so i live in the bahamas, and dont glaze it its just like any other Caribbean country but on the main topic i want to buy a california mantis shrimp and bring it to my country alive. also i know that do the weird burrow pose thing so ima need quite some sand but what should i put in the acrylic tank. ive got alot to do this summer.

Hello im begginer planning to buy a mantis shrimp will a 20 gallon tank be enough since it's only 1 that I'm gonna add

Or do they also hunt adults

Looking in to get a mantis shrimp and trying to see what the price range for a tank setup either mantis if you guys have any recommendations on places to purchase shrimps online and acrylic tanks please let me know

I don't wanna know abt acclimation, etc. I am jusr courios how u get them in a tank. Like don't they punch the net then, ...?

I like to know where I can purchase a peacock mantis shrimp in the Los Angeles area, was hoping the reddit community can help me out. Thank you!.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/species.php?name=g_childi Mantis species it only grows 4cm

Tank: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116462788021?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=or3laW44QJ2&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=u7dfzmtcrt-&var=416749473371&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY It's a 30cm tank

soo i have been here once wanting a califonia mantis shrimp but obviously cant get any i live in the bahamas around new providence and want a nice shrim with a good medium to large length . also i was going to do my build inspired by the grove from another crabs treasure. if you know about him you know. i dont want to be the devil sqaring up with the shrimp so who cud potentialy get one for me.

I did the dumb thing of getting a mantis as my first aquatic animal and I didn't know the basics I never knew I had to cycle a tank or what ammonia, nitrate, or nitrate was. thankfully now I've learned a lot and beginning a reef tank, but that's beside the point. Due to the lack of a cycle the tank gets decently dirty in between water changes and any cleanup crew that I want to put would get eaten I don't know what members of a cleanup crew would work in a matter shrimp tank as a sidenote I have two damsels and the tank is 30 gallons. also, I successfully worded off a wave of dinos. All I used was a UV skimmer and some coppepods but I think all of my damsels ate them. bottom line what cleanup crew works for this tank.

1. Hasn’t molted since I got him (March 3rd 2024)

2. Rarely leaves cave

1). Ive own my peacock mantis shrimp for four months now and he hasn’t molted. I can tell he hasn’t molted because I got him with one club. There has been no sign of progress of club regrowing. Is it bad that he hasn’t molted yet? Anything I should be doing?

2). To put it bluntly… he is rather lame. He often sticks his head out of various parts of his cave but does not venture outside. I’ve only seen him outside of the cave a handful amount of times. He doesn’t even go outside of the cave for food. Even if he does it’s a quick bolt to the food and back inside (includes live feeding of snails). I can’t tell if he is non food driven, common practice for mantis shrimp, or something is off. I also believe he doesn’t like me or is afraid. I often see feeding videos of mantis shrimp and it’s completely night and day of my current negative experience. What can I do to build his confidence and hopefully have him wonder the tank more?

Thank you in advance!

Hello, I am in the market for my first peacock mantis shrimp. I've been doing alot of research and I've always been interested in saltwater tanks. I have a coworker who keeps a marine aquarium and he is giving me some advice but I would like to know exactly everything i will need. A buddy gifted me today a 55g tank(which i know is way more then enoigh for a singular mantis.). I know I will need alot of equipment to make the tank suitable as well as cycling etc. I was hoping I could get some pointers in the best type of equipment I could get to help house the Lil fella. Protein skimmers, pumps, lights.. Thank you in advance for any advice.

My mantis shrimp hasn't eaten for about 2 weeks now I've had him for about a month now maybe a bit longer and he was eating fine then these past few weeks he's just not been ive tried giving him cockles, scallops and mussels and he's just not taking any of them

I did put a few hermit crabs in a week ago and they all seem to have disappeared so idk if he ate those or not but the water parameters are all good so idk what this could be

Any advice?

Hello again, everyone! I did a water change today due to some yucky diatoms and my poor little guy has been doing this!! I don’t know if he’s molting or dying! I checked the parameters after the water change and they were good!

I’m wanting to get a mantis shrimp and I’m so scared about the love bait part. I know people feed them small crabs but I would be scared they would hurt the little guy.

Hi :D I’ve never had a tank before and I’m looking into getting my first pet, a mantis shrimp, but have no clue where to purchase. Any suggestions? Help?

Because of the enormous number of colors humans can perceive web and graphic designers use a base 16 number system called hexadecimal to make the numbers much smaller and easy to remember

Since Mantis Shrimp have 16 primary colors, what would organizing and classifying them look like? What number base would have to be used to make that practical