Zebra mantis for sale

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

Bought this mantis in Austin a couple of weekends back and we decided we don't really have the room to set up our 100 gallon acrylic tank for him we paid $225 with tax and we want $200 for him. He is 10 inches long and is the hammer kind as far as we can tell. 18739

[ducati996]

thats a cool looking mantis and huge at that length

[koa25]

He is cool looking. I'll give you that. A little drawn butter and that'll make a nice meal.

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

lol ya he is big. just cant have him to many clowns i need room. :(

[malofish]

Thats a Lysiosquillina Maculata. And he is a spearing type of mantis. He will need 1.5 his body length in sans depth so he can properly burrow. Has he been eating? If so, what he been eating?

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

i gave him shrimp. maybe thats y he didnt eat the snail it was sold to us as a zebra how can u tell its not?

[ducati996]

malofish its the same thing they just have different names or it zebra shrimp or bumble bee shrimp http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?cid=84&pid=1225&did=2

[malofish]

The diet on blue zoo is very generalized that animal doesnt have the ability to smash and spear like other mantis shrimp. Its strictly spear only. Its diet usually consists of fish, squid......basically anything it can impale!
Here is awsome info and the only guide I go by.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/species.php?name=l_maculata

[Southern Flame]

He is cool looking. I'll give you that. A little drawn butter and that'll make a nice meal.
LOL that would be an expensive meal mike

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

Thanks for all the info on him!

[malofish]

Im a major stomotopodaholic! Im going to try and see if I can wrangle up a set up fer that mantis.....ive allways wanted a maculata.

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

lol ya i wish i could keep him i hope you find a tank what kind of tank would you be looking for:)

[malofish]

Something odd.....maybe 25/30" tank thats 24/30" deep. That animal never, ever comes out of its borrow so more than anything else it needs burrowing room. Id love something "cubish" so it doesnt take up a lot of floor room. 20x20x24/30 would be about **** perfect.

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

18789 peek a boo

[malofish]

Supercool! How many inches of sand is in the tank?

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

There is 4-5 inches and we have a PVC pipe "T" underneath the sandbed he built his mucus entrance at one end :-)

[World Class Aquatics & Exotics]

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