a zoanthid or two come up missing. And I normally i recognize those little eyes anywhere, bt the pic is hard to tell. Unless my mind is seeing what it wants to see though, I would say you are corract and have a stomapod (mantis) as well.

hth,
R-

 

[Zanotti]

OK for you Where's Waldo Challenged!

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/17021424-L.jpg

http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/17021425-L.jpg

General consensus is a red mithrax.

 

[Ichthyology]

I have a mantis in my 20 gallon tank. I put him in a little light plastic ziplock throwaway container with lots of holes. He is only about an inch long and I have heard that when Bandit gets bigger he might eat my fish. I have a $40 fish named Fantasie, among other fish that I have. I can't get a good pic of him but he seems quite happy in his Astro snail shell home. He moved right in, after I fished him from my live rock in a three hour process with a turkey baster. Good luck with the mantis. My Bandit is black and white at the moment and I think his name suits him fine. like I said before, good luck with yours.