Anyone else hand training their mantis shrimp?

Started training p. Cilliata, I am able to rub her back for a min. Before she runs off, once she gets more used to me I will be picking her up and hand feeding her, haven't done much with my smashers yet, although g. Glabrous, gabby has done some training with me LOL she has smacked me three times when I'm cleaning the glass and moving stuff she's buried, one of the times it broke the skin, but I will eventually try to handle her, now that she is alot more used to me, of course I'm sure I will get hit a few more times LOL so anyone else doing any hand training?

 

cant they take your fingers off?

 

Haha fat chance. I fully grown peacock has a chance at breaking a bone, but that's it. Plus there's the cutting fingers open thing...but nothing digit or limb threatening.


Princess my 1.5" N. Wennerae will gladly take food from my hand, but the last time I tried to feed Bo our 3" G. Smithii he whacked me in the finger goood. My mom put a thread on here somewhere about it. Thankfully no broken skin because he got me on my thumbnail, but I pole vaulted in high school and now I rock climb, so bleeding hands is nothing to me. I'll definitely try Bo again, but for now he needs to get a little more used to us

We have a blenny that let's us pet him and scratch him. He'll come sit on your hand if it's in the water. He's definitely a weirdo. One of my favorite fish

 

i can hand feed and pet my 4 or so inch peacock

 

My dads peacock, Hercules Is a massive 6 inch or so and he is actually very mellow acting he let's me pick him up with a net or rub his back but I'm I little scared to do too much with him, his clubs are almost as big as my finger tips! And ive seen him hit huge snails so hard that shell and dust will go everywhere, just like a bomb went off

 

yea my Fred is very strange for a mantis ( I think Freds a female >,< ) Very strange , extreamly mellow hes always layin around in the tank. He likes to lay on his back even will sleep on it out in the open lol very very strange. I bet I could pick him up if I wanted

 

Fred sounds like a male, males are usually very mellow and relaxed and also very dull sometimes, so yea next time he's on his back just look right behind the last pair of walking legs and if you see two little sticks coming together like a V then it's a male

 

yea thats what ive been doing i dont see the gono whatevers so thats what let me to believe it was a female >,<

 

Most def a female then, got any pics?

 

none of fred on his back but lots of pics if you check the link in my sig