Amohipods with Spearer appendages like Mantis shrimp

[MadTownMax]

Was just looking at my pods and noticed some had some quite large claws similar to a speared mantis.

I know I don't have a bunch of baby mantis in my tank - wondering if this is a common phenomenon or a result of an inbred pod population.

 

[MadTownMax]

 

[teddscau]

Can't see the photo, but my amphipods are a blue-ish tint with mantis like appendages they use for grabbing food and clearing substrate from their burrows.

 

[MadTownMax]

Thanks for the reply / never really got my photos moved to a good site after RC closed their gallery.

Glad to know others see this too and these things are not mutating to take over my tank.

 

[MadTownMax]

Wait- your amphipod a have burrows!?!??!

 

[teddscau]

Yeah, they make little burrows. Nothing too fancy ;p