Maybe they will have another batch which will fare better after they’ve been more acclimatised. I find the females look huge and struggle to move so just sit at the bottom before they are going to give birth. Maybe they ate the babies? Next batch you may be able to save some :)


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So all the guppies now reside in chamber 2 of the AIO section, i think i spot some babies as well in there or could be poop not sure at this stage. I need to get some craft mesh to cover the weir so this doesnt happen again, so temporarily they'll have to stay there

Ammonia seems to have bottomed out and nitrates are out 40 currently so will test before the weekend and do a water change to bring them to 10.  Might also dose ammonia to 2ppm and see where the tank is after 24 hours, will catch the guppies before this in the old water from WC

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They also have some of the best and most complicated eyes in the animal kingdom. They have multiple pupils per eye, you can see them moving around. They can see way beyond our visible spectrum right into X-ray spectrum iirc. Watch some YouTube vids like from MentalFloss on mantis eyes. They’re amazing. And the cavitation caused by their supersonic click is hotter than the surface of the sun. Lots of records broken by mantis shrimp.

They also have some of the best and most complicated eyes in the animal kingdom. They have multiple pupils per eye, you can see them moving around. They can see way beyond our visible spectrum right into X-ray spectrum iirc. Watch some YouTube vids like from MentalFloss on mantis eyes. They’re amazing. And the cavitation caused by their supersonic click is hotter than the surface of the sun. Lots of records broken by mantis shrimp.

Yeah ive been ever so sloghtly obsessed with them since getting ibto the hobby. I originally though i had one in my live rock but it turned out to be a pistol shrimp. Thankfully the one i should get is not a peacock mantis as i would need a much larger tank, on my way to fetch some macro for the tank for the shrimps arrival tomorrow. Excired and nervous at the same time

Oh yeah, it's pistol shrimp that do the cavitation click isn't it, mantis have hammers. I'm sure I recall my mantis clicking though. 

Yeah the smashers still do the cavitation trick, some species can actually make light from the force of the blow which is amazing and also a bit  mostly they use that to make tunnels in rocks or branching corals. Also for cracking food items or scaring away predators. The bigger mantis shrimps blows are equal force of a 0.22 bullet

Looking forward to this one @Ratvan

Do you know what species of shrimp it is? I looked up 'green mantis' and there were a few quite different ones.

I hope to know when it gets here at 4pm. Its either a G. Smithii or G. Viridis. Will have to ID by its meral spot if i can and if its a suitable size

Currently playing peek a boo with a shrimp