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Veneer
10-22-2005, 5:37 PM
Some interesting species of particular interest to the titular "monster fish keeper".
M. carcinus (http://www.crusta10.de/index.php?sideid=galerie&showthumb=243)
M. heterochirus (http://www.crusta10.de/index.php?sideid=galerie&showthumb=242)
M. vollenhovenii (http://www.wirbellose.de/arten.cgi?action=show&artNo=023)
Macrobrachium rosenbergii:
Specimen against ruler (http://www.msstate.edu/dept/crec/prawn.jpg)
"Kentucky King" (http://southcenters.osu.edu/aqua/intro/sld013.htm)
Child holding pair of large specimens (http://www.papuaweb.org/gb/foto/muller/ecology/08/)
Exuvia (molted "skin") against ruler (http://mentuhotep.homestead.com/files/prawnmolt.jpg)
Owner (http://mentuhotep.homestead.com/files/justmolted.jpg)
lets eat, hear there good marinaded
Juveniles are very cheap and if you live where it is warm enough they can be dumped into your pond, they are howevere, cannibals and aggresive hunters of fish.
ice-dragon
11-17-2005, 4:06 AM
over here in Singapore and the rest of Asia we have prawn fishing ponds that are stocked with them. we catch them using a pole with a small hook and line baited with slivers of cockle or meat. ah yes... be careful of the pincers
FormulatedFire
11-17-2005, 9:38 AM
i had a 4-5" river prawn in with my cichlids for a week or two....and then my jd ripped its face off so it died....that thing cost me 8 bucks at the lfs and they didnt even eat the rest of the thing just the head so i had to clean out the rest
Veneer
11-17-2005, 7:40 PM
i had a 4-5" river prawn in with my cichlids for a week or two....and then my jd ripped its face off so it died....that thing cost me 8 bucks at the lfs and they didnt even eat the rest of the thing just the head so i had to clean out the rest
With larger specimens, the tables are often turned. Some 12-inch M. rosenbergii will quite literally attempt to shred anything, irrespective of size, kept with them.
lizardfishman
11-17-2005, 9:52 PM
they sound like crayfish the way everbod. says they rip everythin to pieces
traumatic
11-18-2005, 2:48 PM
seems like they'd be good climbers. keep a tight lid!
thefishofdoom
11-21-2005, 5:11 AM
makes me wanna own one of those fine speicemins :naughty:
Stone Like Fish
11-22-2005, 7:56 PM
yeah, there like these things here in aus, they get huge, there's a pic of one thats 43cm long and its still like 20cm shorter then the single claw found
Veneer
11-23-2005, 7:08 PM
yeah, there like these things here in aus, they get huge, there's a pic of one thats 43cm long and its still like 20cm shorter then the single claw found
Any images of this?
IoStrisciare
11-24-2005, 8:31 PM
seems like they'd be good climbers. keep a tight lid!
yup, they are.... have witnessed individuals climbing out of styrofoam boxes and low walled tanks.
They can survive out of water for sometime. Had a baby one lurk under my sofa for abt an hour before i noticed the claws waving from underneath. :ROFL:
IoStrisciare
11-24-2005, 8:31 PM
lol
The Shrimp's Elbow! :ROFL:
Stone Like Fish
11-24-2005, 8:58 PM
Any images of this?
if i can find the magaizine, i got about 100, and its only in 1 so it might take a while