Mantis shrimp eats sand eel

[drHoodz]

basically... this would be chuck norris if he was a... crustacean?

[xTehxScreamox]

@drHoodz Correct lol

[54YourSelf]

yur mantis shrimp is rilly small

[Kerberoz01]

you can tell how badly our schools are failing when people constantly confuse crustaceans for insects

[HaloReachS117]

It sucks,No one will dare put a snowflake eel or anything to fight their Mantis..Because it would get owned...

[Flamestrke]

I like the way you beautifully imitated a sand eels elegant movements

[TheBlessedOne29]

thats no mantis shrimp... thats an anchovy on a toothpick!

[FretFreak13]

nice vid. He's a cillata, right?

[Sublime1bs]

Reminds me of my Frog Fishing video with Not-so-live bait. check it! haha!

Its all entertainment~

[darcflame37]

this is pitiful...only attention whores post videos like this one

[GuruVote]

That's kind of ironic...You're just feeding the attention whore by looking at this video.

Smart...

[darcflame37]

@GuruVote Nahh, you can be the smart one... You're just assuming I'm psychic.

[QuietCannon]

..It's a mantis eating crap. It's not some chick flashing her boobs on camera.

[darcflame37]

@QuietCannon and that's what yu call interesting?

[QuietCannon]

@darcflame37 Not exactly, but it's not attention whoring either.

[GuruVote]

I am the smart one. Wow! You really are psychic!

[Itsyoungdoz]

1:32 actually looks like a praying mantis

[sirtubemaster]

@Itsyoungdoz where do you think it got its name from??? lol

[evanesp23]

yeah what a dumb ass idiot, mantis shrimp want to eat live prey. i can just see him looking at you from the tank wondering what kind of an idiot you are. then he decided to eat it only to humor you.

fail

[MrDemon12344]

why didnt you keep the eel alive bumb#**

[numbuh124]

hey I remeber eating these few days ago

[pyrotek13579]

ummmm it might have ate it faster if you did not have a shishkabob stick that is the width if the eel poking around, and have the eel swimming actually

[zer0nix]

god, look at that thing. it's weird but i find that arthropod cute as hell.

if these colorful bastards weren't called thumb splitters, i'd be highly tempted to stroke them. as it is, i am highly tempted to buy one for a pet :p

[GeorgieZillaFan]

did you kill the eel?

[Sturrmm]

no he just skewered it on a stick...

[carlcallycharly]

until an underwater McDonalds is available from the pet store live food will have to do LOL

[briishspy]

glad to see someone on here not feeding their mantis shrimp live food those sick fucks, and i don't want to hear anyone say its just nature, no in nature the prey has a chance to escape in an aquarium it doesn't, like throwing a dog in a pit full of sharks

[magicster123]

yes... he just spears his live food dude nature can be altered by events. like feeding a pet

[lardodoodle]

Well if they keep eating prepared foods the might get lazy and if they don't use there predatorial apendages they've been known to grow weak and even fall off. This is a true fact for smashers but I'm not sure about the spearers.

[tissuekins]

make shit cooler dude. Just because you said that, when I get my mantis shrimp, I'm buying it live prey. Goldfish, shrimp, whatever.

[rocafella142]

Mantis Shrimp are suppose to pick on live food...especialy Smashers...if they dont use their limbs then they will grow weak and fall off

[I2eapz]

thats not so much true yes if there lazy as but if you own a mantis witch is a smasher you will know the endless Clicks of them hitting the rocks to make there homes bigger mines only 7cm by like 2cm and hes smashed caves in the rock all over the place

[GiantArapaima74]

mantis shrimps can move their forelimbs at the same speed as a 2 cal. bullet. Just becuase the octopus is bigger doesn't mean it will win. Also the Shrimp showed the octopus off, so that shows how they are matched without a fight. but i still think they should fight, that'd be awesome.

[ItsJeffreyShow]

what would happen if you stuck your finger in there

[jarmo0w]

this shrimp probably sits on its lazy ass for 2 minutes, then he would slowly climb up the finger i quess..

