Flowerhorn forsure. Ours has a good 2-3mm fang at 6" or so... And shes not afraid to leave the water for your finger either.
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What fish intimidates you the most? That you've owned
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I would say my 8-10" zig-zag eel... the spikes on it freak me out and when it escaped from its old tank one night it was a very strange experience trying to get it back in lol!
Grumpy (an <6" Bowfin at the time) bit a buddy of mine's finger. It was during an early season NFL Sunday extravaganza with many buddies present.
Most us us almost pee-pee'd our selves laughing so hard. The victim was doing his imitation of Duece Bigalow (fishy, fishy) poking his finger through the 1" square net cover into the deck pond to mess with my 12+" Long Nose Gar, and Grumpy darted from the other end of the pond to "latch" onto his finger!
Grumpy drew some blood, and when we cleaned the wound. you could see three clear pin holes through the nail of the index finger!
Keeping a dozen + Bowfins, I have never had one even attempt a nibble even during hand feeding!
I am getting worried, as some other MFK posters has informed me that Oscars can seriously bite. Mine are 14" + and play with me all the rime, ramming my hand incredibly hard, but the bite is obviously 100% play. I just hope that the four Bowfins all > 12" in the tank don't follow suite!
My old childhood favorite pet. Red Snakehead named Bomber. An escape artist. He jumped out of the tank once (through glass with books on it) and I found him on the floor hours later nearly dry, just slightly sticky. Put him back in the tank, rocked him forward and back and he shook violently, he then took a gulp of air and proceeded to demolish the bluegill that were in his tank as food from earlier in the day before his escape.
I fed him a bullfrog once. Held it by it's back legs, face in the water. Bomber swallowed the entire bullfrog and went all of the way up to my thumb, pointer, and middle fingers. cutting me open and leading to 6 stitches and a sweet scar that I still have 16 years later.
Do not hand feed snakeheads!!!
Although I'd give my left testicle to have another one
I fed him a bullfrog once. Held it by it's back legs, face in the water. Bomber swallowed the entire bullfrog and went all of the way up to my thumb, pointer, and middle fingers. cutting me open and leading to 6 stitches and a sweet scar that I still have 16 years later.
Do not hand feed snakeheads!!!
Although I'd give my left testicle to have another one
Wow I'm never worried about my bichirs going after me as none ever had, maybe I should be more careful, I'd imagine my 7 inch ornate could pack a stitches required bite
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My old childhood favorite pet. Red Snakehead named Bomber. An escape artist. He jumped out of the tank once (through glass with books on it) and I found him on the floor hours later nearly dry, just slightly sticky. Put him back in the tank, rocked him forward and back and he shook violently, he then took a gulp of air and proceeded to demolish the bluegill that were in his tank as food from earlier in the day before his escape.
I fed him a bullfrog once. Held it by it's back legs, face in the water. Bomber swallowed the entire bullfrog and went all of the way up to my thumb, pointer, and middle fingers. cutting me open and leading to 6 stitches and a sweet scar that I still have 16 years later.
Do not hand feed snakeheads!!!
Although I'd give my left testicle to have another one
Sorry for the double but I don't know how to edit in quotes, wow that's intense, id hand feed my red hi fin wolf fish and he gets pretty close to the fingers sometimes. Usually its just long worms or feeders held between my knuckles so there's nothing to latch onto, and I feel like (at least IMO) your fingers may resemble worms if not held close together. I always keep my fingers very close when in the tank, never sprawl them out. Not on this site but I heard of someone pinky being ripped off by an aimara wolf, I'd imagine quite a few of the fish we keep could do that as adults
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It was my fault, I was holding his shrimp lol I imagine that I would have had to get stiches but he bit my thumb nail
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that would be my jaguar fish ! i was putting some rocks inside the tanks and then suddenly he charged at my finger. scary ! xD
