I thought you were referring to Robert Reich (on the left)...
Posted on 02/21/2003 10:50:43 PM PST by Mensch
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:18:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Mantis Shrimp are growing even larger than normal in the Ala Wai Canal's muck.
Health experts are not sure what is causing Mantis Shrimp found in the muck of the Ala Wai Canal to grow larger than their normal size, but one thing is clear, they say: You shouldn't eat anything out of the canal.
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So maybe these are sea monkey's when they develope?
Hey, Mr college professor, we stopped adding lead to gasoline about 15 years ago.
Then I guess oysters must be right off your menu
Yep, for humanitarian reasons, we need to rain down lotsa lead, depleted uranium, and other heavy metals on that place.
These things are some of the nastiest sea-creatures you'll ever find. They come in two types: Those that can club with their claws, and those that have knives for arms like the one shown above.
The clubbers can easily bash through a 1/4" thick glass aquarium, which makes them the bane of salt-water reef tank owners everywhere. Many owners have bought new reef rocks for their tank that have Mantis Shrimp larvae inside, and then a few months later come home from work to find their tank and fish emptied out all over the carpet along with a shrimp they'd never seen before. They can even punch through acrylic.
The splitters can shred your thumb or toes into hamburger in an instant if you stumble upon one. Mantis Shrimp arms are recorded as the one of the fastest motions in the entire animal world, even surpassing hummingbird wing beats. These are dangerous sea-creatures that are not to be fooled with if caught.
They're considered a delicacy in Japan and Hawaii in the finer sushi places, but they're found the world over.
I once caught one when deep sea fishing off of Huntington Beach CA in the early 90s. I had no idea what it was, but I reeled it up from the bottom when I felt it strike my anchovy. I thought I had a Sculpin by the force in which it hit my line. When I got it to the surface, it had already stripped most of the flesh off of the anchovy on my hook and was about to consume the skeleton.
One of the guys near me saw it and just about had a fit: "Throw it back! It's a Mantis Shrimp! Don't touch it, whatever you do!". I told him there was no way in hell I was going to anyway.
I watched it completely disintegrate my bait, and then he dropped off the hook all by himself seeming to say 'Thanks for the fish, sucker'.
I'd like one for a pet, but they'd kill every other fish in my reef tank in less than a day.
these things are ugly and according to another freeper, kind of dangerous to handle
I had one almost break my toe while clamming in Barnegat Bay, in NJ. I can't really blame it, I stepped into it's burrow. Hurt like H#!! for a couple weeks!
I've been a lobsterman for 40 years.
Lobsters don't squeal unless they're being abused by hermits with Indian screen names.
The clicking they make when out of water is the sound of them breathing or more precisely, "gasping for air".
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