Giant Waterbug

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I remember finding one of these; or mabye it was a water scorpian i forget, when i was playing in a pond as a kid. It just fasinated me, i would love to know how to go about getting one of the 8 inch nese from south america that the OP mentioned.
 
On animal planet last night I saw a show called Piranhas. It was mostly about Piranhas but it showed this bug I think. From the Amazon, 8" and it was called Giant water bug. In the show it caught a piranha. They also showed fish like, Pacu, Angel fish, keyhole cichlid, and some others.
 
Pyramid_Party;2390800; said:
On animal planet last night I saw a show called Piranhas. It was mostly about Piranhas but it showed this bug I think. From the Amazon, 8" and it was called Giant water bug. In the show it caught a piranha. They also showed fish like, Pacu, Angel fish, keyhole cichlid, and some others.

This is the exact show I saw it on! hahaha, I am looking to find out how I can go about getting one.

ps the show was terrible.
 
uncwnells;2390835; said:
This is the exact show I saw it on! hahaha, I am looking to find out how I can go about getting one.

ps the show was terrible.


agreed. Plus it was the second time I saw it. Didnt realize how bad it was until the second time seeing it.
 
I tried to keep a smaller (4") north american cousin of these guys in a five gal, I knew that they lived in water but I didn't know they can also FLY! I was on my comp at 2 in the morn and the thing landed on my foot, scared the crap out of me!! I found out later that they have an extremely painful bite too!
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