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10-14-2006, 02:31 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Arizona
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|  Ram Man's 5 gallon cube of death. This thread is to show the progress of my 5 gallon mantis cube. I will be adding a coral this weekend, and every other weekend hopefully. Here are some pictures from the past, because the ones from now are depressing for me, half of the croals are gone, i currently only have 1 frag of zoas and a splitting mushroom coral. This is when the cube was first started.  Here is a pic of the mantis exploring his new home.  This was my ricordia mushroom, my favorite of my corals, then i found it being eaten my an emerald crab...  Here is a pic of the mantis shrimp coming closer to the glass, either curious or wanting some mysis shrimp.  Here is a pic of him looking back at the camera. 
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10-14-2006, 02:38 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada
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| ur tank looks so dirty
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10-14-2006, 02:41 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wisconsin
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| That mantis shrimp is the coolest! Nice tank. My brother just started a 5g nano and has some hermit crabs with zoas and mushrooms.
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10-14-2006, 04:01 PM
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| reason it looks dirty and cloudy is because the pics were right after a rearrangment of the rocks and a water change to help clear the cloudyness up. Ill mkae sure to take the mag float out during the next picture taking session. these are 2 pics of the mantis shrimps burrow  
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10-14-2006, 06:59 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: sunny florida
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| looks awsome ram man keep up the good work, i love your shrimp lol
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10-15-2006, 02:49 AM
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10-15-2006, 01:07 PM
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| Another reason the tank looks dirty is because of the type of animal im keeping. Mantis shrimp are not the cleanest eaters, when he killed the emerald crab alot of clearish juices and some meat spilled out of the corpse. Some info about mantis shrimp... These are smart animals as far as inverts go, studies at berkeley university in california have showed that these animals are just as smart as octopi, the larger species can be a bit smarter to. In the wild mantis shrimp communicate with one another by useing polorized light, some use it by reflecting this light back to others useing their meral spots, others use fan like anntanae on their heads. Some of their natural food consists of the following, but most of the foot depends on the type of mantis, smashers and spearers. Smasher food list. 1. hermits crabs 2.snails 3.crabs 4.(usualy only for the peacock mantis)the blue ringed octopus. Spearer food list. 1.fish 2.squid 4.shrimp 5.octopi One of the problems of keeping a mantis shrimp in a small aquarium is they like to store any food they dont eat in there burrow for later, this is bad in a small aquarium due to polution.
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10-15-2006, 08:01 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
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| I also think that this is a great tank. I'm really into nanos(although i have none myself) and think your mantis is nasty and awesome at the same time. Keep us posted with more pics.
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10-15-2006, 08:06 PM
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| Ahh... loosing riccordia isnt fun. Reds are quite pricey, though if I recall you got this one really cheap because the guy didnt know what it was. Tank looks good.
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