keep your hands out of any charachin tank

[ultimatejay]

I have never been bit myself-luckily, but I dared my friend to put his finger inside my tank full of redsnakeheads one time. They were still babies about 4-5" and one of them clamped down on his finger and he freaked out and yanked his hand out of the tank with the snakehead still attatched to his finger. He yanked out with such force that he flung the snakehead all the way accross the room. I laughed my arse off and put the snakehead back in the tank and said, " Now that's how they catch em in Thailand."

 

[amesbien]

None of my fish have bitten me, but one time at the LFS some guy was like ill give u 2 dollars to but your finger in with that 12'+ oscar, i was like 2 BUCKS SWEET! How bad could it hurt.

wow was i wrong, that SOB hurt so bad.

 

[Bigbob55]

12'+ oscar

damn! 12 foot long oscar! sounds like he could have eaten your head in one bite!



Only fish I've been betten by is tiger barbs, its just annoying. Almost gotten bit by crawfish and RES. I used to have a aligator snapping turtle (awesome guy) and he got 1/2'' from biting my brother. I imagine that would have been a lot more painful than a RES...

 

[Stone Like Fish]

i touched the 4th most venomous snake in aus (live and wild) yesterday, no bites w00t w00t

 

[kpicht]

I've been bitten by Oscars, pacus, RBP, RD, FH and more...but the worse and the only one that hurts like the hell was when a 12" psycho clown triggerfish bited my finger .... my finger bleed for hours, that was 6 or 7 years ago and I have a "cute" scar thanks to that ·%$&/@# fish ....

 

[benzjamin13]

When I used to work at a lfs, I was grazed by a Vampire Tetra's teeth. It didn't draw any blood, but there was a lilttle cut that looked like a razor blade went over the top of my finger.

I've been bitten by a 6" Oscar and that hurt! Drew some blood on that one.

And just the other day, I was hand feeding my friend's puffer when it jumped out to attack the krill, but got my finger instead. Luckily, it hit the first knuckle so there was no damage, but I screamed like a little girl

 

[me_wee_todded]

I was just rereading this thread when it struck me,
Piranha and pacu are also characins.
The red belly pacu has been widely introduced as a pond cultured food fish in tropical areas and in New guinea where it is common to work naked when using nets in pond two people have died by having their genitalia bitten off by large pacu, ouch.

thats pretty dad though

 

[RuXPiN]

i was unfournate enough to get bitten by a RES. it was abt 5" and i think it drew blood. i got it off by putting my hand on the ground and relaxing it. the turtle backed into the water and let go.

o forgot to mention that i caught the turtle by accident while fishing

i gotta friend that traps huge snapping turtles, he handles like 50 a year, you are gonna get bit when you handle that many, anyway the only way to get a snapper to release his grip is to put a read or stick up his nose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!for real it works!!