<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289327.msg14286244#msg14286244">Quote from: Envious on 20-07-2018, 19:38:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Vergil, I have been won over by your bribe!<br/><br/>Chanticleer, my husband bought rock from Florida and was hoping to get one in the mix, but he also has a few separate tanks to drop it in. They're one of his favorites.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sadly the Gulf of Mexico mantis shrimp aren't nearly as colorful as the peacocks. They're sort of an umber-green with orange-isn eyes.<br/><br/>And that's EXACTLY what ate my tank. He was about 4.5" long the one time I saw him. They're seriously sneaky. I had to sit still in front of the tank for about twenty minutes after it went into night mode.<br/><br/>If it's from the company I'm guessing (which will send you the rock, then a while later send you a package of snails, small crabs, and a couple of anemones) then be sure he gets any mantises out of his aquarium before he adds in the snails, crabs, etc. The mantis will bust them up just for the hell of it. They definitely don't eat everything they kill, and you need all of those little scavengers to deal with the parts of your live rock that didn't make the transition. Friend of mine used that package, worked well for him. I got my mantis as a hitchhicker on a few extra pieces of live rock I added and kept down in my sump for a while. Then I made the mistake of moving them up to my main tank. :(