We had one of these in our salt-water fish-tank growing up. It is exactly as described. We had some rock that we had gotten in the ocean and it came along for the ride. The one we had was MUCH smaller and never bothered the other fish because once my father saw it, he started feeding it on a stick exactly like the lady is showing.

At night, we would hear this loud clacking coming from the tank, it was the mantis shrimp burrowing through the rock to make his home larger...

^ cool story. You should be glad you only had one of the smaller species

Not mentioned in the little film: these things live in a highly-polluted canal in Hawaii where they grow longer than 12 inches.

Let's see how "enriching" she finds it after someone knocks down HER house. Who's with me?

I was expecting some awesome killer strike footage or somethin'. What a tease.

>> ^Maze:
I was expecting some awesome killer strike footage or somethin'. What a tease.

Here you go: Mantis Shrimp bludgeons crab apart

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Yeah, if you want to hear the clacking sound I was referencing in my comment, watch that video. He "clacks" the living shit out of that crab.

whatever. it still looks delicious.

>> ^cybrbeast:
>> ^Maze:
I was expecting some awesome killer strike footage or somethin'. What a tease.

Here you go: Mantis Shrimp bludgeons crab apart


Woo! Cheers.