[Chugalug]

I am in love and in awe!!! I just recieved my very first peacock mantis. I was expecting a 1 inch baby and opened the bag to find a 5 inch Goliath. WOW! I need to make some bigger places for him to hide

[spanko]

5" Oh my! Please post a pic of this monster!

[Chugalug]

Here are 2 I took last night...lighting isn't too good. Behind her (yes...I have decided it is a "her"--no, I don't know for sure) is a shell as big as my hand. Also notice the bumblebee snails...about 3/4" long. This is what happens when you decide to eat my polyps. Mantis food! She hasn't eaten any of them yet. I fed her a piece of shrimp on a skewer today though, and she took it immediately. Maybe the snails will get a stay of execution.

[JackedupSOB]

any updates on the mantis?

[Chugalug]

Funny you should mention it.

I had to get her a bigger home...a 20 long that will do for now. She has been a fantasic addition to my home. Very interactive.

Last week she (and now I believe I was right, that she is a she)began to franticly gather every bit of shell and crushed coral available in the tank. Today she refused food for the first time ever and is a darker brownish color. I think she is beginning her first molt in my care!!!

Very soon she will inherit my 55 when I upgrade my reef to a 280 and my predator to a 180.

I have physicly had to restrain myself from adding another mantis to my collection. Maybe when I upgrade her tank I can get another species.

What a facinating creature!

I am still very much in love.

[JackedupSOB]

great to hear that maybe some day I will get one myself right now I just dont have the room or money for another tank