Peacock Mantis

ScruffyRubicon · 01-28-2007, 06:54 PM

One of my LFS has this guy right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Huge-Peacock-Man...em250077376699

Pics don't do it justice. Very beautiful!

VWD · 01-28-2007, 07:06 PM

Thay are very pretty, I have a small ugly one in my reef for along time, can hear him and have seen him only a few times , never hurt anything as of yet

ScruffyRubicon · 01-28-2007, 07:09 PM

This thing could have swallowed a finger. It is huge!

leveldrummer · 01-28-2007, 07:28 PM

one of my local stores has one too, id love to set up a species tank for him, just dont have the extra time for another tank. super cool animal though, deserves all the respect too.

ScruffyRubicon · 01-28-2007, 07:30 PM

They had him in a nano for the time being. I think it was a 12g. He was half the length of the tank.

Sharkbait · 01-28-2007, 07:56 PM

We had one for a long time it came in on live rock. They are very fun to watch and are very smart almost problem solving smart

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know-it-all · 01-28-2007, 07:59 PM

I saw one in a LFS in Chicago,

very beautiful,

They had it in some cubed tanks, Mantis on one end, Peppermint shrimp on the other end,
but the peppeermint shrimp could fit through the slots and get into all the other cubes

I watched thay Mantis eat about 10 peppermint shrimp that day
and I was only there for 45 minutes