Kharn
08/05/2012, 02:17 AM
G'day all
Today I got a rather startling image at first I thought it was too good to be true but then realized what it all meant....
As some of you may know I have been keeping 2 x G.ternatensis together in the hopes that they get along since we were all positive at the time that they were a male and female.
Up until today the female (golden eyes) was living under an Acan encrusted piece of Rock at the front of the tank however this afternoon whilst browsing in the tank, I could hear hammering from under that Acan yet she had blocked up the side with rubble which usually allows for viewing under the rock.
Through peripheral vision I noticed movement in the corner of my eye and it attracted my gaze, it was the female she was outside in the tank at the very back left corner trying to build a small cavity out of rock...so the hammering from under her old Acan rock was the male, which I lifted up to confirm...he was feasting on her Molted skin and she was to scared to come out from the corners of the tank ='[ obviously a fight broke out and she was doing what she could to distance herself from him as fruitless as it was (she had like 1 rock on top of her for protection...)
Initially I wanted to catch HIM and put him into STAND A beside shockwave thus separating the 2 but he proved very difficult to catch and hence...I didn't catch him, she on the other hand in her frightened state was easy to catch, all I did was what I do to siphon water out of the tank cept I past the syphon over her, sucking her into it and into the waiting bucket.
All went well, she is currently acclimatizing to STAND A and has already cracked the container a few times confirming that she is at least past her molt, being so small I am not surprised.
I read the sign of her being backed up in the corner of the tank, stricken with fear and paranoid to it being that there was a fight and she lost it and now wanted out!
I treasure my G.ternatensis above all the other smaller critters (those less then 25mm since the G.T's themselves currently are) mostly due to the large potential they have of being great display animals =D I've heard a lot from people on here that had or has them.
At least I can rest easy now knowing that they are both safe and will get there fair share of food, comfort and entertainment (I have basically gone out again today collecting and got about 10-12 tiny thumbnail sized crabs for each compartment in STAND A, there the porcelain look a like crabs).
Here she is all scared and stuffed in the back left corner of the tank ='[
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4846/femalegt.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/femalegt.jpg/)
Here she is all safe and sound in the acclimatization tank (I always give my stomatopods a piece of PVC during acclimatization to help relieve the stress, a stomatopod that can hide is a happy stomatopod =D...).
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5893/femalegt2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/femalegt2.jpg/)
Personally I like her colors more then her male counterpart, she has much brighter coloration whilst he has much darker deeper coloration.
Also found this weird soft coral thingy growing on the other side of a rock that is hosting a large morph, didn't know it was there till I moved the rock around today but either way its BRIGHT vibrant red color with its fluro orange tips make it a very welcome sight =D makes me wonder how I didn't notice it but either way I positioned it so I can see it now and the morph, a really nice rock now 1 bright green morph and 1 bright red...something something LOL.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3048/unknownsoftthing.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/unknownsoftthing.jpg/)
Today I got a rather startling image at first I thought it was too good to be true but then realized what it all meant....
As some of you may know I have been keeping 2 x G.ternatensis together in the hopes that they get along since we were all positive at the time that they were a male and female.
Up until today the female (golden eyes) was living under an Acan encrusted piece of Rock at the front of the tank however this afternoon whilst browsing in the tank, I could hear hammering from under that Acan yet she had blocked up the side with rubble which usually allows for viewing under the rock.
Through peripheral vision I noticed movement in the corner of my eye and it attracted my gaze, it was the female she was outside in the tank at the very back left corner trying to build a small cavity out of rock...so the hammering from under her old Acan rock was the male, which I lifted up to confirm...he was feasting on her Molted skin and she was to scared to come out from the corners of the tank ='[ obviously a fight broke out and she was doing what she could to distance herself from him as fruitless as it was (she had like 1 rock on top of her for protection...)
Initially I wanted to catch HIM and put him into STAND A beside shockwave thus separating the 2 but he proved very difficult to catch and hence...I didn't catch him, she on the other hand in her frightened state was easy to catch, all I did was what I do to siphon water out of the tank cept I past the syphon over her, sucking her into it and into the waiting bucket.
All went well, she is currently acclimatizing to STAND A and has already cracked the container a few times confirming that she is at least past her molt, being so small I am not surprised.
I read the sign of her being backed up in the corner of the tank, stricken with fear and paranoid to it being that there was a fight and she lost it and now wanted out!
I treasure my G.ternatensis above all the other smaller critters (those less then 25mm since the G.T's themselves currently are) mostly due to the large potential they have of being great display animals =D I've heard a lot from people on here that had or has them.
At least I can rest easy now knowing that they are both safe and will get there fair share of food, comfort and entertainment (I have basically gone out again today collecting and got about 10-12 tiny thumbnail sized crabs for each compartment in STAND A, there the porcelain look a like crabs).
Here she is all scared and stuffed in the back left corner of the tank ='[
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4846/femalegt.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/femalegt.jpg/)
Here she is all safe and sound in the acclimatization tank (I always give my stomatopods a piece of PVC during acclimatization to help relieve the stress, a stomatopod that can hide is a happy stomatopod =D...).
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5893/femalegt2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/femalegt2.jpg/)
Personally I like her colors more then her male counterpart, she has much brighter coloration whilst he has much darker deeper coloration.
Also found this weird soft coral thingy growing on the other side of a rock that is hosting a large morph, didn't know it was there till I moved the rock around today but either way its BRIGHT vibrant red color with its fluro orange tips make it a very welcome sight =D makes me wonder how I didn't notice it but either way I positioned it so I can see it now and the morph, a really nice rock now 1 bright green morph and 1 bright red...something something LOL.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3048/unknownsoftthing.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/unknownsoftthing.jpg/)