Have you been bit by your gar?

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The gar is the last fish I have that is still hand-fed. And I should say that I haven't been doing it as much lately because I moved some fish around and he has a better chance at getting food now. But if anyone is going to try it...I'd say worms are the safest bet. You don't even have to put your hand in the water to feed them worms. Just hang the worm in there. Now...how many of you are thinking "Hmm...I should try that with a nightcrawler just to see what happens"? :D
 
My gars never hit me while my whole arm was in the tank. The times I was talking to someone and left my fingers near the top of the tank resulted in snaps at my fingers. The octopus bite was to my palm. My cousin was showing me how to hold a mediterranean octopus when we went catching them for dinner. Apparently, holding them safely on a flat palm so they don't bite doesn't include doing so while poking them with your other finger. I ticked it off and it bit my palm. A ray nailed me in the ankle while body surfing. I didn't heed the advice to 'shuffle your feet', stepped on a mottled ray, and got nailed. Also took a spine in my palm while removing a hook from a pacific ray. Both stings needed hot soaks, stitches, antibiotics, and pain meds to relieve. My 1.5 foot long e cat hit me directly against skin, knocked my butt across the fish room and knocked my butt out. The rest is the normal hundreds of piercings from teeth, dorsal spines, pectoral spines, opercular spines, etc that are inevitable in this hobby.
 
Oddball thats crazy ! :what:

How did the clarias sting feel like? I know of one german MFK who went to hospital after that...
 
Ive been bit, stung and everything in between even had a 30 inch silver aro jump out and hit me while cleaning(he wasn't trying to hit me) scared the **** out of me Haha they all just end up a good story!

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The clarias, fossil cat, and wasp fish all ended in hospital visits. All needed hot soaks (to break down the slime proteins). The clarias hit felt like an ice pick stabbed me in the forearm and required irrigating since the spine went to the bone, webril to pack the wound but leave it open to drain, antibiotic, and a pain shot. I was also given epinephrine for the fossil cat and wasp fish hits because of their venom.
 
Oddball said:
The clarias, fossil cat, and wasp fish all ended in hospital visits. All needed hot soaks (to break down the slime proteins). The clarias hit felt like an ice pick stabbed me in the forearm and required irrigating since the spine went to the bone, webril to pack the wound but leave it open to drain, antibiotic, and a pain shot. I was also given epinephrine for the fossil cat and wasp fish hits because of their venom.
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Oh man that sounds so painful it sent shivers down my spine.
Thanks for sharing with us :)
 
I have two florida gar and they sometimes overshoot and get my finger with the shrimp that I feed them. one is about 10" and the other is about 8 or 9.
 
Hybrid Gar took my right index finger just clear off.. had to dig the finger out of the fishes mouth... Yeah that's the story I'm sticking with..

Also had a Fossil cat hit Phil.. I wanted to just shoot myself to end that particular sequence of pain.. Been nailed by a couple Madtoms as well from poor handling when removing them from nets and traps.. Irritating and momentarily painful but nothing like the Fossil cat.
 
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