Very Small Brown Spot/hole on Shell

[DogfoodEnforcer]

I tried the search function, it returned nothing on the two searches i got in before the search was disabled.lol

anyways, my new mantis shrimp has a very small hole with brown edges on the edge of one of her shell pieces (about 3 up from the tail). it is very small, but i'm still concerned.

ive tried feeding it mysis shrimp soaked in selcon to boost the nutrient value, but it ignores them.

ive done some searches online and havent dug up a lot, yet i remember reading a bunch of stuff on it (i think on here) about a year ago.

is this the kind of thing that might (hopefully) go away when the mantid molts?

what can i do to best help it out?

[nikesb4l]

what kind of mantis do you have? Might be shell rot look at the post called "Shell Rot"

[DogfoodEnforcer]

it is a G. Smithii

i was looking at that shell rot page and it doesnt look as nasty as that stuff!

it almost looks like he/she got a small chunk taken out of a part of the exoskeleton on the tail (what are those sections called?). its quite small, but i noticed it when he/she was cruising around. doesnt seem to bug it at all, but it still has me concerned.


either way, would an increase in vitamins and nutrition be the best bet?

[gozermantis]

my peacock formed a small hole once before a molt that was brownish around it and disappeared with next molt now there is a bright red dot where it was lol cause it was exposed to light before the rest lol

[DogfoodEnforcer]

here is a pic that shows the small dot/hole
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Mantis%20Shrimp/mantis007.jpg

i really hope it goes away with a successful molt!

[micstarz]

I think it will be alright! Nice picture!

[Tangalong]

DFE, I assume the disease is a slowly progressive one and wouldn't look that bad at first. If it hasn't extended past the shell and into the skin then maybe with a molt it will dissappear. I hope we can get a lot more information on this. If anyone in this Forum has experienced their Stomatopod having this please do tell us about it. It will be appreciated.

[Gonodactylus]

This looks to me more like a wound. The edges of stabs and smashes often are discolored - usually with the damaged cuticle turning brown. G. smithii rarely get shell disease, so I wouldn't worry too much unless the wound continues to grow.

Roy

[DogfoodEnforcer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15002873#post15002873 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gonodactylus
This looks to me more like a wound. The edges of stabs and smashes often are discolored - usually with the damaged cuticle turning brown. G. smithii rarely get shell disease, so I wouldn't worry too much unless the wound continues to grow.

Roy

thanks Dr. Caldwell. that puts me at ease!

it would make sense that it would be an old war wound. apparently the liverock shipment that it came in on was packing with mantids, so i would assume that there was a lot of mantis competition in the location from where the rock came from.

either way, it is in a good home now.