Owch!

[SharkHunta]

Didja ever hear about the wonderous bullet shrimp?
Here's an amazing fact, when threatened, the bullet shrimp opens its claws, cocking it, aims and releases, the following os somewhat like a sonic boom, when snapped it is snapped so fast that it created an air bubble, at some point the air bubble reaches the temperature of the surface of the sun.. underwater, anyways, when hit by the bubble the prey, nomatter how string is injured, even if it is only a small injury, the jolt that occurs when hit also stuns the prey, leaving it helpless as the shrimp devours it.
P.S. I'm new

 

[zeN||]

That's trippy, thanks for the trivia ~Z

 

[BacardiSpice]

Sounds like a Stomatopod! Good old Mantis Shrimps - here's a good site on them, in all their spearing, thumping glory:

Stomatopods

 

[buttermanr]

What you're describing is the pistol shrimp. They have one large claw that is used to shoot a water beam (not air) and stun their prey that way. Since they are nocturnal and bury in the sand they are hardly seem by divers, but they are actually the most common shrimp in the tropical oceans and most of the "crackling" noise that you hear around reefs is caused by them.

They have caused many near-heart-failures among salt water aquarium owners as their "shot" sound very much like cracking aquarium glass...

RB

Note: "smasher" mantis shrimp have kind of a hammer and don't shoot, but actually smash their prey. A large one will really crack the aquarium glass by the way.

 

[BacardiSpice]

You're quite right, RB - I was thinking of a 'spearer' (not a 'smasher') mantis shrimp, but of course it must be a 'pistol shrimp'. I must have been out of the water too long not to make the connection! We always knew them as 'popping shrimp'. Refresh my memory - do they form symbiotic relationships with some species of gobies? Off to google...

 

[Kat]

What I want to know is how they do in the deep fryer?