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02/01/2018, 02:50 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
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anyone ever catch there own?
i live on the coast of NC and thought it would be cool to get a local mantis from the waters here. has anyone every tried catching there own mantis before? I have talked to some of the shrimp boat guys I know and they say they see em and caught some while getting shrimp in, but where to start lol.
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02/02/2018, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Berkeley, CA, USA
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I have caught literally hundreds of thousands of stomatopods - but mostly in tropical waters. There are fewer than a dozen species of mantis shrimp in North Carolina waters but only three or four are common and only a couple are easily accessible. Squilla empusa are taken by shrimpers, but also can be caught from burrows in extreme low intertidal mud flats. Coronis might be collected from low intertidal sand flats using a Yabbie Pump. Neogonodactylus wennerae occurs in cavities but generally below 20 feet,
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02/02/2018, 12:01 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
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ok thanks so much. so glad you share your info on here. might just have to see if I can get one of the shrimp boats to save me one if they are willing. what is something to looking out for if I search mud flats if you don't mind me asking
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02/07/2018, 12:24 AM
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MANTISMAN
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Gonodak
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I catch/caught lots of Odontodactylus Scyllarus as they are the easiest to find and capture for me (at the moment), can't go diving and not see one.
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