Quote Originally Posted by Third Coast Tropical View Post
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.
Been doing some research and i'm pretty sure I've figured out what mantis this is; Squilla empusa. It lives in deep burrows in the mud and gets picked by ships trawling for shrimp.

Unfortantly it's not particularly suited for aquarium life --it's nocturnal and requires a sand bed deeper than it is long.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthrop...?name=s_empusa