id please
Submitted by fisho-ron on Sat, 2011-04-23 14:53
hi guys
was out prawning on friday night and scooped this up thinking it was a prawn, looks like a prawn cross mortan bay bug!!!
can someone enlighten me?
thanks ron
till
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Mantis Shrimp
Mantis Shrimp
I see a few diving in the Swan for King Prawns, and I took a couple but they're a bugger to peel, so I leave them alone these days.
Yewiefish85
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mantis shrimp/prawn killer,
mantis shrimp/prawn killer, not sure what type tho
fisho-ron
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cool jamieare they common in
cool jamie
are they common in the river? , is that the biggest they get? as i have never seen one before in all the years i have prawned.
till
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Yeah I see a few every dive.
Yeah I see a few every dive. Maybe next time I'll try and feed them something.
mightymouse
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No sorry but thats a king
No sorry but thats a king prawn for sure
Hazell
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Incorrect.. Definitely a
Incorrect.. Definitely a mantis shrimp. They make really interesting specimens in a marine tank but can apparently smash glass swhen they get big.
Ash Hazell
"A cast a day keeps the psychiatrist away"
STEVE231
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They also like to kill your
They also like to kill your marine fish. They normally get introduced to tanks on bought pieces of coral, and hard to locate after that.
A mate of mine introduced an occy to sort the problem, but the bastard thing ended up taking residence in his trickle filter system, now 2 problems... funny shit!!! Better him than me.
After loads of stress, he managed to catch the mantis and we fed it to my jack.
Hazell
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Thats why marine tanks are so
Thats why marine tanks are so good. They are very unpredictable because live rock can contain virtually anything. I worked at Vebas for a while and used to collect all the inverts from the live rock boxes. I ended up with an pretty bad crab problem...
Ash Hazell
"A cast a day keeps the psychiatrist away"
STEVE231
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Veba's actually supplied the
Veba's actually supplied the mangrove jack that ultimately ended the mantis drama. I was a bit hesitant in feeding it to him initially, but all ended well.
MickyDav
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/w
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/MantisShrimpLyd.jpg/299px-MantisShrimpLyd.jpg
Looks just like this and it isnt a king prawn.
Pob
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If you look on youtube for
If you look on youtube for mantis shrimp, there is some great videos of them, including one of a peacock mantis killing and eating a blue ringed octopus, hard ass shrimp!!
alfred
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The big mantis shrimp 11- 12
The big mantis shrimp 11- 12 inches are great deepfried in very very hot oil. Crisp skin and just cooked on the inside. Eaten shell and all. YUM!
milsey
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How did you go Ron? many
How did you go Ron? many around?