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

[samurhai]

One of the small guys. Probably the O. havanensis or the N. wennerae.

[kkiel02]

I have a peacock in my 100 but I don't feel safe cause it is glass. I think it is beter for you to get a clown mantis shrimp ( your first choice), that is a slasher if you have a glass aquarium. like Third Cost Tropical said If you have a chance go to the bait store at the cost sometime they have the mantis shrimp, I see them myself at the bait store before.

A couple years back they threw one in with the live shrimp we bought looking back Im lucky as I used it as bait. It could have been a different story if it got ahold of me. It was all brown though.

[Jordan N.]

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

[Jordan N.]

Hello Maast!

AS tends to happen to me the plans for this tank have spiraled out of control. Last week I picked up a 30 gallon oceanic cube off of falcondob. With the added space I've made bigger plans --This is now a Texas coast biotope tank.

http://www.maast.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57280

I'm going to be basing it off of the jetty's in port aransas. I'm going to go out and collect granite so i can build a 'jetty' wall up the beack of my tank. Probably going to also get some ulva macro algae and various rock anemones that occur along our coast. If anyone has information on thier care I would love to hear it.

I'm also fishing for book recomendations --Really anything that will help me get a handle on how the overall texas marine ecosystem works.

-Jordan N.

[Europhyllia]

very cool!