Good pistol shrimp video

[Engloid]

I am in process of moving my stuff from my 125g into the 220g I just got...and I am hearing some clicking coming from both. The guy I bought the 220 from said he did get a mantis shrimp out of the live rock, but didn't know of any more in it. In my tank, I have a pistol shrimp that I suspect is the clicking noise.

I went to youtube to hear examples of the clicking and it's hard to tell for sure, but that's likely what it is. In this video, they don't have the tiger pistol shrimp like the LFS's sell, but I guess they have the same ability to shoot prey and make the clicking, right?

Really neat video though. It's hard to imagine they can produce the heat of the sun and literall shoot prey!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6I8iPiHT8

 

[Runner]

Cool video. I can see the sonic blast, but not this "temp of the sun" stuff. I suppose if you look at the combined gas law, temp and pressure are inversely proportional -- so a sharp vacuum in a contained area would create a high temperature. But the temp of the sun?

 

[macclellan]

The surface of the sun is 5,800 K (5,500 °C). As the cavitation bubble collapses, it reaches temperatures of over 5,000 K (4,700 °C). D. Lohse, B. Schmitz & M. Versluis (2001). "Snapping shrimp make flashing bubbles". Nature 413 (6855): 477–478.

 

[Engloid]

It is hard to imagine, but it seems similar information about them comes from many sources.

 

[TripleT]

Every time my pistol shrimp fires his claw it singes the wallpaper in my den.