Giant FW Prawns

[mdm]

anyone saw the giant FW prawns C328 is selling?
they are around 20cm long with even longer claws!
think cost $28 each...

[Justikanz]

Yah... I wanted to make fun of Aunty for starting a cze char store... Keke... But she was too busy that day... See whether I can make fun at her later when I reach the shop...

Wonder if anyone would think of buying them as food!... They sure are big...

[stormhawk]

Some kind of long-arm Macrobrachium species. They're truly giants. Probably would taste quite nice when fried..

[budak]

should be M rosenbergii.... the so-called udang galah... nasty pincers..

[hwchoy]

M. rosenbergii, sibeh tasty yumyum.

[MrTree]

Uncle Choy, got how many this kind(giant + blue pincers) around the world? So many places got this shrimp...including here..

[Justikanz]

Aunty laughed and asked me if I wanted her to cook them when I jested that she is opening cze char store now! Haha... Choy, you wanna taste Aunty's cooking?

[aquarius]

I didn't notice the big shrimp you all are talking about but i saw a shrimp that looks abit like the ones that are sold as feeder. Only the claws are short and it has black stripes. Very nice and selling at i think $1 only!

[hwchoy]

Uncle Choy, got how many this kind(giant + blue pincers) around the world? So many places got this shrimp...including here..

maybe the larvae grow in the sea.

[mdm]

maybe those who keeps a monsters' tank can buy them...
would be spectacular

[centaurfly]

I didn't notice the big shrimp you all are talking about but i saw a shrimp that looks abit like the ones that are sold as feeder. Only the claws are short and it has black stripes. Very nice and selling at i think $1 only!

Do they look like this?
http://www.miami-aquaculture.com/macrobra.htm

[GaspingGurami]

Common prawn found in tidal rivers in Malaysia, called Udang Galah. Don't taste as good as shrimps and prawns from the seaas the flesh is hard and has a "muddy" taste. Best cooked in Tom Yam to kill the smell and give it some taste.

Used to fish for it in Kota Tinggi and Sedili rivers in Johor. Using earthworms or fresh cockles. But their favourite bait is live guppies, hooked in the dorsal.

So I don't think it is advisable to keep in a tank with fish.

[evolim83]

I didn't notice the big shrimp you all are talking about but i saw a shrimp that looks abit like the ones that are sold as feeder. Only the claws are short and it has black stripes. Very nice and selling at i think $1 only!

Aquarius, the giant prawn is not kept in the back tank with the rest of the shrimps. Its kept in the tank near where all the feeder shrimps are kept, beside all the $1 a pot plants, where "Ah Boy" always do repacking.

Looks like the prawns that are caught when we go prawn-fishing. Just that their pincers are at least 3 times longer!!!

[budak]

Click here to see a really big freshwater decapod.

[hwchoy]

Common prawn found in tidal rivers in Malaysia, called Udang Galah. Don't taste as good as shrimps and prawns from the seaas the flesh is hard and has a "muddy" taste. Best cooked in Tom Yam to kill the smell and give it some taste.

Used to fish for it in Kota Tinggi and Sedili rivers in Johor. Using earthworms or fresh cockles. But their favourite bait is live guppies, hooked in the dorsal.

So I don't think it is advisable to keep in a tank with fish.

maybe talking about different prawn. this prawn is quite expensive one leh, at least the one I ate in Brunei is damn good, huge but yet tender.

[hwchoy]

Click here to see a really big freshwater decapod.

I think true prawns (vs crayfish/lobster) don't grow that big. incidentally the largest M. rosenbergii on record is in the RMBR. It (just the shell) was purchased from a fisherman in Sabah (or Sarawak, can't remember) by our guys in NUS.

[aquarius]

Aquarius, the giant prawn is not kept in the back tank with the rest of the shrimps. Its kept in the tank near where all the feeder shrimps are kept, beside all the $1 a pot plants, where "Ah Boy" always do repacking.

Looks like the prawns that are caught when we go prawn-fishing. Just that their pincers are at least 3 times longer!!!

Centaurfly - No, it doesn't look like the one in the picture.

That means i didn't noticed the Big shrimp. If i'm not wrong it was at the area where they put the packets of shrimps in the tanks. I was looking to buy some cherry shrimps when i happened to see it. They are about the size of an adult yamato, transparent body with alot of black strips and the claws are short not long.

[Justikanz]

Dun think it qualifies to be called a shrimp... Seriously wonder who will buy it... Or has it been bought?

[mdm]

think it's way larger to be a shrimp...

btw, this monster is bigger than those marine edible ones sold in the seafood restaurants...
is it the biggest FW prawn?

[XnSdVd]

Actually it's Macrobrachium Rosenbergii(Hwchoy, did I spell that right?), which technically makes it a shrimp. The largest freshwater shrimp in the world to boot. And a native of singapore up untill the 80s when the local strains were whiped out by overfishing.

For those of you who'd like to try their hand at catching these monsters, head down to the fishing pond near pasir ris MRT(you can see it from the platform). You can rent a rod and try your luck. Ponds are mostly stocked with 4inch specimens though I did see one the size of my forearm in the ponds' tank... And no i wouldn't advise putting them anywhere near your planted tanks. Think of them as long armed crayfish.