Feclar
12/02/2008, 04:04 AM
Slightly concerned at this point
Tiny peacock mantis, 2.5" now I think
My mantis is at work, over thanksgiving I fed him on Wednesday then went in on Sunday to feed and change water (long stretch for him)
He abandoned his burrow and formed some weird sand tunnel using a piece of rock that touched the back plastic of the tank, you can see all the way thru this tunnel to the other side as it runs along the back of the tank, it is also not very long, smaller then his L-Shaped rock tunnel, his old burrow was on the sand, the rock created a cave, he had done extensive rework of this burrow.
He had moved 60% of the sand in the tank to the back corner where the water vents thru to the filtration, now the lowest sand level is about 1/2" and the corner he has highest point is about 3" of sand, he had built the sand up in the front of the tank near his earlier burrow to about 2" of sand, typically the entire tank is 1.5" of sandbed
He was approx 40% more active than I have ever seen him, creepy to see him so often and he seems more aggressive.
He was harassing a long time inhabitant a tube anemone to the point that the anemone never came out of the tube all day
The disturbing part thou is that he would swim towards the left wall (closest wall to his burrow) and then halfway up the wall and then smack the glass and swim away, he did this atleast once an hour, different spots of the glass
I am concerned he is smacking the glass and would like to deter that.
I have been wanting to redo the rock work, now I am thinking of adding more sand to raise the level to 3" across the entire tank and reorganizing the rocks so he goes back to his original burrow and actually just replacing all the rocks with one giant rock on top of a reverse Y shaped 2" pvc pipe.
Not sure if I should do this because he may be preparing for a molt, I have not noticed him molt in the 6ish months I have had him, have seen him close up his burrow 100% atleast twice thou but only over night, usually he leaves the door open
Opinions?
Tiny peacock mantis, 2.5" now I think
My mantis is at work, over thanksgiving I fed him on Wednesday then went in on Sunday to feed and change water (long stretch for him)
He abandoned his burrow and formed some weird sand tunnel using a piece of rock that touched the back plastic of the tank, you can see all the way thru this tunnel to the other side as it runs along the back of the tank, it is also not very long, smaller then his L-Shaped rock tunnel, his old burrow was on the sand, the rock created a cave, he had done extensive rework of this burrow.
He had moved 60% of the sand in the tank to the back corner where the water vents thru to the filtration, now the lowest sand level is about 1/2" and the corner he has highest point is about 3" of sand, he had built the sand up in the front of the tank near his earlier burrow to about 2" of sand, typically the entire tank is 1.5" of sandbed
He was approx 40% more active than I have ever seen him, creepy to see him so often and he seems more aggressive.
He was harassing a long time inhabitant a tube anemone to the point that the anemone never came out of the tube all day
The disturbing part thou is that he would swim towards the left wall (closest wall to his burrow) and then halfway up the wall and then smack the glass and swim away, he did this atleast once an hour, different spots of the glass
I am concerned he is smacking the glass and would like to deter that.
I have been wanting to redo the rock work, now I am thinking of adding more sand to raise the level to 3" across the entire tank and reorganizing the rocks so he goes back to his original burrow and actually just replacing all the rocks with one giant rock on top of a reverse Y shaped 2" pvc pipe.
Not sure if I should do this because he may be preparing for a molt, I have not noticed him molt in the 6ish months I have had him, have seen him close up his burrow 100% atleast twice thou but only over night, usually he leaves the door open
Opinions?