The Puffer Forum

well i am starting up a mantis shrimp supplier based in the east coast and have a few connections. they are SUPER HARDY! and and very easy. main thing you need to watch is salinity. huge problems when there are any huge swings from evaporation. but take regular care of you tank like you would you freshwater tank and you will be fine. check out this site. if you are interested let me know i will gladly find you one. they say availability at the bottom of each species. i can find rare ones but will take more time. i can get these (o. scyllarus), Pseudosquilla ciliata which are small spearers, Gonodactylus chiragra (smasher), Neogonodactylus wennerae (smasher), Gonodactylus smithii (smasher) and sometime a Gonodactylaceus glabrous will come in.

here is the site.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda ... #directory

I really like the O.Scyllarus since it's active both day and night and interactive ....according to the website. I also like the Gonodactylus smithii and the fact that it doesn't require too big of a tank. I'll have my husband look over the website and see what he really likes..Thanks for all the information!

What happened to our mantis-coral trade?

someone yanked her from my friends shop where he was holding it for me while he was away this past week. his phone broke and the people working there couldnt get a hold of him about it so since it was there for a while they sold it even tho i had it on hold there paid for....im very upset. i have to place another order now.

Awww... darn it!

im really sorry

It's alright... Getting kind of chilly for shipping anyway.

good point

Hey if you dont mind me posting this (take off if you dont i wont mind) i started my online mantis store and can find you a peacock now or other's store should be up tomorrow. got two in stock this http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda ... _platysoma (male 3") and a http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda ... =p_ciliata (female 3" neon green super active).

http://www.mymantisshrimp.com

let me know if your still interested!

those guys are so cool!!!

mean little buggers but pretty! definately has that "macho" esteeme

I am but isn't it still too cold to ship? I'd still love to do a trade with you. Feel free to post an add in our Classifieds.

Great pictures!

I've been housing a Mantis shrimp named Manny for a few months now.

Could you tell me how to tell it's gender? Mine is a little mantis shrimp, brown of color with red legs and is about 2 inches in size. Not as colorfull as yours tho! But then again, there are over 400 different species I looked in that index you posted of species but mine is not in there

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there he is prob a g. chiragra or wennerae where did he come from. the tell the diff in sex at the last walking pair of legs there will be hanging next the them on the underside of the mantis two brownish or prob greenish in your mantis things that look like sticks. that would be a male. nothing there and a small slit by last walking pair of legs is a female. here are two pics to help you out.
Male Female

Hmmm... no pics there.

there ya go!
and yes still very cold...