I wanna see action!

[kapowrah]

clearly you don't know. these tings can punch at the speed and power of a heavy weight boxer!!

[pzerberr493]

Awesome mantis

[poisenmushrooms4u]

dude your fuckin sick

[dustylee]

i wonder what makes the entire shrimp to be neon green, thats pretty bright

[scootfd3s]

actually mantis shrimp do come like that. its a relativaly cheap one. i picked up a 1" for 8bux.

Common Names: False Mantis, Rainbow Mantis

Scientific name: Pseudosquilla ciliata

Weapon: Spearer

Max Size: ~4

Oh and by the way: Relies greatly on predation of small fish, especially in aquariums. They are known for their ability to change colors to suit surroundings after only a few molts. Adults should be kept in tanks of at least 20 gallon

[shellylanette]

@scootfd3s I always read they grow to be 12 inches.....are there different varieties of them?

[scootfd3s]

@shellylanette yep

[1closedown1]

wow, not cool its not even a cool looking one. Your a failure

[Swieft]

I love how they frolic over to an opponent. "Oh what a relief, its retarded....WTFZ0R!!!

[echtwinkletits]

lol

1:12

MINE!!

[CunningStunt123]

I got my 4" peacock mantis for free!!! It came out of the main display reef at my Local fish shop. They found it in the overflow box. The guy said they had been chasing it for years, and it just got a little too inquisitive one day and went over the weir, they got rid of a "pest" and I got an awesome new mantis!! He's in his own little 20Gal tank with a couple small feeder fish. I couldn't be happier with the price either!

[shellylanette]

@CunningStunt123 get ready to buy a bigger tank!

[LordArion201]

it's disturbing how fast a mantis shrimp 'punches'...

[Robbyjean]

That is fantastic!!!

[SeansStoopidFilms]

pretty dang awesome my friend

[austinpetemo]

wtf.................

[pappegye]

i think you should put out a video where you'r mantis is hunting, and it would be nice with a little bit better quality =)

Nice mantis shrimp you got there though =D

[Tigerpuffer]

didn't know that chartruse was a designer color for Mantis lol. What species is it? BTW The pole may have scared him. You can thread a piece of fishing line without a hook through the Sandeel's mouth and out the gill.

[itwhonow]

How much did it cost you?

[Vidszhite]

I wanted to see some killin', but you'd already skewered it! 2/5.

[boihaggos1]

mantis shrimps are more colourful than that arent they??

[trenthh2]

awesome

[Kribensis007]

cool mantis shrimp. It's so cool

[Hdub187]

u should cut it down a bit until about a second or two before it eats it.

[icebarrage1166]

all u that are calling him a fag are just gay ass hater with loosers for parents...

[drweird656]

Fag

[jamie10310]

why does every2 say fag?

[drweird656]

cus this persons a FAG

[jamie10310]

ooookiee! my turn! FAG!!! : ]

[hoovooloo9]

Ban.

[Cormundo]

Crab

[missjo797]

Ugh. I hate shrimp. I can barely even eat popcorn shrimp. This vid reminds me why I hate shrimp so much.

[gwalla]

If it helps, mantis shrimp aren't technically shrimp at all.

[zzzxtreme]

mantis are fucking bastards

[SuKJoHnBoFf]

@gwalla it dosent



[Cubone96]

@gwalla they r mantises/insects

[lukemantis]

@Cubone96 Actually, they're neither. Stomatopods split from other Crustaciens millions of years ago.

[Cubone96]

@lukemantis lol, just a wild guess. XD

[Skeeeder]

@Cubone96 tard..... ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Y U NO WAT MANTIS SHRIMP IS?

[Cubone96]

@Skeeeder TARD, LEARN ENGLISH.

[Skeeeder]

@Cubone96 Lol? What are you? Retarded?? rooffflllll

[Skeeeder]

@Cubone96 Lol? What are you retarded?? Dumb ass. You're the type of person that makes America look fat and stupid. Get a life you piece of shit.

