[BradFL]

YouTube - Leonidas pwning a minnow

let me know what you think!!!

[e_baer]

that is awsome! My friend has a mantis, and weve fed it emerald crabs, damsels, shrimp, snails, etc. Anything alive and crawling that goes in the tank gets eaten. That is a good video of your mantis.

[BradFL]

Thanks man!! That's my spearer so I can only feed him shrimp, fish, and other soft foods. But my peacock is probably going to get a small blue crab soon or maybe some shrimp.

[crxman]

heres a really good video on a pistol shrimp YouTube - Pistol Shrimp

[boombadan]

That makes me really want one..lol

[pete york]

YouTube - Has Mr Mantis met his match?

thats a cool peacock mantis vid

[Jeremy0322]

That was a really funny video. Just the ending soundtrack with the Fallen Hero HALO song...lol.

[plecosword]

wow that is scary lol

[e_baer]

Originally Posted by pete york

YouTube - Has Mr Mantis met his match?

thats a cool peacock mantis vid

yeah, ive seen that before, that is really crazy. the crab is so much bigger than he is.

[plecosword]

try fighting it with your hand! lol

[e_baer]

my friend has 2 mantis shrimps and he feeds them by hand. They are not that big yet, but they several inches long.

[crxman]

ok well it looks like you guys talked me into gettin a mantis. what size tank would i need and what else would i need and about how much would it all cost me?

[thelastmucci]

Mantis' are very special creatures and are not meant for fighting purposes...while most of us don't want these "nusienses" in our tank if you do decide to buy one and keep it seperately then you should know they need as much attention as the next salt water project. Please don't buy a mantis just to make it fight something.

[e_baer]

and also, dont just ask what do they need and give it the bare minimums. So your research and find out!

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check those sights for some good info

[Fishhead Junkie]

good god...those things are damn mean. that peacock was relentless...did you not feed him for a week or something...he was acting like an ethiopian bum rushing a red cross rice and potato truck!!!!! count me out on one of those...thing would probably mutate and learn to breath air, climb out in the middle of the night and kick my ass!!!

steve

[plecosword]

Originally Posted by Fishhead Junkie

good god...those things are damn mean. that peacock was relentless...did you not feed him for a week or something...he was acting like an ethiopian bum rushing a red cross rice and potato truck!!!!! count me out on one of those...thing would probably mutate and learn to breath air, climb out in the middle of the night and kick my ass!!!

steve

I know seriously, Im with you.
I caught a lobster once at the little stream here and kept it in my tank for a few days. He was such a good boy, loved flakes lol. But then he started getting out of the tank. my dog would stop bariking and it ws the lobster in front door. It never hurt anything but i didnt kep it with any fish.

[e_baer]

how in the world did it get out of the tank???!!?!???

[BradFL]

hah, I feed him once every other day and I give him live foods about once every two weeks so he has hard shelled foods so he works his appendages out. If you don't let him "work out" his hammers, they can fall off and he will have to regrow them.

[plecosword]

Originally Posted by e_baer

how in the world did it get out of the tank???!!?!???

It was a 10g and the hole for the power filter was too big so he swam up to the heater and i guess he climbed out. when i moved the heater, i have no idea how he got out the second and third time lol I think there was a forth before i returned him.

[patrick1234]

nice.......