Ahhhh I Have A Mantis!

[N1z]

Well after all this time of thinking i didnt have one, i do ****! Its small about 2cms maybe smaller but damn i wanna kill it.

PLease help with any ideas on how to catch them. Also im not sure what i saw on my zoos other day but looked like tiny grey things going along the zoos, so i freshwater dipped them and killed the sods but they too small to make out, think it could be mantis fry???

HELP!

 

[rabbut]

OK, first off, do you have a sump? Mantis shrimp are a great pet apparently, so someone local may want it Catching and moving it into the sump would be more humane than killing it, and you have the possibility of getting some £ for it... For catching, try and work out where it is and then "target feed" it with a net near-by. Tempt it out with a meaty morsle on a feeding stick after lights out and when it comes out for lunch, net the little so-and-so

Any chance of a macro shot of these little grey things on your zoos? They could be nudibranche's mebe, or some other parasite?

All the best
Rabbut

 

[ccskitten]

Hi Just found this web page

http/www.coralcorral.com/id19.html

It's got how to make a mantis trap on it.

 

[SkiFletch]

Yup, I'd try the bottle trap too

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Are you 100% sure its a mantis? did it happen to look anything like the picture below?

 

[N1z]

Well tbh i went OTT and made 2 traps shoved loads of live brineshrimp in them and most is now floating around now but i cld be chasing shadows but i swear i saw one, although in the dark it could of been an pod, but i have lost one hermit.... and have herd clicking only on 2 occasions...