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Unread 08/06/2011, 09:04 PM   #101
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Will N. Wennerae ever wonder around outside his/her house during the day? Will it come out to see me once I walk over to the tank, or not..?


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Unread 12/10/2012, 02:13 AM   #102
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great info. thanks Dr Roy

can you ID the species of my pet please?




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Unread 12/10/2012, 08:40 AM   #103
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I'm going to go with Chiragra on this one.


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Unread 12/10/2012, 11:38 AM   #104
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One of several color morphs of G. chiragra.

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Unread 01/25/2013, 04:09 PM   #105
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Unread 03/15/2013, 11:53 AM   #106
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What an excellent resource, thank you.


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Unread 03/28/2013, 03:07 PM   #107
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Dr Roy, i just got a Gond. Viridis .. and..

Ok so i got my mantis .. hes was slow drip acclimated and let loose and very active.. He went up to the biggest rock in the tank and dug his hole at the base. Took just seconds and he was hidden. Now it's been day and a half and still no sign of movement, is this normal?



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Unread 04/16/2013, 02:45 PM   #108
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Just saw this.

Thank you!

My next tank I want to set up is a species tank and with this I can look at and determine what Mantis I want in it.


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Unread 02/04/2014, 07:20 AM   #109
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Hi everyone. Yesterday I found 3 mantises while packing up some live rock from Bali. It would be great if someone recognizes the species, and, if possible, can tell the sex of them.
Here's the first one, which I suspect is a G. smithii female, what do you think?







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Unread 02/04/2014, 07:24 AM   #110
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Second one, no idea what it is.












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Unread 02/04/2014, 07:27 AM   #111
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And third one, clueless to which species, but could it be a male?










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Unread 02/08/2014, 12:20 AM   #112
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The suspected G. smithii never recovered from the live rock trip unfortunately. The two small ones seem fine though and get along well - and even share burrow from time to time - in a 20 liter aquarium (~5,5 US gallon).
Still no one who has any clue on what species they could be? I'm eager to know!


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Unread 02/08/2014, 11:52 AM   #113
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They appear to be Gonodactylus viridis.

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Unread 02/08/2014, 12:23 PM   #114
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They appear to be Gonodactylus viridis.

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Both of them? Different color morphs? A female and a male?


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Unread 02/08/2014, 03:01 PM   #115
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Yes.


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Unread 03/15/2014, 04:10 AM   #116
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Great seeing this right after I got my first mantis ! I believe it's an H. Clypto. So small, and insanely fast ! It seems I got lucky and got one of the safest ones for other animals ? .. I do have a sexy shrimp.. what the best food I can directly feed it to keep his eyes off my hermits etc ?


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Unread 03/15/2014, 08:11 AM   #117
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Great seeing this right after I got my first mantis ! I believe it's an H. Clypto. So small, and insanely fast ! It seems I got lucky and got one of the safest ones for other animals ? .. I do have a sexy shrimp.. what the best food I can directly feed it to keep his eyes off my hermits etc ?
I kept a sexy shrimp with my O. Scyllarus without any problems. You can feed it brine shrimp, krill, clams, ect. They will eat just about anything.


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Unread 05/29/2014, 05:04 PM   #118
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Lysiosquillina maculata

Just bought this little guy and have tried everything in the book to get him to eat in front of me he has great color still ca kh and everything else great plenty of sand and I literally tried to give him the choice cut on silver sides, live grass shrimp , mises cubes, squid made it more to look alive and all he does is move it to the other side of the refugium and got back to his burrow. Is their anything else I can do. I Ask this because I don't think he has eaten and it's been a week unless he snagged some grass shrimp up when I was sleeping


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Unread 05/29/2014, 05:18 PM   #119
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Ir is not uncommon for a Lysiosquillina to go for a couple of weeks without eating. Hang in there.

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Unread 12/03/2014, 10:37 AM   #120
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Excellent resource! Thanks!!!


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Unread 04/01/2015, 11:54 AM   #121
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Tank sizes are in liters.

Color change with lighting and background color and pattern is common in many stomatopods - particularly gonodactyloids. It is most dramatic in a few species that occur over a wide depth range from the intertidal to > 30 m. Probably the most dramatic change in color and pattern is in Pseudosquilla ciliata, but Neogonodactylus wennerae and Gonodactylellus affinis also show dramatic shifts.

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Hi Roy,
I was wondering if this means by changing the distance from the light to the tank you are able to change a G. Chiragra's color scheme?
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Unread 04/01/2015, 12:31 PM   #122
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G. chiragra is one species that shows little color change in the aquarium. Differences seem to be mostly genetic. Moderate changes in intensity won't have much effect.

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Unread 04/01/2015, 05:01 PM   #123
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G. chiragra is one species that shows little color change in the aquarium. Differences seem to be mostly genetic. Moderate changes in intensity won't have much effect.

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Alright. So my G. chiragra changed from a very dark green with white horizontal lines on his body to a completely green color. That means he is going to stay green?

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Unread 04/29/2015, 01:23 PM   #124
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Thanks Roy.

When I began reefkeeping these monsters were nothing but pests. Thanks for being part of the understanding that these critters are intelligent and unique. Your consolidated sources of info make identification and care requirements a great place to plan and self educate. Thank you again.


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Unread 07/09/2015, 01:14 PM   #125
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