[Cubone96]

@Skeeeder I´m not american. You´re the one who is a retard here. Go get a life yourself. "Why you know what mantis shrimp is"? What the is that suppose to mean? Cunt.

[ClankerX]

my favorite shrimp

[slay289]

Chaos i think all of the mantis shrimp are like that

[chaosclone67]

Wow You must have really hurt that thing. Its so afraid . It would have been like "Mmmm. Munch on on Eel and Wood! Yumm! The wood tastes... Well it has no taste but its tasty."

[TyeNee]

Fag.

[bobbydesi]

Fag.

[zllive]

fag.

[7777cameron7777]

fag

[BARRYZIT0]

hmmmm...looks like a good lobster

[Stickman550]

LOL

[weene858]

you guys are silly... the arowana is just all looks and part attack.. mantis is all on attack with the technique it has but i would love to have either or

[j07ann]

boring! i thought it was like a kind of predator vs prey kinda thang.. "dead eels don't fight back"

[xbeckieboox]

thats a scary shrimp, id take it to work and chuck it at shoplifters.

[ikserg3]

lol, that is not a "sand eel" it's called a silverside, i feed those to my saltwater fishes too.

[Anomalocaris5634]

My Arrowjauna or whatever the spelling eats fishes like a foot long. CUZ MY ARROW WHATEVER IT'S CALLED IS 6 FOOT LONG!! HAHAHAH! and his name is Shadow but the tanks soo huge like over 10 meters long!

[sickoftakennames]

It's called an "Arowana". I wish I had a fish that big, but this mantis shrimp doesn't look too bad.

[Anomalocaris5634]

srry bout the spelling and I was over exagerating. I don't have a tank 10 meters only about 2 or 3 meters to fit my fish in

[sickoftakennames]

Don't worry about the spelling. Now you know how to spell it. Usually when I correct people they take it like little bitches and get defensive instead of learning from it.

[Anomalocaris5634]

lol well I'm considered a little Devil cuz I'm always grounded one way or another. I love my Arowana fish and sometimes I call him Fish Sticks!

[hyenalaugh09]

i have never even heard of one of those but that is cooool, A mantis shrimp

[fishboy9394958]

those mantis can break bone man! Fisherman call them thumbsplitters

[icebloomafoo]

That video kinda sucked. >_> I was expecting a fierce attack but it grabbed on the stick and gently pulled off the eel. :/

[GTRsleeper]

These guys are crazy,there strike force is equal to a 22 calibur bullit (the larger species like pecocks).Which is amazing for an animal that size.

[haganyang]

so if u threw it at people and it attacked they can possibly die? please answer this someone i love these things but i cant afford one

[AngaloPapeteri]

Probably not, unless you shoved it down that person's throat, or she was extremely unlucky.

[DietPlain]

thats a beautiful Pseudosquilla you have there.

[wolfsrainlvr]

i bet 40 redbellied pirahnas cld beat a mantis shrimp

[Mildewpants]

In saltwater? No. In freshwater? Yes, but I'm sure some of them would regret it lol.

[kenny6789]

cool!

[pjsimpso]

wurst video evar.

[armand111]

what can take on a mantis shirmp that ol bully

[xXOblivionKnightXx]

hahaha, i used to have one of these : )

[SpacemanSpiff420]

They come in many colors, and they can't bite your hand, but they can hit it with their arms, which will hurt a lot.

They're also very interesting to keep as a pet, they're really smart.

Google Mantis Shrimp, and go into the lurkers guide of Stomatopods ( Mantis Shrimp), it will tell you everything you want to know.

[ace93]

r thse rare?

[SpacemanSpiff420]

No, Mantis Shrimp are actually quite easy to acquire if you know where to look for them.

Lots of pet stores won't keep them because they kill almost anything that you put in with them, and larger species can break aquarium glass.

If you want lots of info on these guys, just message me.

[ace93]

lol uhh i wanna no are they always green and do they bite ur hand?