Hey all! This is my first post on this forum but have been lurking gathering information for quite awhile, so thank you for all of that!
I had a question for any mantis shrimp experts out there. About a little over a month ago now, I purchased and received a peacock mantis shrimp and it's been doing well, very interactive when I do see it outside of it's burrow.
One thing i did notice about it is that it seems to be pretty docile towards the snails and hermit crabs I purchased for it to eat. I did give it a couple of goldfish and it swooped them up and took them into it's burrow. I recently purchased a crayfish from my LFS and put it in the tank but my mantis shrimp didn't do much to it. I maybe saw one or two punches but it didn't really go after it. I have been giving it thawed out pieces of shrimp until now. I wanted to try to get it to eat live foods but it doesn't seem to want to kill it's food besides goldfish.
Has anyone ever had an issue like this? Is there some sort of concern? Thank you all!
I had a question for any mantis shrimp experts out there. About a little over a month ago now, I purchased and received a peacock mantis shrimp and it's been doing well, very interactive when I do see it outside of it's burrow.
One thing i did notice about it is that it seems to be pretty docile towards the snails and hermit crabs I purchased for it to eat. I did give it a couple of goldfish and it swooped them up and took them into it's burrow. I recently purchased a crayfish from my LFS and put it in the tank but my mantis shrimp didn't do much to it. I maybe saw one or two punches but it didn't really go after it. I have been giving it thawed out pieces of shrimp until now. I wanted to try to get it to eat live foods but it doesn't seem to want to kill it's food besides goldfish.
Has anyone ever had an issue like this? Is there some sort of concern? Thank you all!