mean pistol shrimp

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  1. white-rasta

    white-rasta Bristle Worm

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    i watched a hermit crab fill in one of the holes my pistol shrimp lives in. when the shrimp came to the entrance of the hole to repair it thats when the hermit crab jumped onto the pistol shrimp! the pistol shrimp pulled the hermit crab into his hole and 30 seconds later the crab came runnin out
     
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  3. stepho

    stepho Panda Puffer

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    sounds like a mean hermit crab to me.
     
  4. salsalito25

    salsalito25 Stylophora

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    haha sounds like saltwater UFC...!!!
     
  5. =Jwin=

    =Jwin= Tassled File Fish

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    My pistol shrimp kidnaps snails and you see them crawl out like "WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED" after a while. Haha it's really funny to watch. Sometimes, if the pistol shrimp is in a good mood, he brings the snails back out and drops them outside. Other times he just lets them crawl their own bloody way back out. :D
     
  6. chris adams

    chris adams Purple Tang

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    Target fed the pistol shrimp today and Nassarius snail went into his home and came rolling out being pushed by the pistol.
     
  7. sterling

    sterling Peppermint Shrimp

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    yea my first pistol shrimp was a bugger. My diamond goby went in the hole to see what was happenin', say whats up, and the fellar never came back out.