mantis help

Hi everyone, I brought my peacock mantis shrimp home on Saturday evening (June 22nd). She has been exhibiting some odd behavior that I assumed was just her trying to settle in/stress from the new environment but now I’m wondering if she is trying to molt or is at the beginning of her molt...

Hello Everyone, tl;dr - Mantis shrimp are not living for more than 6 months. Need advice. I am involved with the maintenance and upkeep of an aquarium system in a facility that deals with mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus). The system had successfully kept and maintained mantis for 8 or...

I found what I think is a male N. wennerae on some live rock from TBS a while back and set up a dedicated species tank for it. It's been a few months and I recently noticed a tiny long white creature swimming around. After taking it out with a pipette, here's what it looks like: Do I actually...

So, I plan on getting a mantis shrimp but I’m concerned about feeding it. I’m also wondering where the cheapest place is to buy them? I’m in WA so probably online. For feeding I want to give it live food at least 2x a week, is there anyway I can keep live food over an extended period of time...

Hey all! I posted awhile back about my beautiful peacock not smashing hermit crabs or turbo snails in tank. After a few suggestions I bought a crayfish to see if it would be big enough for it to smash and eat but it didn't seem to workout and almost seemed like mantis was losing the battle so I...

My smithi mantis was eating awesome and looked nice and healthy he then started to build a blockade in his cave as many mantis shrimp do to molt I thought he was dead on the end of week 3 so I tried to take it apart and they were wedged in there good! I opened a small crack and stuck the dull...