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stephanbakir
04-12-11, 04:24 PM
Went out looking for snakes today, and found this little guy eating a small fish, took him home to show a friend, gona feed it a feeder goldfish then release it tomorrow.

http://www.ssnakess.info/insect/uno.jpg

http://www.ssnakess.info/insect/dos.jpg
stephanbakir
04-12-11, 04:25 PM
Forgot to mention, its a water scorpion, sometimes called a flying water scorpion.
whoaxmary
04-13-11, 08:25 AM
Can't see the picture ?
Jendee
04-13-11, 10:14 AM
oh my!! makes my skin crawl...roach meets praying mantis! eeekkk!!
infernalis
04-13-11, 10:31 AM
fixed it........
RandyRhoads
04-13-11, 01:33 PM
:eek: Never heard of it but it looks wicked. It doesn't try to bite you?
mistersprinkles
04-13-11, 05:55 PM
make sure you keep it in the water you found it in and if you have it more than 24 hours change the water.
stephanbakir
04-14-11, 02:27 PM
Yep, kept em before, i let this one go though.
And no they don't bite.
stephanbakir
04-16-11, 08:56 PM
Just let it go lol, it flew into my fish tank when i took it out for a cleaning, and id prefer it doesn't kill em lol.
Shmoges
04-16-11, 10:11 PM
Your a nut for holding that thing!! They bite like hell!!
stephanbakir
04-16-11, 10:24 PM
I've had way worse lol, water scorpions aren't as bad as getting hit by a wave and getting smashed into a coral wall, then getting 310-320 sea urchin spines removed from your rear/lower back.
Fun times, wooo.
Shmoges
04-23-11, 07:39 PM
I got owned by a riptide once!! but neither compare to a evil water scorpion!!!

I think it was a riptide anyways, was in Hawaii a wave knocked me to the sand under water pinned me down and then sucked me out underwater. All I had to do was stand up but I was getting tossed around so much and dragged against coral so much I didn't know I was in 4+ feet of waters.
stephanbakir
04-24-11, 12:41 AM
It could have just been the current close to a reef normally rip tides pull you out to sea instead of tossing you around, they are much more of a constant pulling that you may or may not actually feel, half the time you are just swimming and you look around and you've gone 20-30 feet farther then you expected.
stephanbakir
04-24-11, 12:42 AM
I've had way worse lol, water scorpions aren't as bad as getting hit by a wave and getting smashed into a coral wall, then getting 310-320 sea urchin spines removed from your rear/lower back.
Fun times, wooo.

Not sure why i wrote 310-320... it was only about 150 spines.