Paroon shark "pangasius sanitwongsei" dangerous!!!!

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As far as I know they're not poisonous in the conventional sense that they have any venom in their spines like a Lion fish does. How ever most catfish and many fish have barbed and serated spines that are covered in a irritant to aide in the prevention of predation. If a predator tries to eat them the spines pierce the roof of the mouth and the irritant outside the spine add to the already unconfortable wound. If you've been stuck by one of course it's gonna hurt bad and the irritant is gonna help increase the amount of swelling, not to mention all the bacteria that was delivered thru the wound. I'm kind of anal when it comes to stuff like that. If you can take the pain you can do what I do to try and be safe which is putting my hand in as hot water as you can stand. Otherwise if the wound doesn't heal right you may have to go to a doctor to make sure you don't get a serious infection. Think of it like a Komodo dragon bite, their not poisonous but their mouths harbor loads of bacteria that when they get into broken skin are deadly. Often times a Komodo will bite an animal and then just wait for the animal to be crippled by the horrible bacterial infection and when the animals is too weak to fight back the Komodo finishes it off. Well sort of Komodos often eat their prey alive. That's not to say that your gonna die from being stuck with a catfish spine it's just a example.
 
koltsix said:
As far as I know they're not poisonous in the conventional sense that they have any venom in their spines like a Lion fish does. How ever most catfish and many fish have barbed and serated spines that are covered in a irritant to aide in the prevention of predation. If a predator tries to eat them the spines pierce the roof of the mouth and the irritant outside the spine add to the already unconfortable wound. If you've been stuck by one of course it's gonna hurt bad and the irritant is gonna help increase the amount of swelling, not to mention all the bacteria that was delivered thru the wound. I'm kind of anal when it comes to stuff like that. If you can take the pain you can do what I do to try and be safe which is putting my hand in as hot water as you can stand. Otherwise if the wound doesn't heal right you may have to go to a doctor to make sure you don't get a serious infection.
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Ya, I've heard of some paroons spines piercing a guys body and ripping out all his guts...dunno if its true or not though lol
 
C L O W N K N I F E said:
Ya, I've heard of some paroons spines piercing a guys body and ripping out all his guts...dunno if its true or not though lol
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Sounds a little far fetched that it pulled the guys guts out. Lol! How ever dying from getting stabbed by one of their spines in the stomach is possible. These guys do get big and a large one struggling in a net with a fisherman could conceivably seriously injure or kill the fisherman while thrashing about if the fisherman is impaled in the right spot.
 
koltsix said:
Sounds a little far fetched that it pulled the guys guts out. Lol! How ever dying from getting stabbed by one of their spines in the stomach is possible. These guys do get big and a large one struggling in a net with a fisherman could conceivably seriously injure or kill the fisherman while thrashing about.
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haha..ya
 
daammn thanks for the info man.. i knew that they have fin that can hurt but never thot that those are venomous..lol.. venomous or not we should be carefull..hehehe lol
 
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