Reef Addict - The Amazing Peacock Mantis Shrimp 📷
The amazing Mantis shrimp. This is one of the most fantastic reef creatures there is, so colorful, so odd looking and so very interesting to watch! These are all pics of one of these creatures we had in a home acquarium. I think you can tell from this creature, why its so easy to become a REEF ADDICT!
Note: Click images to view larger versions.
Besides the fact that they look bizzare and awesome, there are some pretty cool statistics about mantis shrimp you might find interesting:
- They aren't actually shrimp, or mantises for that matter. They are stomatopods
- Stomatopods are older than dinosours!
- They have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, seeing amazingly more than humans with 7 color receptors in each eye, and vision beyond anything we can imagine actually. They can see polarized light and actually use it to signal and communicate with one another, which no other animal can see.
- They pack a major bunch. Mantis shrimp have powerful calcium hardened hammer weapon that they deploy on a pendulum like arm that can deliver a punch hard enough to crack bones and shell's of their enemies, fast enough to boil water as it deploys (50mph) and strong enough to crack aquarium glass walls.
- They make loud sounds or grunts and moans which can easily be heard (and sometimes it can be scary load) even in an aquarium using the sounds to communicate and ward off predators.
Beyond these scary and cool stats, they are an amazing reef pet to keep, although you have to keep them isolated and in an acrylic or thick glass walled tank since they will break or kill anything else in with them. They are super fun to watch as they explore their tank and surroundings and snap and grunt out various sounds.
They pretty much move everything they can around in your tank to build a stronger home or cave, making it deeper undergroup and easier to defend and surprise their victims that might cross past the opening. (No fingers allowed nearby!!)
We kept this guy in an isolated tank for a couple years and unfortunately it died, but it well fed, happy an absolutely joy to keep in a aquarium for the time we could. What an amazing creature! The the last few best pics I have of him.
Just look at those colors and the eyeballs! Wow!
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Aliens. Aliens everywhere.
haha, good one.!
seriously alien looking. lol
The creatures of the sea are absolutely mesmerizing. Thank you for introducing us to this beauty.
no problem @crazymumzysa, it was my pleasure and thanks for the resteem!
amazing colours. nice photos.
thanks solarguy, you list algae hobbiest, do you have aquariums for that algae? or is that something else?
Oh thanks for noticing. I am in the process setting up small commercial indoor Photo Bioreactor to grow Spirulina year round. I have written a bunch articles on different types of Alga and their uses. I'm a strong believer that algae will be an integral part of earth sustainable future. From carbon capture, to electricity, cleaning the ocean and especially food to name a few of of their uses.
You might find these post interesting.
https://steemit.com/science/@solarguy/growing-organic-spirulina-at-home
I went to the worlds top Algae Innovation and Commercialization Science conference last fall in China you can see about it here.
https://steemit.com/science/@solarguy/bio-fuels-for-carbon-capture-using-algae
wow, that is some interesting stuff. certainly didn't know much about it, but I do love to grow a lot of indoor plants, never knew about algae's though. Funny, we always fed spiralina tablets to the catfish and bottom feeders in our reef tanks. Now I know why!!! Good stuff
Thank you for posting @unipsycho.
Lovely photographs and commentary. Always appreciate your aquarium posts.
All the best to you and yours. Cheers.
right on bleujay and good to hear that, thanks a bunch!
Very beautiful pictures of a fascinating critter! Thank you for sharing!
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PS Thanks for the high resolution shots!
thanks creatr, nice to have you exploring my photos. Cool image reply!
I edited my reply - I really appreciate it when you and other allow access to the full resolution images. I love "zooming in" and looking at the details! Thanks again!
thanks creatr, I love that as well from other artists, so I almost almost do that with my photos sets. I wish there was an option in the steemit image upload to allow that more easily. I write my posts in my tool, steemwriter, and added that feature, but you still have to host images elsewhere.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Steemit preserves the full sized image... and so you can host your photos on Steemit, you just have to edit in some HTML to link to the image by itself... ;) Works for me...
yup you are right, I really meant just the editor part to allow the images to link without having to manually do the linking. That's why I use steemwriter, I built a button to do that for you, so in image posting it saves lots of time.
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