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Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them x.x
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:49 pm
by hadla
I try to give Roger a snail and I guess I scared him cause he punched my nail, didn't hurt but it shocked me! Then I'm trying to give the big puffs some snails and one decided to bite the same finger that Roger hit! So now I'm waiting for the liquid bandage to harden on the puffer bite and typing this with my left hand... *sigh* at least it's nice to know that Roger can't really hurt me yet if he decides to attack my hand :/
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:56 pm
by DMD123
keep it up and you will have to change your screen name to: 'hadla five fingers once'
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:25 am
by RTR
Hand-feeding puffers directly makes you qualified for the Darwin Awards. Use forceps, chopsticks, less-than-sharp skewers, threads without knots, etc. Teaching carnivores to associate human fingers with food is not very bright. Just the risk of Mycobacterium marinum infection alone should keep anyone from doing that, but with puffer's sharp and strong incisors, the risk of bite damage itself is absurdly high.
NIMFT, not ever.
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:47 pm
by Stratters
You want to see the pic of my puffer-mauled finger AGAIN? Seriously, use tongs, Piggy bit a huge chunk out of my finger, and left a neat V shaped notch in my fingernail.
Took over a month to heal.
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:33 pm
by hadla
Lol I'm not going to put my hand in to give them snails anymore. I'll just drop them in and I use a stainless steel skewer that I bent to hang worms on for them
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:49 pm
by bertie 83
You get nasty skin flaps from large puffer bites, if you are lucky. If you are unlucky you loose a finger.
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 9:52 pm
by G S P Freak
Never lost a piece of my finger yet, though I've never been inclined to hand feed. I did shave off a nice chunk today though when my water change tub snapped at the edge while carrying it and carved a hunk out of my finger :/, ouch! Oh the dangers of fishkeeping lol...
Oh and Bertie, nice puffer, seems like a very low-maintenance species.
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:19 pm
by sgtmyers88
I have been fortunate to not have my hands be seen as a snack. However, I have sliced my hand pretty bad on the plastic rim while cleaning one of my tanks. That was awful.
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:22 pm
by Master of Puffers
And why do you think pufferghoti gets to tidy up tanks while I feed the puffers at the other end??
TBH..I have never had a problem so far with one of the larger puffer species and biting..My one and only bite was from an orange banded/peacock puffer and that hurt enough for me!
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:01 pm
by eieio
hadla wrote:I try to give Roger a snail and I guess I scared him cause he punched my nail, didn't hurt but it shocked me! Then I'm trying to give the big puffs some snails and one decided to bite the same finger that Roger hit! So now I'm waiting for the liquid bandage to harden on the puffer bite and typing this with my left hand... *sigh* at least it's nice to know that Roger can't really hurt me yet if he decides to attack my hand :/
hi hadla!
I'm watching this show on NATGEO channel and thought of you & Roger
great show, BTW:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/w ... out-56489/
Re: Evidently my fish like to bite the hand that feeds them
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:53 pm
by hadla
Ha, I love Roger! He is the first one I check on in my tanks lol