Octopus vs. Crab Video

[smoney]

Just choose like Flash-lo or Flash-hi or quicktime... Its a cool video with a battle between a octopus and a crab....

http://chubloo.com/vid_squishy.php

[erbio]

I dont find it entertainment, more like torture. That's 20 minutes of hell for the crab.

[smoney]

eeh tomato, tamato....

[plyr58]

I'm amazed the guy risked injuring his octopus to make an interneet video

[thecichlidpleco]

Not really a battle, more like a kid killing ants because he is bored.

[Aquatic Noggin]

I thought that was pretty interesting, after all that's what they eat in the wild. I'm surprised the crab gave up that good of a fight.

[smoney]

Well, from what I hear, it was a video of him filming a feeding time for the octopus, and then when the crab started fighting back, he just kept filming more. He later decided to make a video on the event.

Usually, the octopus are suppose to eat crabs, and I am sure that they fight back in the wild, and occasionally in the aquarium.

[Ehaze]

Thats sad... as stated above, like a kid killing ants.

don't get me wrong, everything must eat. i own snakes.

[tkeracer619]

not sad and not like killing ants. I doubt its fun to starve and I doubt kids eat ants after burning them with a magnifying glass.

[clowder]

I don't why you would think it's cruel? It's just like feeding a rat to a snake, or feeder fish in tanks. I have friends with octos and cuttlefish and they feed crabs

I thought the video was pretty cool. This kind of stuff happens in the ocean everyday, but now we get to see it

[kathainbowen]

I just found it particularly interesting when it looked like the bimac was hurling "toys" or decor at the crab.

[reef1973]

The poor crab.

[MSU Fan]

I once saw one of a giant octopus in a public aquarium killing a tiger(?) shark. the fight was over in less than 10 seconds...Octopus are amazing creatures.

And I don't see that as cruel. Obviously, the crab was holding its own for quite a while.

[Paradox009]

Strange..Ive never seen a crab last so long in the same tank as an octopus. Any that I have kept will instantly have the crab wrapped up in its arm and killing it the second it sees it.

[acrodave]

google...octopus eating shark that one is neat

[smoney]

I put the video up here, because I thought it was so cool and funny. I didn't know their was going to be so many baby ears around here... haha.

[Rosseau]

It is definitely interesting to watch.

I think partly because of his little crab and octopus health meters it is easy to call this guy a cruel idiot.

Though, we've all got animals in our tanks which really don't belong in them. Do any of the animals in our tanks really have a fair chance? What about the food we feed our reefs, did it have a fiar chance? .... This is a debate of the ages.

[Rosseau]

Here is a shark being eaten by an octopus at the Seattle Aquarium.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...09622962894202

[xroads]

Looks to me like the Octo was playing cat n mouse

[clowder]

Wow, that octopus consuming the shark video was fascinating. I didn't know that they would go after prey that big. Octos are crazy!

[m2434]

How big is that octopus/shark? looks huge!

[jubjubrsx]

that was stupid

[Hypo]

the dude had. fed the crab HGH prior to the, battle. So the crab put. up a good, fight.

[yellowwatchmen]

Originally posted by jubjubrsx
that was stupid

look at your avatar.

[johnny1]

Originally posted by Rosseau
Here is a shark being eaten by an octopus at the Seattle Aquarium.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...09622962894202

And to think I get upset when a hermit crab eats one of my snails.