Tiny Little Mantis

[HorseSea]

Found this little guy in a friends tank, apparently it is there 5 years. I had no idea what it was but is seems it is a dwarf mantis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLGIK4-rhA

On the basis that it is so small I am assuming it will be no harm in a nano reef?

[curlykid]

I had one of those when i started out! it was prolly an adult, it was about 1 inch big. I killed it. :(

[nikesb4l]

i wouldnt be posting that you killed it on a mantis forum.

awesome video thanks for sharing!

[Gonodactylus]

This is a species that I have never seen. I would be very interested in describing it.
I would very much like to discuss this. Please PM me.
Roy

[re_sjo]

Awesome looking stomatopod!

[sTefaniA]

It reminds me Chorisquilla tweediei

[Gonodactylus]

It is definitely a protosquilloid and probably Chorisquilla, but definitely not C. tweediei.

Roy

[sjmantis]

Wow that is so cool looking. Got any pictures of it out of the burrow?

[Gonodactylus]

If not a Chorisquilla, it could be a Protosquilla.

See attached photo.

[HorseSea]

Thanks for the information, I will try and get a better photo of him.

I don't believe he has been out at all, the owner that has known about him 5 years had never seen him out as far as he was on the video.

[Giga]

dude awesome mantis

[Wildinside]

nice reflexes on that little guy! At the end of the vid that little pod was buzzing by at a good speed but the mantis snagged it no problem! I wish I had a few of these in a big reef tank!

[rekn]

This is a species that I have never seen. I would be very interested in describing it.
I would very much like to discuss this. Please PM me.
Roy

:eek::eek::eek::eek:


i want 1! he looks amazing

[romsoccer12]

looks like one of those black and white striped spearers just a small one

[VacavilleFC3S]

LOL... Roy's drooling over the unknown mantis, i'm drooling over this guys camera


he also has quite the aiptasia farm going on there.

[DanInSD]

Not aiptasia. Clove polyps or Xenia.

Dan