Monster fish bites!!

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Scariest for me was hand feeding a 12' pool of monster fish and rays. There were 30" pacu, dozens of rays from 18-24" and all kinds of predators. I was watching the lone dorado in the 20" range and when he got 12' away I made a move to feed a ray and something grazed my hand n knocked it out of the way. Sure enough the dorado was swimming away with a hotdog and I was glad it wasn't a finger. I'd handle 1000 huge rays by hand over one unpredictable charicin. Rhom is the only fish I've owned that legit scares me to have any part of me in the tank
 
When I was around 14 years old did something very foolish played chicken with a red belly piranha's mouth while it was in a a net, red belly almost took a chunk out of my finger bled for a while. the most foolish thing I ever done in my life. Also got bit by a female convict with fry.
 
My old silver aro once bit me hard enough to draw blood. Like everyone says, not really painful, but scary when a 2' fish grabs your finger. My e-cat used to shock me all the time when I fed him though. Now he's calmed down, which is a good thing considering he's doubled in size since the last time she truly shocked me.
 
A dwarf snakehead bit me on back of my arm when I was doing a gravel clean he was hiding behind filter inlet at top of the tank , although a dwarf snakehead it still drew blood can't imagine what a giant one would do serious damage
My jardini bites me quite a lot but as long as he don't get a finger its not too bad , if he does get my finger one day I mite be in trouble he's 20"
 
Mangrove Jack broke my mates pointer and thumb when he was only about 12''. I gotta say, Mangrove Jack are the scariest, just the precision, my Jack can take a piece of frozen food less than a centimetre wide from between my fingers without touching my fingers at all. Although he is only 4'' atm. GATF and Armatus teeth are scary and I would never wish upon my worst enemy to be bitten by one, but they just don't have the pinpoint precision Jacks do.
 
One time while i was wade fishing for sea trout i caught one and tried to de-hook him but during the process my thumb SOMEHOW slipped into his throat. idk what was in there but their throats function like a Chinese finger trap there was sharp barbs that wouldn't let my finger out the harder i tried to pull it out. it drew blood and hurt really bad, no scares though. IDk how my finger actually ended up getting out though. i am very paranoid about getting hooks out of these fish now though :owned:
 
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