I’ve got a smasher. I feed it clams and I can hear it smashing and the clam is in pieces after it’s done.
So today it gets puzzling. It molted sometime yesterday or last night (2nd time since I’ve had it) and I was digging out the remains of the molt. I found one of its smashers and upon further inspection it had a pointed barbed section that folded from the “mallet”. Is it that all mantis shrimp are able to spear but only smashing types can do both? Here are some pics.
So today it gets puzzling. It molted sometime yesterday or last night (2nd time since I’ve had it) and I was digging out the remains of the molt. I found one of its smashers and upon further inspection it had a pointed barbed section that folded from the “mallet”. Is it that all mantis shrimp are able to spear but only smashing types can do both? Here are some pics.