Eight Angry Inches

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dbrooks1440

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I have eight angry inches of Odontodactylus scyllarus in a 100g species tank in the garage.

For company, I tossed in a quarter-sized domino damsel. The two live in physical contact with each other - literally.

I was given a full sized domino on Monday to add to the mix. The two domino's, surprisingly, got along great...and Sushi kept her head down.

On Wednesday night, I think that Big Dom poked his nose in Sushi's burrow looking for a place to bed down.

BAM!!

Sushi: 1
Big Dom: 0...and dead.

How does a trigger fish sound...
 
I thought trigger fish killed shrimp, you may be taking a gamble on who lives depending on the size/type of trigger you get.... but I could be wrong about the whole thing :S
 
haha never EVER underestimate the power of a mantis shrimp, full grown peacocks will kill triggers...for fun i remember dr. roy said that he saw either a pet store of a wholesaler put a peacock in a tank with a few juvi clown triggers...next day the triggers were dead and the peacock was perfectly fine
 
I think it mighta been 2 peacocks and 6 triggers......Also, you are pretty lucky. 8 inches is the largest any peacock has been recorded I think.

Dan
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10474478#post10474478 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pea-brain
Also, you are pretty lucky. 8 inches is the largest any peacock has been recorded I think.
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Hmmm...well, it might be 7 inches then. I can't actually measure her...but I don't want to be grabbing the record...
 
Crazyness, triggers are pretty hardcore. What has the ability to kill mantis shrimps then? I heard octopus could but I have never seen videos of anything killing them...
 
The video is here: reefcentral.com/vid/bluering/bluering_content.html

I believe that Dr. Roy once said that if a mantis catches an octo in the open bet on the mantis, if the mantis is caught in its burrow bet on the octo. Of course between similarly sized animals. Between similarly sized animals the mantis usually stands a good chance against most things I would immagine....

Dan
 
Large fish with strong jaws can handle stomatopods, but generally they have to be able to crush it in their jaws. Your standard gonodactylid like G. smithii or N. wennerae are taken by triggers, puffers, grouper, etc. When you get to the size of a six inch O. scyllarus, the fish have to be even larger. Sharks, large triggers such as greys, grouper handle them as do large octopus like O. cyanea.

Some of the heaviest predation I have ever seen occurred during an extreme low tide in Panama when a flock of egrets and herons arrived. We did focal animal observations on egrets and they were averaging 3-4 adult N. oerstedii and N. bredini per minute. The carnage lasted nearly an hour. During our collecting over the next couple of months many of the stomatopods had wounds that clearly were beak marks.

The story I posted about the clown triggers being killed by adult O. scyllarus involved 4-6 inch triggers - so the stomatopods and triggers were roughly the same size.

I once watched a what I think was a Balistapus undulatus (orange-striped trigger) corner a similar sized O. scyllarus under a coral head. The trigger kept attacking and the stomatopod kept striking it in the beak. After several attacks pieces of the trigger's beak were broken away. I finally gave up, but I was really impressed by its tenacity.

Roy
 
all i know is that that blue ring in the posted video just got OWNED, haha man that poor bluering really never stood a chance, i am going to show that video to everyone i know...

haha Dr. roy i told my bosses wife about the guy over i think in india that stepped on the mantis shrimp (i believe O. Scyllarus) and needed reconstructive surgery on his foot and now she calls them man eating shrimp
 
Re: Eight Angry Inches

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10473801#post10473801 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dbrooks1440
For company, I tossed in a quarter-sized domino damsel. The two live in physical contact with each other - literally.
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Well, that didn't last long...little Dom has disappeared as well...
 
Around here, the striped bass eat a lot of Squilla Empusa. You find their parts in their stomachs. Big ones too.

I found a great Wanerae in a store near my new apt. I'm just cycling my tank now. It's my first propper salt water aquarium. I got an aquapod 24. Would it be unwise of me to put this 4 inch green smasher in that glass tank?
 
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