Mantis Shrimp

[BlueTerror]

I got a spare 1ft tank, would like to keep something exotic like a mantis shrimp in it.

will it try to break the glass? pretty scared of it smashing the glass and water flooding everywhere.

what i gather from forums is that they do break acrylic easily but tank glass not tt often.

[TanGo]

I got a spare 1ft tank, would like to keep something exotic like a mantis shrimp in it.

will it try to break the glass? pretty scared of it smashing the glass and water flooding everywhere.

what i gather from forums is that they do break acrylic easily but tank glass not tt often.

Ask Phang!

[shiraz]

as far as i know, the shrimp won't strike anything if it isn't provoked. i was thinking of keeping it but i dun believe that it will juz sit there and not strike anything! wahahah i dun trust myself! can ask ppl who kept it b4.

[BlueTerror]

whoa, my 1ft tank is those 5plan type. gonna put in office one.

[woonming]

haha hope ur mantis arent this size!

[Achilles Tang]

The mantis shrimps we find in our hobby is overated in terms of their capability to break glass tanks.

I think when they get to that monster size, then it's a worry.

I saw a video of a huge one spearing a fish as it swam by and boy, it was lighting fast. Saw another one it smashed a crab to pieces in two strikes. But they were all huge ones.

[hongqixian]

www.blueboard.com/mantis/index.htm

[BlueTerror]

he he, i was looking for a small one. would this 5plan tank be sufficient to contain it?

[lonteoh]

Blue terror,

I think it is ok to put a mantis in a glass tank. In LCK 110 , they put their 4 " peacock in a acrylic cage and it has been staying there 4 ages w/o much problem. So i guess ur 1 feet shouldn't be a problem too.

[lona]

when you buy something like that how do they pack it up for you anyways?

I mean..what if they puncture the bag or something? After reading a little on them I get the heebie jeebies just looking at their pictures..

[TTBoy]

can they really crack glass tanks? U see a lot of them in seafood restaurents, esp. in HK. Usually they are in a glass tank...

[Sinn]

its a scary thought of leaving something like that in a tank in the office....

unless of course if u arnt sharing it wiff anyone else...

[spade]

he he, i was looking for a small one. would this 5plan tank be sufficient to contain it?

actually morgan has a small one. discovered during the Nuke FlatWorm campaign he's giving it away, butta dunno still alive or not ...

[Chris]

Blue terror,

I have a small 1 ft tank in my office too. I have a small hange-on filter. Tank has one small lionfish and three small pieces of LR. Very nice and easy to keep. I only change water (half) once a month and its been fine for 3 months already. The spines of the lionfish grows very long and nice because no one else to bother it. Just feed it with live or dead fish or shrimps(left over from cooking). You might wanna consider.

[BlueTerror]

Lionfish? What type of lionfish is that? Those dwarf few cm ones?

[Chris]

Mine bought at 4 cm. Now about 6cm. The normal type. You could also go for the drawf but the spines are not long.