Darling daughter has taken some very gory pics, I'll upload them when I get home. It's quite amusing, the Dr asked if I was the lady with the shark bite.
Good thing I love that bloody fish
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. RTR
My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus Punkster, the 4" red T miurus Mongo, the 4" A modestus 2 T biocellatus C valentini C coranata C papuan Also kept: lorteti DPs suvattii burrfish T niphobles
See that scar on my ring finger? That's where I fell off a chair, and punched out a window, severing the tendon. And you can't see my thumb, but there's a nice chunk of that missing, where I was chopping up horse carrots and the knife slipped.
I am incredibly accident prone
Never trust big puffers. The fingers you save may be your own. RTR
A couple of years ago Camille ripped a nice chunk of skin out of my finger near the cuticle which I went to the doc for. Just for fun, I asked him for a copy of the paperwork and had him change the diagnosis to "Nommed by Pufferfish." I still have it around here somewhere...
But yeah - don't stick your hands in your puffer's tank while they're hungry or eating. Seriously, don't do it. Big or small, salt or freshwater; don't matter. They'll nail ya.
sorry for your loss... they do make kevlar gloves though. They are used in the food industry for prep work. Might be handy to have on hand (pun intended).
if you follow me, you avoid stepping in the crap that I just did...
El Scorpio wrote:A couple of years ago Camille ripped a nice chunk of skin out of my finger near the cuticle which I went to the doc for. Just for fun, I asked him for a copy of the paperwork and had him change the diagnosis to "Nommed by Pufferfish." I still have it around here somewhere...
But yeah - don't stick your hands in your puffer's tank while they're hungry or eating. Seriously, don't do it. Big or small, salt or freshwater; don't matter. They'll nail ya.
Or when you think they are asleep... I hvae a small scar on my little finger where an poorange banded puffer bit me while I was clearing some plants from the tank. KIt took all my strength of will not to wrentch it off my finger but to gently persuade it to part from my finger.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But puffers are a girl`s best friend.
All fish-tank injuries are high risk. Marine TB is horrible and can be quite difficult to treat. Protect yourself first, last, and always.
Never, never, never put a hand with an unhealed injury in a fish tank. The microbes can be worse than the bites, but the bites can be potentially doubly dangerous - first the bite injury and then the secondary infection of that injury site.