What are these?
Submitted by Oracle on Mon, 2015-10-19 10:00
We dragged our pots up today and found some of these in it. Looked like a group of baby crays, but had a single claw each. When we had a closer look out of water, it was cracking it's claw quite loudly. Sorry for the bad photo. Sloppy water out there today.
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crasny1
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Doesnt look like a Mantus
Prawn, but know they do snap. There is also a Mottled snapping prawn but these do look different.
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D_d_001
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no idea but more importantly...............................
any keepers ?
Oracle
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The big nought
Got a few on our first lift but none this morning.
D_d_001
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Ahhh no good...going to
Ahhh
no good...going to check mine tomorrow morning for first pull of season.
Tarpon
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Pistol shrimp?
Pistol shrimp?
meglodon
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Yep I'ld go with pistol shrimp
By snapping the claw it produces a very sharp high pitched sound that stuns fish that are real close to it this allows the shrimp to catch its food.
Oracle
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Chicken dinner
Sounds like a winner. This would be it.
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grantarctic1
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Amazing little creatures