Help, Fish with Mantis

[dustin86]

So i have a vivarium and i was wanting to put a small goldfish pond underneath the mantis living space so that the mantis could come down to the pond and hunt fish, is this good or bad, it would look cool with the mixture of plants, mantis and fish?

thoughts??

 

[jrh3]

I wouldnt do it. What species are you talking about?

 

[patrickfraser]

Sounds like trouble. The mantis may drown.

 

[happy1892]

I would not do that. The mantids I have seen do not seem to be able to swim at all.

 

[stacy]

But it looks fun

http://youtu.be/yReEXQkDw5w

 

[patrickfraser]

Looks like a dead mantis. Fun at the beginning, but they CANNOT breathe under water. Did you notice in the second video the mantis is headless? The fish must of got it first. lol

 

[happy1892]

Looks like a dead mantis. Fun at the beginning, but they CANNOT breathe under water. Did you notice in the second video the mantis is headless? The fish must of got it first. lol

In the second video that was a kind of true bug and it was not headless.

 

[patrickfraser]

In the second video that was a kind of true bug and it was not headless.

Yeah...and Santa Clause lives at the North Pole with the Abominable Snowman. What kind of "true bug" is it, if it isn't a headless mantis????

 

[happy1892]

Yeah...and Santa Clause lives at the North Pole with the Abominable Snowman. What kind of "true bug" is it, if it isn't a headless mantis????

Let me find out. I just started looking...........................................................

 

[happy1892]

Some kind of Water Scorpion? That was in South Korea, I know about those. Ranatra chinensis or Ranatra unicolor? I think Ranatra chinensis because it seems big enough (I know that kind of fish) and Ranatra unicolor seems too small.

 

[kitkat39]

Yeah...and Santa Clause lives at the North Pole with the Abominable Snowman. What kind of "true bug" is it, if it isn't a headless mantis????

Ranatra

 

[kitkat39]

So i have a vivarium and i was wanting to put a small goldfish pond underneath the mantis living space so that the mantis could come down to the pond and hunt fish, is this good or bad, it would look cool with the mixture of plants, mantis and fish?

thoughts??

Have fun watching your mantis drown. Plenty of folks on the forum have mantis they'll want to sell you. ;-)

 

[dustin86]

so i decided against the water thing after a few comments, thanks for the input, instead put in dirt sod and plants for him to climb so it look like the outdoor environment, caught some flies he has already devoured three flies. We named him Mr. Green after the hulk.

 

[Mime454]

I fed one of my Chineses a gold fish one time from a very small water dish. It seemed to enjoy it.

 

[patrickfraser]

Some kind of Water Scorpion? That was in South Korea, I know about those. Ranatra chinensis or Ranatra unicolor? I think Ranatra chinensis because it seems big enough (I know that kind of fish) and Ranatra unicolor seems too small.

OK, whatever it is, it isn't a water mantis, is it?????

 

[Gill]

I have to comment each time I see feeding verterbrates to inverterbrates so here I go again. Feeding live verterbrates to other animals is illegal thankfully in the UK. Yep that includes mice to snakes, we feed them already dead. In particular the way a mantis eats the verterbrate, mouse, fish, bird, it is not a swift end, Regardless of what goes on in the wild it is not nessesary to cause suffering yourself.

 

[angelofdeathzz]

Have fun watching your mantis drown. Plenty of folks on the forum have mantis they'll want to sell you. ;-)

Not to mention fish are loaded with bacteria, mainly from the water they live in, they need it but a mantis could become sick and die from it, it's just a silly juvenile thing to do on top of it. <_<

Keep it simple for some people here happy1892, and just say its a "water bug" not a mantis, before they get all grumpy lol...

 

[Mime454]

I have to comment each time I see feeding verterbrates to inverterbrates so here I go again. Feeding live verterbrates to other animals is illegal thankfully in the UK. Yep that includes mice to snakes, we feed them already dead. In particular the way a mantis eats the verterbrate, mouse, fish, bird, it is not a swift end, Regardless of what goes on in the wild it is not nessesary to cause suffering yourself.

How do they enforce this law?

 

[happy1892]

OK, whatever it is, it isn't a water mantis, is it?????

Oh, I found out that Ranatra chinensis in english is called a Water Mantis but I guess they are not called that much.

<_< Keep it simple for some people here happy1892, and just say its a "water bug" not a mantis, before they get all grumpy lol...

Haha, really? Better to know as much as you can if it is importent and this might not be to many people.