Food
Hello all
Thought I would make a post about the various food I feed the...various stomatopods I keep :D the diversity in it all is mostly derived from frozen/pre-made food as opposed to live food. I don't usually have specific days as to which they get fed each particular type of food and have sometimes mixed it up for the sake of mixing it up ;).
Octopus, the ones I get are about golf ball sized and Morgoth my largest mantis will take a whole one whilst others I cut them up for.
Prawns, being part of there diet normally particularly spearers, hence one of there common name "Prawn Assassin" the Prawns I get are quite large so Morgoth will take about 1/2-3/4 of it whole or up to that if I dice it up and feed him in intervals.
Whitebait, takes up the fish side of there diet also being neat ad small there easy to feed Morgoth easily takes one of these.
Sand Crab, I dig the meat out of the carapace of the crab and Tweezer feed to each Mantis in order to cover this side of there diet and once again add to the diversity.
Pipi, this adds to more diversity in there diets, with the smashers I will leave the flesh on the pipi of in Maximus's case....throw a whole one in =) as for the Morgoth I will break one open and pull the flesh out feeding it too him with tweezers.
I like to consider the above more of "main courses" to top off each feeding there is also diced up Krill, Mysis & Brine Shrimp.
Even those these things are gut buckets and what I have said above may sound like I over feed them....however this is not the case, they are fed 2-3times a week tops and can go over a week without food and have been reported to feed multiple times in a single day in the wild, it just depends on what they can capture and how much of it.
They are however clean animals, they discard and literal "throw away" anything that is unwanted interms of left over or just not hungry/wants something else, I let them all have there fill for a good 10-15mins then go back to check on the food that they have thrown out of there burrows in the hopes that either the current / that giant hand removes it further from there vicinity. :D
I like to think there happy being provided such a vast variety of food
Live Food comes down to starvation, opportunity. I have seen some of my smashers crack and eat the snails I have thrown in with them however they do not actively go for them as soon as I add them they are snacking on them in between meals. As for Morgoth the spearer well its hard to get footage of him capturing live prey since he feasts at will and there is still 4-5 fish left that he ca take at will, he knows when its dark and his chances increase either that or he waits for that big hand with random tasty things. :p
All in all I just hope there happy and that this helps to provide an understand in what I feed my mantis shrimps.
Thought I would make a post about the various food I feed the...various stomatopods I keep :D the diversity in it all is mostly derived from frozen/pre-made food as opposed to live food. I don't usually have specific days as to which they get fed each particular type of food and have sometimes mixed it up for the sake of mixing it up ;).
Octopus, the ones I get are about golf ball sized and Morgoth my largest mantis will take a whole one whilst others I cut them up for.
Prawns, being part of there diet normally particularly spearers, hence one of there common name "Prawn Assassin" the Prawns I get are quite large so Morgoth will take about 1/2-3/4 of it whole or up to that if I dice it up and feed him in intervals.
Whitebait, takes up the fish side of there diet also being neat ad small there easy to feed Morgoth easily takes one of these.
Sand Crab, I dig the meat out of the carapace of the crab and Tweezer feed to each Mantis in order to cover this side of there diet and once again add to the diversity.
Pipi, this adds to more diversity in there diets, with the smashers I will leave the flesh on the pipi of in Maximus's case....throw a whole one in =) as for the Morgoth I will break one open and pull the flesh out feeding it too him with tweezers.
I like to consider the above more of "main courses" to top off each feeding there is also diced up Krill, Mysis & Brine Shrimp.
Even those these things are gut buckets and what I have said above may sound like I over feed them....however this is not the case, they are fed 2-3times a week tops and can go over a week without food and have been reported to feed multiple times in a single day in the wild, it just depends on what they can capture and how much of it.
They are however clean animals, they discard and literal "throw away" anything that is unwanted interms of left over or just not hungry/wants something else, I let them all have there fill for a good 10-15mins then go back to check on the food that they have thrown out of there burrows in the hopes that either the current / that giant hand removes it further from there vicinity. :D
I like to think there happy being provided such a vast variety of food
Live Food comes down to starvation, opportunity. I have seen some of my smashers crack and eat the snails I have thrown in with them however they do not actively go for them as soon as I add them they are snacking on them in between meals. As for Morgoth the spearer well its hard to get footage of him capturing live prey since he feasts at will and there is still 4-5 fish left that he ca take at will, he knows when its dark and his chances increase either that or he waits for that big hand with random tasty things. :p
All in all I just hope there happy and that this helps to provide an understand in what I feed my mantis shrimps.
