I'm having a really hard time trying to find the difference between it this and a giant water bug. Is it just that these can be thinner and their claws are longer and the coloration? Or am I missing something?
@MsRetardados I actually just found this one outside in a river.. :P you can easily find them in pond along the waters edge hidden in plants and reeds. Just take a small net and shift throught the aquatic veggetation along the shoreline :)!
this is a water scorpion? i have 3 emperior scorps and 1 desert hairy scorp, but a water scorp? what is the scientific name of this bug and by the way yours is beautiful mate
Yet he seems okay living with a bunch of little fish... Interesting. How often does he need a feeding of this size? These things can be found in all sorts of still water sources almost everywhere in the world from swimming pools to puddles. I've encountered them many times in the wild.
Well basicly this setup gave the insect a natural way of life seeing as aside from this video it had to catch food on it's own. I didn't help him. I only fed him with tongs to show everyone how it eats. I would think it was probably eating/trying to eat one of those guppies weekly. Hope this helps! :) And yes, they are pretty easy to find aren't they ?!
Yes, very interesting info, thanks. I remember once I had a stack of old tires behind the barn that had filled with rainwater inside the carcasses. Well I was relocating them one day and nearly fell over when one of these guys popped up out of the water/ leaves in one of the tires. Don't know what it was eating (maybe other bugs) but I'll tell you what, I never forgot the encounter!
I honistly don't know much other then that they are "true Bugs" so like most bug insects they probable have subtle differences between male and female individuals other then body and length sizes. Hope this helps :)
Sorry, I agree that having your internal fluids and dissoved organs drained out of you through your tail is an awful way to go, but the insect has to eat.... :S
Well it's not hard to say buit there are quite a few different species found world-wide. Odds are more or less that if you live in North america, Europe, Asia or Australia you'll find some kind of species in the genus.
I actually don't because the soil is bio-activated and the snails in the enclosure keep the algae levels down to a minimum aslong as the tank isn't right in the sun ofcourse.
thats a "water mantis"; a "water scorpion" (nepa cinerea) has another shape, the abdomen is flat and the legs are thicker. i know cuz i have an aquarium in wich i have both species.
I think you may be right but I do know what your talking about and in Canada we call those "Giant water bugs". ofcourse there are a few different species and the more exotic ones that you own have the tubes at the end of their abdomens right?
yes, both the water scorpion and the water mantis(Ranata) have breathing tubes at the end of the abdomen. the tube is actually made of 2 separate parts called "cerci" lots of insects have "cerci" even the common roach, but the water bugs are the only ones that use them to breathe.
Oh! I see thanks very much well I learn't something there! I will consider changing the title of the video to water mantis! Very coool lol clearly compaired to a roach the water scorpions and mantids have become much more elongated throughout evolution.... :p
dude... put it on youtube! or show me some pics please. i really want water scorpions in my aquarium. i used to have a giant water bug for several months, until i released it coz i had no use for the 10 gallon besides throwing in tadpoles to feed it and hurt the local frog population and out of fear to move it into my 55, so i released it. aquatic insects are so cool. awesome video btw.
dude since the time i last commented here i had one of these in my 55 gallon. he'd always position himself atop my plants at the surface of the water, i fed him a guppy and a snail i killed, but it died somehow... i think my leaf fish might have beaten him and didn't bother eating it.
I would assume that water scorpions feed when ever a prey item comes into their arms reach. I think they usually eat once a day. I forgot to ask does your water scorpion look the same as mine or is it more similar to a giant waterbug with the tube on the end of its abdomen? I'm asking this because there are many different species of these insects and I want to make clear recomendations without assuming the size of your insect. Hope this helps!
Hmmm... What are you offering it? Fish? You can aso try small aquatic insects like daphnia which you could collect from a pond. It depends how big your water scorpion is. Remember it can eat on its own too. Sometimes they also take awhile to settle in. hope this helps!
Thanks, ya their pretty easy to find in ponds and slow moving strems and river. They'll almost always be found in submerged plants and branches close to the waters surface so that they can breath through there abdominal tube thingy....lol
in Poland we call them 'topielica' (which means 'drowned woman', yea, how sweet ;D); in our legends 'topielica' is also young girl-like demon, who dwells in water :)
i have a water scorpion, i found it in my pool on the coast of nsw.
keiraholsteggerox 2 months ago
FATALITY!!!!
MrSkater830 2 months ago
SCORPION WINS FLAWLESS VICTORY FATALITY!!!!!!
