Tern questions :)

Hadla · 06/04/2018, 08:46 AM

I’m looking at getting one from someone else and was wondering if it needs to have live coral to make its home? Or will it use rubble and rocks? Thanks

Gonodactylus · 06/04/2018, 09:22 AM

In the wild they are usually found living in branching live coral heads, but in the aquarium they will live in rubble.

Roy

Hadla · 06/04/2018, 02:00 PM

Oh good, thanks!

mndfreeze · 06/06/2018, 11:33 PM

I made mine a pseudo cave with the way I aquascaped, and he took rubble and shells and made it more to his liking. I had some SPS in the tank and some encrusting corals that were above and around his hole that eventually grew in quite well.

Not sure if he actively "stopped" the coral from spreading over or into his burrow, but it encrusted to a near perfect circle around the entrance and never went farther in even though light penetrated another half inch. You could also definitely hear him chipping away at pieces inside.

Jlentz · 06/07/2018, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by mndfreeze

I made mine a pseudo cave with the way I aquascaped, and he took rubble and shells and made it more to his liking. I had some SPS in the tank and some encrusting corals that were above and around his hole that eventually grew in quite well.

Not sure if he actively "stopped" the coral from spreading over or into his burrow, but it encrusted to a near perfect circle around the entrance and never went farther in even though light penetrated another half inch. You could also definitely hear him chipping away at pieces inside.

That’s awesome.

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06/04/2018, 08:46 AM	#1
Hadla Mantis Whisperer Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 574	Tern questions :) I’m looking at getting one from someone else and was wondering if it needs to have live coral to make its home? Or will it use rubble and rocks? Thanks __________________ Aquarium count: 7 salt: 2x10g, 29 biocube, 30g, 55g, 75g, 225g, and one fresh 20g planted tank! Puffer, octopus, and mantis shrimp fanatic!

06/04/2018, 02:00 PM	#3
Hadla Mantis Whisperer Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 574	Oh good, thanks! __________________ Aquarium count: 7 salt: 2x10g, 29 biocube, 30g, 55g, 75g, 225g, and one fresh 20g planted tank! Puffer, octopus, and mantis shrimp fanatic!

06/04/2018, 09:22 AM	#2
Gonodactylus Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Berkeley, CA, USA Posts: 5,024	In the wild they are usually found living in branching live coral heads, but in the aquarium they will live in rubble. Roy

06/06/2018, 11:33 PM	#4
mndfreeze Invert Sexy Time! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Tempe, AZ Posts: 2,255	I made mine a pseudo cave with the way I aquascaped, and he took rubble and shells and made it more to his liking. I had some SPS in the tank and some encrusting corals that were above and around his hole that eventually grew in quite well. Not sure if he actively "stopped" the coral from spreading over or into his burrow, but it encrusted to a near perfect circle around the entrance and never went farther in even though light penetrated another half inch. You could also definitely hear him chipping away at pieces inside.