mantis id please

[DaddyJax]

Here is a little better pic of a mantis in need of an ID! http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/568/76054IMG_0920.JPG He is a smasher and very curious!!

[DaddyJax]

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/76054IMG_0926-med.JPG

[Gonodactylus]

Neogonodactylus wennerae

[DaddyJax]

Thanks Doc. Is there anything I should know about them?

[Gonodactylus]

They are a fairly tough stomatopod that gets to about 7 cm and lives up to 5 or 6 years.

Roy

[Jacob D]

Are you going to give him a rock or two to live in/under?

[DaddyJax]

He has two but likes to cruise around!! He will have a new home very soon!Too bad, I was starting to get attatched.

[Absint Reefer]

awww... your getting rid of him

[DaddyJax]

Yeah, unfortunately!! I have a 10g glass and a 1.5g nano and a 90g reef so I don't have a permanent place for one but I get them from fellow reefers as a rescue and find homes for them. I'm kind of like the Mantis Humane Society!! I trade them for frags or money! :D

[DaddyJax]

Although if I get one that is as gorgeous as that purple/blue mantis I will keep it for sure!!

[Scalare102079]

Gorgeous.... i would love to have a nice specimen such as that...... shipping would probably be a pita though.

[mantis-shrimp12]

I have one that just looks like that. Also does it have a hiding place because if it does not have one it will get very stresed and it might die.

[DaddyJax]

Oh yes! He has quite a lair of biomax cylinders!! http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/76054IMG_1168-med.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/76054Green_mantis.jpg

[Absint Reefer]

wow that tank looks pretty cool

[Jacob D]

Is that the same mantis?? Looks green in the last pic.

[DaddyJax]

no its another one that needs a home and an ID.

[Jacob D]

The white (and red?) spots on the appendages look similar to my G. viridis, but I wouldn't call that an ID.