Holding a Huge Mantis (video )

RuGlu6 · #1 03-23-2009, 06:58 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9z5...eature=related

Funky_Fish14 · #2 03-23-2009, 07:58 AM

Wow... thats unreal. Lol.

I'd hate to see that guy get nailed by that thing... would probably do alot of damage.

It looked a bit on the thin side, the mantis... anybody feel the same way?

bigblack · #3 03-23-2009, 09:33 AM

its all fun and games till somebody loses a thumb!! lol

Leah · #4 03-23-2009, 11:45 AM

Yeah, it does look thin. Gave me shivers just watching it!

Dolf · #5 03-23-2009, 11:51 AM

I saw that a month or so back. I had done a search on a lionfish on youtube and that come up as a link. I was thinking that he is putting a lot of trust in a shrimp with a brain the size of a grain of rice- an animal that will act on instinct as much as anything else. Oh, what a well trained shrimp he has...

levi1803 · #6 03-23-2009, 12:51 PM

I don't think I would be doing that, he's got more guts than I do.

Chowder · #7 03-23-2009, 03:48 PM

Thats just crazy. What would even make someone think of that?

Chris

justinl · #8 03-23-2009, 04:11 PM

that's not brave, that's just plain stupid. This is one of the species that can split your finger down to the bone. Mantis shrimp also tend to get a lot of nasty bacteria growing on their carapaces; which is why they molt... so they don't infect themselves. And being terrestrial in nature, we don't have much defense against marine viruses and bacteria.

Leah · #9 03-23-2009, 04:13 PM

I will remember that everytime I siphon out my tank, yum!

RuGlu6 · #10 03-23-2009, 09:36 PM

The only way to play with mantis like that is only after they molt and skeleton is soft.
Mantis will not strike for a few days after molting.
may be that's the case ?

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