View Full Version : Who keeps these in there tank?
fish_freak
09-18-2006, 6:59 PM
Wow how would you like to come across one of these monster's? I dont know what it is all I know is it came out of lake chaimplain in Vermont. I got the pic from a local fisherman forum that I am a member at. One ugly beast!
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e178/bigjeff532003/fish/1009Vermont__06_001.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e178/bigjeff532003/fish/1009Vermont__06_003.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e178/bigjeff532003/fish/1009Vermont__06_004.jpg
Dangerdoll
09-18-2006, 7:02 PM
looks like some sort of lamprey.... not something I want in my tank... blech!!
jm1212
09-18-2006, 7:02 PM
as my sister would say, "it looks like its going to jump out of the tank and suck your brain out" and it in fact sucks blood and has rows of teeth... i know i wouldnt want one in my tanks...
Dangerdoll
09-18-2006, 7:13 PM
yeah, reminds me of a bad sci-fi flick
looks like some sort of lamprey.... not something I want in my tank... blech!!
yep i think its a lamprey too, there ugly mofos
boofish2
09-18-2006, 9:13 PM
ulchhh... I just saw a Discovery thing on those guys, it is a lamprey! Yuck.
Rallysman
09-18-2006, 9:39 PM
I'd go for it as long as the tank wasnt acrylic lol.
fishcatch22
09-18-2006, 10:24 PM
I find them facsinating, and would love to keep one as a pet. they are one of the world's most primitive fish, and lack true jaws. (but they have plenty of teeth!)
danio_rerio_87
09-18-2006, 10:38 PM
yeah, reminds me of a bad sci-fi flick Anybody ever seen the movie Tremors ?
fish_freak
09-18-2006, 10:47 PM
Anybody ever seen the movie Tremors ?
Thats exactly what I was thinking when I first saw it! lol
plah831
09-18-2006, 10:51 PM
yeah, lampreys are freakin' nasty. Hagfish (another jawless fish) are better because at least they don't have those teeth. Hagfish are often raised in Asia and sold as "eelskin". So if you buy an eelskin wallet, it's probably one of these dudes http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/labs/biomaterials/overhand.jpg
They do a cool trick where they tie themselves in a knot to get traction when tearing chunks out of carcasses. They also produce slime like nothing else. They will literally fill a bucket with thick slime in minutes.
But lampreys are scary. There's actually an interesting story about their invasion from the Atlantic Ocean into the Great Lakes. To help reduce their numbers (they were decimating native fish stocks), they had to develop a lampricide, a toxin that was poisonous only to the larval stage. The larvae are called ammocaetes and bury themselves in the substrate.
I've only seen one lamprey in real life. I was in a, shall we say, less than sober state. So when I saw it flashing on the rock I was sitting on in a stream, I thought I had imagined it. But it was real, and totally like something out of a nightmare. Luckily, it was only a small one, like a foot long.
fishcatch22
09-19-2006, 2:13 AM
yeah, lampreys are freakin' nasty. Hagfish (another jawless fish) are better because at least they don't have those teeth. Hagfish are often raised in Asia and sold as "eelskin". So if you buy an eelskin wallet, it's probably one of these dudes http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/labs/biomaterials/overhand.jpg
They do a cool trick where they tie themselves in a knot to get traction when tearing chunks out of carcasses. They also produce slime like nothing else. They will literally fill a bucket with thick slime in minutes.
But lampreys are scary. There's actually an interesting story about their invasion from the Atlantic Ocean into the Great Lakes. To help reduce their numbers (they were decimating native fish stocks), they had to develop a lampricide, a toxin that was poisonous only to the larval stage. The larvae are called ammocaetes and bury themselves in the substrate.
I've only seen one lamprey in real life. I was in a, shall we say, less than sober state. So when I saw it flashing on the rock I was sitting on in a stream, I thought I had imagined it. But it was real, and totally like something out of a nightmare. Luckily, it was only a small one, like a foot long.but aren't they cool? they're living fossils!
plah831
09-19-2006, 3:08 AM
oh, totally. just wouldn't want to run into a wild lamprey. Ugh.
BTW, I like your new avatar. Very cute :)
I know what you mean about the Hagfish. I picked one out of a prawn trap a few years back. What a mistake. It took forever to get the slime off my hand. I had to wait for the trap to dry so that I could pull all the slime off. Those things are nasty!!
Chickieepooh2u
09-19-2006, 11:42 AM
Lamprey huh? LOL ewww, Here I was gonna say a snakehead.