Turkish "doctor fish" nibble at Japanese market

[Vitaliy]

HAKONE, Japan (Reuters) - The Japanese are known for eating more fish than any other nation in the world -- now fish may have a chance to get their own back.
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In a beauty treatment imported from Turkey, bathers at "Dr Fish", a new spa in the hot spring resort of Hakone, dip their feet into a warm pool teeming with fish that nibble away at dead skin and bacteria.

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[The TRUST]

Now that is interesting. They should use Panaques. LOL

 

[DeLgAdO]

Now that is interesting. They should use Panaques. LOL

for those rough patches

 

[hareball]

they should try some marine cleaner shrimp!

 

[The TRUST]

Looks like they use Garra rufa

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=26483&genusname=Garra&speciesname=rufa

 

[hareball]

Looks like they use Garra rufa

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=26483&genusname=Garra&speciesname=rufa

maybe a hybrid Garra lufa

 

[guppy]

Gara rufa, also cyprinion macrostomus, phenomenum is famous at the Kangal Balikli Cermik hot springs and has been used since at least the roman empire days.

 

[starrfish71]

HA! When I worked at petrstores, I used to call the baby africans my manicurists... they would nibble all loose skin off of my fingers and hands, and it felt really good- how funny!

 

[DeLgAdO]

if you need amputation

use red snakeheads

 

[edotero]

This sounds fishy... ;-)