Fish foot massage

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I took these pictures in Thailand. For a small fee, you can have foot massage by hundreds of fish. The fish are native Siamese algae eater. They are the best algae eater that will concsume even recalcitrant black beard algae. Someone in Thailand found a way to make profit from these tiny fish by employing them to provide foot massage services.


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lix.ma14

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People do it with guppy like fish too.
 
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imusuallyuseless

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I'd heard some kinda concern about fish spreading stuff person to person
 
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imusuallyuseless said:
I'd heard some kinda concern about fish spreading stuff person to person
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lix.ma14 said:
like what? It's like they are infected by some killer paracite.
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I';ve read about it too, there are some foot and mouth diseases which can be past on from one person to the next because in essence, those fish are eating dead skin etc off peoples feet, and lets be honest, not every person in this world takes the best care of themselves, and i find especially in Asia, a lot of people are un-aware of diseases such as verruca's (planter warts) etc... which adds to the dangers of doing things like this...

In fact, i'm almost sure i've read that a few places banned this practice for that very reason of people getting all types of diseases off one another...
 
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My saltwater skunk shrimp will clean my hands if I put them in the tank. Feels weird and it tickles. I've heard of people getting tb from fish but not anything else. Interesting.


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