MrSkater830 2 months ago
were can i get
joushpop 3 months ago
awful music
jimmyshitbags 3 months ago
@jimmyshitbags Someone somewhere thinks the same about what you listen to.
Uberboy07 2 months ago
lol when the scorpian attacks the first one all the fishes were like "we gotta help him"
ChinkyWincky 3 months ago
I'm having a really hard time trying to find the difference between it this and a giant water bug. Is it just that these can be thinner and their claws are longer and the coloration? Or am I missing something?
fantabulousK 3 months ago
They act sort of like mantids. Find it quite interesting. I have one.
MINARD734 11 months ago
omggggggg kill this noob scorpion now!!!!!!!!!!
metti45 1 year ago
how often do you feed it? and do you need filtration in it's tank? how often do you clean the tank?
aventurinne 1 year ago
Snail eats the scorpion and fish at the end, no one so that coming... Censored! Lol :)
Divinoamor 1 year ago
looks like a praying mantis o.o
MythicalFlame 1 year ago
What is that song in background?
BizarreWorks 1 year ago
xD
In my cousin's pool they're tons of these bugs EVERYWHERE!
(Well I saw atleast 12 of them...not saw but caught)
They're a dark black...say can they hurt people..?
TundraKay 1 year ago
wut size is the guppy?
XyZxYz1293 1 year ago
How can i get one
MsRetardados 1 year ago
@MsRetardados I actually just found this one outside in a river.. :P you can easily find them in pond along the waters edge hidden in plants and reeds. Just take a small net and shift throught the aquatic veggetation along the shoreline :)!
Reptiliatus 1 year ago
@ Reptiliatus hum ... ok obrigado pela informação
MsRetardados 1 year ago
@MsRetardados Seu bem-vindos :)
Reptiliatus 1 year ago
@Reptiliatus Sé bem vindo
Sabes portugues ? Do you know portuguese
MsRetardados 1 year ago
@Reptiliatus Ho yes sorry i say in portuguese ok obrigado pela informação sorry i forgot Thanks for the information
MsRetardados 1 year ago
MsRetarded
cococmutt 1 month ago
@cococmutt ?
MsRetardados 1 week ago
@Reptiliatus You have a river invert? Do you have a current to create a current?
gibblesthechicken 1 year ago
@MsRetardados
also, carolina biological supplies sells them
SuperHerpKeeper 1 year ago
this is a water scorpion? i have 3 emperior scorps and 1 desert hairy scorp, but a water scorp? what is the scientific name of this bug and by the way yours is beautiful mate
ServerWar2Ru 1 year ago
@ServerWar2Ru Hi there, This is actually just a common name. It's an insect not an arachnid :). I believe it's a "Ranatra fusca".
Reptiliatus 1 year ago
Yet he seems okay living with a bunch of little fish... Interesting. How often does he need a feeding of this size? These things can be found in all sorts of still water sources almost everywhere in the world from swimming pools to puddles. I've encountered them many times in the wild.
SlimTwisted 2 years ago
Well basicly this setup gave the insect a natural way of life seeing as aside from this video it had to catch food on it's own. I didn't help him. I only fed him with tongs to show everyone how it eats. I would think it was probably eating/trying to eat one of those guppies weekly. Hope this helps! :) And yes, they are pretty easy to find aren't they ?!
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Yes, very interesting info, thanks. I remember once I had a stack of old tires behind the barn that had filled with rainwater inside the carcasses. Well I was relocating them one day and nearly fell over when one of these guys popped up out of the water/ leaves in one of the tires. Don't know what it was eating (maybe other bugs) but I'll tell you what, I never forgot the encounter!
SlimTwisted 1 year ago
holy crap didn't even know those existed!
madvampireslayer 2 years ago
Haha, well now you do! :)
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
how do u know if its a male or a female?
Boraxrulez 2 years ago
I'm sorry,
I honistly don't know much other then that they are "true Bugs" so like most bug insects they probable have subtle differences between male and female individuals other then body and length sizes. Hope this helps :)
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Yes, well they don't really sting... They can inflict a painful bite with their needle like mouth.
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Well put simply!
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
the poor little guppy...... ;)
Boraxrulez 2 years ago
Sorry, I agree that having your internal fluids and dissoved organs drained out of you through your tail is an awful way to go, but the insect has to eat.... :S
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
yes and it hurts, trust me :(
Boraxrulez 2 years ago
oh yes! They don't call their cousins (Giant water bug) "Toe bitters" for nothing! :p
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
where are water scropions loactated
hottyboy315 2 years ago
Well it's not hard to say buit there are quite a few different species found world-wide. Odds are more or less that if you live in North america, Europe, Asia or Australia you'll find some kind of species in the genus.
