*Crack* *Crack* *Crack* - A Mantis Shrimp Nano

[Jordan N.]

Wow, this thread exploded while I was at work.

You can get them at the coast. Some pretty big, and really cool looking. Don't recall the genus species, but they are there. Go to a bait stand and ask if they have any mixed in with their live shrimp. They will probably let you have one for free. Most of those guys call them sea lice.

If I'm down there I'll look into it -Do you remember if they were smashers? To be honest though, I'm pretty set on what species I want, some are significantly more active during the day than others.

For growing macro with CF's I grow macro in my sump/fuge with a energy saver CF from Lowes works find for the macro so I am sure you will be good to go with compacts.

Glad to hear this is worked out for someone --I figured it would be sufficient.

Glad you are going with the smasher....glass tank/spearer bad news, especially the thin-glass standard 10g.

i think you may have that backwards

Haha, yes that is absolutely backwords. If a Spearer broke a tank it would really be one for the record books.

Based on his research, the main smashers that are a risk to glass are the Peacock -- I said the same thing when he first mentioned the idea, and he pointed out the diminutive size of the sp. he's looking for.. I think he was planning on acrylic lining the floor of the tank as well

-Justin

The power of a Stomatopods strike increases (Exponentially) with the size of the animal. Unless your mantis is over 6 inches long it's very unlikely that they would break the glass. All of the mantis I'm looking at max out at around 3 inches or so. (Honestly even if they are that size it's pretty unlikely they will break the glass. The main concern is if they dig their burrow down to the glass and decide that they need to remove the obstacle and keep building. A large mantis repeatedly smashing thin glass can break it.)

-Jordan N.