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| It's easy to understand why folks who end up with one of these creatures as a hitchhiker into their tank are pretty upset. First of all, I think the mantis would eventually wipe out most of the other shrimps, crabs etc in the tank -- they would be dinner. Also, if others are like this guy, the hobbyist would wake up one morning and find everything rearranged in the tank. Still one of the coolest animals I have ever kept in water. Right up there with mudskippers and octopus.
*************************** Be warned -- everyone at college has a weird roommate. If you don't have a weird roomate -- then you're the weird roommate.
Conan O'Brien, Stuyvesant High School.
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| Just for fun, here is a current pic of "Beau" -- my rainbow mantis shrimp. He is attacking the feeding stick with some pieces of ProSalt IQF Krill on it. 
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Be warned -- everyone at college has a weird roommate. If you don't have a weird roomate -- then you're the weird roommate.
Conan O'Brien, Stuyvesant High School.
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Another great picture David! Awsome animal.
So many species, so little money!
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YOU HAD AN OCTOPUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?Great pic !!!!!! I just went to my LFS and saw one for the first time! I really want one but what would I need ? How much was yours ? The one at my LFS was $90.
55 GALLON TANK
1 Veil Tail Angelfish-Angie
3 Peppered Cories
3 Golden Wonder Killi's
1 Spotted climbing perch
2 Long Fined Zebra Danios
1 Clown Plecos
4 Cherry Barbs
2 Turquoise Severums
1 Flag Cichlid
1 Dwarf Pike Cichlid
1 Sailfin Pleco - Gibby
10 GALLON
1 Crayfish
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Awesome shrimp! The tail looks like a mini lobster tail in the pictures. Maybe it's related to a lobster
My Tank:20 Gallon Sw: Two False percula clownfish.
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David how is the Mantis doing?
__________________________________________ 46 Gallon Tank Planted-1 Female German Ram-5 Gymnogeophagus Sp. Norte-6 Class N Endlers Black Bars (Pure Strain)-4 Otto Cats 25 Gallon Planted (High tech)- Two Bolivian Rams- 10 endlers/guppy cross 10 Gallon Tank Planted. (At the office)-6 Class N Endlers Black Bars (Pure Strain)
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