Yes its finally happened, lastnight i trod the route all oddball keepers usually take at somepoint in their interest......

Yes i did the bichir war dance.....

Hand feeding my adult ornates and the female dicedes that the bit of skin between thumb and index looks really tasty and latches on. Of course it dosent register until i see the water turning red, thinking i cut my arm on the edge of the glass i try tro lift my arm she goes frantic, twisting and pulling and generally going half crazy.

By this time the pain registers and i yank my arm out, complete with enraged polypterid, generally swearing and hopping from foot to foot trying to figure out what to do.

Damned thing started twisting then, making it hurt more and more, im just glad now she dosent have teeth like a tiger fish. I lay my arm complete with bichir and run my thumb along to the groove by her throat and mouth, making her let go, scoop her up and chuck her back in.

So not only am i at woek *GRRRRR* i occasionally bleed on my keyboard as well, i guess this should techinically go in rant room but hell, it teaches odd keepers the lesson of caution, or at least how to dance and not care what people think of you.

damn dude, how deep is the cut?

Deep enough to hurt like bitch, eh, im not gonna even bother trying to eat my salt and vinegar crisps lol

damn! sorry to hear that

Why sorry? it was my daft fault for disturbing a pair off Ornates that look as if they are thinking of breeding, of course shes gonna be angry if i spoilt the "Mood"

Wow...that's a great story!...reminds me of the one about another admin on another forum getting too close to his "e-cat"... :D

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh: Dude, thats the most entertaining event of my whole day! HAHAHAHAHA :laugh:




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Ps, i hope your alright. :hug:

You've had a dul day haven't you miagi? :laugh:

Hmmmm, i noticed one thing, the music i listened to that day now instantly conjours the image of bloodthirsty polypterids to my mind :Vangry:

Hehehe, yeah kno who u mean, that was funny as I lmao. As they say "it's all good fun till someone gets hurt... then it's HILARIOUS!!"

I've been bit by my bichirs before, they latch on and roll :unsure: Lucky for me, mine was 4" long :lol:

Unlucky for me, mines an adult female, not only longer than the male but fatter as well, needless to say shes having to eat her dinner off the floor now :P

I wouldn't imagine you hand feeding that fish again :P

A little bit off of this topic but i have polypterid fry in my tank :D

Theres a load of them, and im currently overdosing the tank on water fleas as its so big, ive spent something like £80 on daphnia! Ma and Pa are staying in the tank at the mo as the fry is that tiny that they arent bothered by it.

The downside is ive gotta catch them again sometime and split them off from the fry, i wouldnt put it past them to eat the babies when they are bigger and worth the effort of eating

I was going to get a bichir to...

P.S. That story reminds me of the time I was at the fish store and an employee was attacked by a two inch clown fish...he jumped as if he was bitten by a pike....

Interesting..lol. I was hand feeding an ADF and apparently my betta snuck up behind my hand and I didn't see it, but when it nipped at my thumb it scared the crap out of me. It never did that before so it was just a surprise.

I saw some employee at my lfs to try and get a six inch gar or something with a net. It took two nets before he figured out the fish wasn't going to stop slicing a hole in them with its nose. :laugh:



Congrats on the fry, dude. Are you going to sell them or what?

Probably add them to the other seven juvies i have at the mo, theres no way i can keep all of them, they get too big as adults, probably keep the "best pair" for mysaelf with the adults and sell the rest, assuming of course they make it through frydom