Video of one of my crazy crabs releasing young!! yuck

[snapcrackler]

I turned off the main lights before bed and just before I was going to switch off the actinics, guess what i saw.... one of these crabs releasing hundreds of little baby crab swimmers!!! Auuuugh!

It walked up with a sort of "hatch" upen on its underside with the little buggers wriggling and vibrating in the hatch opening thing. Then the crab pointed skyward and started shooting them out.

Sorry for the small video.. I took it with my mavica camera.

Anyway here is my link, I posted it on my soon-to-be-done web site.

http://www.ccincorporated.com/crab releasing young.mpg

 

[kreach]

That's really cool! 8)

 

[sumphead]

ACk I can't see it, but if they are doing it in yours then they are doing it in mine! Noooooo. Aquacultured rock is amazingly beautiful but has it's drawbacks.

R-

 

[snapcrackler]

Ah yes I forgot to mention it is about 1.3 meg so it will take a bit to load if yer using dialup.

I am HOPING that the majority of the lil swimmers got caught in the filter/eaten by my clowns.

Otherwise my pet mantis will be a busy lil feller later this summer.

Snap snap snap!

 

[Menagerie]

Well, there you have it--the miracle of life. Whether you want it, or not

 

[BillyZ]

Otherwise my pet mantis will be a busy lil feller later this summer.

And he'll grow up big and strong! 8O

 

[jamal-188]

That video is crazy, could you imagine if even 10% of them survived 8O

 

[hisc1ay]

Holy crabs! That was cool...I've never seen that before.

-j

 

[prisoner1572]

so, why don't we want crabs having babies?

 

[wahoo_drew]

are you sure he didnt just eat some bad seafood last night

thats pretty cool and your lucky you got it on tape congrads papy

 

[jamal-188]

so, why don't we want crabs having babies?

Because all crabs are evil So hundreds of little baby crabs would be pure evilness in a tank

 

[snapcrackler]

LOL!!

Yeah crabs are always tearing stuff up and knocking stuff over and generally being obnoxious. They were eating mushrooms in my tank for awhile until I caught most of them. :? Great now I will have 20 billion of them rearranging my tank. hehe