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
my one survived 10 months on tadpoles
my was the other type of one
centi091 2 years ago
Ya their soooo cool eh?!
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Ok, I had waterdragons too and i kept them outside whit snails but the water went green after 4-6 days after cleaning :D
Hygex 2 years ago
This was because of the bright light inducing algae growth....
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
do you clean your waterbug aquarium, and if you do then how?
Hygex 2 years ago
I actually don't because the soil is bio-activated and the snails in the enclosure keep the algae levels down to a minimum aslong as the tank isn't right in the sun ofcourse.
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
thats a "water mantis"; a "water scorpion" (nepa cinerea) has another shape, the abdomen is flat and the legs are thicker. i know cuz i have an aquarium in wich i have both species.
davidc712dvd 2 years ago
I think you may be right but I do know what your talking about and in Canada we call those "Giant water bugs". ofcourse there are a few different species and the more exotic ones that you own have the tubes at the end of their abdomens right?
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
yes, both the water scorpion and the water mantis(Ranata) have breathing tubes at the end of the abdomen. the tube is actually made of 2 separate parts called "cerci" lots of insects have "cerci" even the common roach, but the water bugs are the only ones that use them to breathe.
davidc712dvd 2 years ago
Oh! I see thanks very much well I learn't something there! I will consider changing the title of the video to water mantis! Very coool lol clearly compaired to a roach the water scorpions and mantids have become much more elongated throughout evolution.... :p
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
dude... put it on youtube! or show me some pics please. i really want water scorpions in my aquarium. i used to have a giant water bug for several months, until i released it coz i had no use for the 10 gallon besides throwing in tadpoles to feed it and hurt the local frog population and out of fear to move it into my 55, so i released it. aquatic insects are so cool. awesome video btw.
welcomegohome 2 years ago
Sorry bud, I don't have this guys anymore... If I find anymore I'll take one and do a video for ya ;)...
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
LAME... two more things; these do NOT have wings, right? also, what is this song?
welcomegohome 2 years ago
Yes they do and they most likely are capable of flying to new locations (bodies of water). and the song is Major Tom by shiny toy guns
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
dude since the time i last commented here i had one of these in my 55 gallon. he'd always position himself atop my plants at the surface of the water, i fed him a guppy and a snail i killed, but it died somehow... i think my leaf fish might have beaten him and didn't bother eating it.
welcomegohome 2 years ago
Sweet were the hell did u get tht thing
MClardizzle11 2 years ago
Ahh
AHUtch81 2 years ago
Really cool!,could you do an update on your aquatic insects and that tadpole you had?
AHUtch81 2 years ago
Thanks! I'd love too but I unfortunately released all of those animals back where I found them... Sorry
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
yeah it looks just like yours
jotesswannabes 2 years ago
ok ya thanks mines about the size of your and we have some fish in its cage now but we will look for some aquatic insects. how often do they eat?
jotesswannabes 2 years ago
I would assume that water scorpions feed when ever a prey item comes into their arms reach. I think they usually eat once a day. I forgot to ask does your water scorpion look the same as mine or is it more similar to a giant waterbug with the tube on the end of its abdomen? I'm asking this because there are many different species of these insects and I want to make clear recomendations without assuming the size of your insect. Hope this helps!
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
hey i have a question y water scorpion wont eat do you know why? please get back to me
jotesswannabes 2 years ago
Hmmm... What are you offering it? Fish? You can aso try small aquatic insects like daphnia which you could collect from a pond. It depends how big your water scorpion is. Remember it can eat on its own too. Sometimes they also take awhile to settle in. hope this helps!
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Wow, I have never even heard of them. Awesome animal! really cool vid.
BallPythonLuver 2 years ago
Thanks, ya their pretty easy to find in ponds and slow moving strems and river. They'll almost always be found in submerged plants and branches close to the waters surface so that they can breath through there abdominal tube thingy....lol
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Nice :)
in Poland we call them 'topielica' (which means 'drowned woman', yea, how sweet ;D); in our legends 'topielica' is also young girl-like demon, who dwells in water :)
Frigor13 2 years ago
I;m sorry I never answered your comment before but that is really neat and wow "Topielica" sure suits these insects for a name!
Reptiliatus 2 years ago
Wow nice very interesting!
BERGYx2 2 years ago
Thanks! Yes I find them to be pretty neat aswell.... :)
Reptiliatus 2 years ago