ARGH! Mantis shrimp have bred!

Yes, it's true. I have been fiddling with this x-terminator mantis trap, and
although I succeeded in catching my gorilla crab, I have at least 2 mantis
still in my 40 gallon and now they have bred. I noticed an unusual amount of
clicking the night before, so much so that I was convinced they were
building an underground parking lot in my tank. Anyway, I wake up this
morning and I see a 2" mantis sticking its head out of its hole. Then it
extends its arms and releases 10-15 little mantis shrimp into the water.
This action continues every 20-30 seconds. I have literally hundreds of
mantis shrimp fry swimming around in the tank and refugium. This is exactly
the opposite of what I was hoping for when I got into the hobby. Is here
anything I can do? Is there any demand for mantis babies?

Joel

"Joel" wrote in message link.net...
Then it extends its arms and releases 10-15 little mantis shrimp
into the water. This action continues every 20-30 seconds.

This would be very cool to watch... ;-)

I have literally hundreds of
mantis shrimp fry swimming around in the tank and refugium. This is exactly
the opposite of what I was hoping for when I got into the hobby.

Oh really? I am always happy seeing my cleaner shrimps to breed :-)
My tank is full of planktonic larvae every week because of them.

Is here
anything I can do? Is there any demand for mantis babies?

Any plankton eating fish will love you if you let it snack on them.

I can't help you with the Mantis's, though go on to www.reefsanctuary.com
and sign up. Then post that question. I know a lot of people do research on
Mantis's there, and they can help you!

HTH

"Joel" wrote in message
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Yes, it's true. I have been fiddling with this x-terminator mantis trap,
and
although I succeeded in catching my gorilla crab, I have at least 2 mantis
still in my 40 gallon and now they have bred. I noticed an unusual amount
of
clicking the night before, so much so that I was convinced they were
building an underground parking lot in my tank. Anyway, I wake up this
morning and I see a 2" mantis sticking its head out of its hole. Then it
extends its arms and releases 10-15 little mantis shrimp into the water.
This action continues every 20-30 seconds. I have literally hundreds of
mantis shrimp fry swimming around in the tank and refugium. This is
exactly
the opposite of what I was hoping for when I got into the hobby. Is here
anything I can do? Is there any demand for mantis babies?

Joel

If it's going to get bad, you can remove as much stuff from your tank and
put it into another tank, the does your tank with high levels of ammonia or
even turn your heater up to the max and cook them.

There will be no doublt that you have these small guys in the rocks too, if
you have fish as well you can remove them to a temp tank for some time and
put in a few small perch, don't feed the tank, and the perch will attack
them while they are small enough. I had a small perch in my tank for about 2
months before I knew what it was and it was eating every small shrimp, worm,
fry that it could get.

I don't know how shrimp respond to salinity changes, if they hate it then
remove most of what you can and put in fresh water, even straight from the
tank and left them suck clorine for a while.

Manualy removing them now seem like a wasted efford, time to go for drastic
methods.


"Joel" wrote in message
link.net...
Yes, it's true. I have been fiddling with this x-terminator mantis trap,
and
although I succeeded in catching my gorilla crab, I have at least 2 mantis
still in my 40 gallon and now they have bred. I noticed an unusual amount
of
clicking the night before, so much so that I was convinced they were
building an underground parking lot in my tank. Anyway, I wake up this
morning and I see a 2" mantis sticking its head out of its hole. Then it
extends its arms and releases 10-15 little mantis shrimp into the water.
This action continues every 20-30 seconds. I have literally hundreds of
mantis shrimp fry swimming around in the tank and refugium. This is
exactly
the opposite of what I was hoping for when I got into the hobby. Is here
anything I can do? Is there any demand for mantis babies?

Joel

they will not make it, as they will have no food to eat....
"skozzy" wrote in message
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If it's going to get bad, you can remove as much stuff from your tank and
put it into another tank, the does your tank with high levels of ammonia
or
even turn your heater up to the max and cook them.

There will be no doublt that you have these small guys in the rocks too,
if
you have fish as well you can remove them to a temp tank for some time and
put in a few small perch, don't feed the tank, and the perch will attack
them while they are small enough. I had a small perch in my tank for about
2
months before I knew what it was and it was eating every small shrimp,
worm,
fry that it could get.

I don't know how shrimp respond to salinity changes, if they hate it then
remove most of what you can and put in fresh water, even straight from the
tank and left them suck clorine for a while.

Manualy removing them now seem like a wasted efford, time to go for
drastic
methods.


"Joel" wrote in message
link.net...
Yes, it's true. I have been fiddling with this x-terminator mantis trap,
and
although I succeeded in catching my gorilla crab, I have at least 2
mantis
still in my 40 gallon and now they have bred. I noticed an unusual
amount
of
clicking the night before, so much so that I was convinced they were
building an underground parking lot in my tank. Anyway, I wake up this
morning and I see a 2" mantis sticking its head out of its hole. Then it
extends its arms and releases 10-15 little mantis shrimp into the water.
This action continues every 20-30 seconds. I have literally hundreds of
mantis shrimp fry swimming around in the tank and refugium. This is
exactly
the opposite of what I was hoping for when I got into the hobby. Is here
anything I can do? Is there any demand for mantis babies?

Joel