Am I the only one...

webcricket said:
I don't have a problem with my fish tank fishies...but snorkelling out at the lake and running across a 3 foot long carp gets me running screaming out of the water every time! They're mean looking suckers! :eek:
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My mollies just can NOT resist a finger in their tank. I don't mind being nibbled on when I'm expecting it, but it does make me jump when I'm just trying to move something around in the tank.

OT, I grew up swimming with fishies, but you know what's even scarier than a 3 foot long carp? It is the shadow a 3 foot carp makes on the bottom of a lake...if they are swimming near the top on a sunny day, it looks like a GIANT MONSTER moving across the bottom. It used to terrify me when I was a kid!
 
I had a 4" or so green sunfish in a 100 some odd gall tank about 5-6 years ago and it would vigorusly attack anything you put in the tank, python tube, hand, scraper, but not the net, it would RUN, lol, it bit me on several ocasions, when he would get me on the inside of my arm near my elbo it hurt!!
 
I was doing some water tests today and the danios were always swarming around my hand when I went to dip the tubes in. Twice I had one swim into the tube by accident and had to be poured back out.
 
at first it freaked me out having them bump me but lately I have gotten use to it. We have to feed our rope fish bloodworm cubes by hand to make sure the other fish do not steal it from him. I use to be somewhat scared of him but since its the only way to make sure he eats its actually made me less scared of him.
 
that was probably me.....I have a phobia about fish water...don't touch it unless absolutely necessary.... ;)
 
Recently, I was working in my 125 gallon south american cichlid tank and I had my hand in the water when I was moving some rocks. While I had my hand in this tank, my texas cichlid which has been in the tank for about three and a half years and is about six inches in length(she's a big fish)decided that it is her tank, not mine and the mean bugger bit my arm actually leaving a mark on my arm for a few days. I shot my arm out of the tank so fast that a lot of water came with it. I had to keep chasing her with the net to keep her away from my arm. Freaked me out. I've been doing fish for more than ten years and this was the first time that a fish decided that I was lunch. Now I just throw some food in the tank about five or ten minutes before I start working on the tank and she leaves my arm alone. In the past I have had fish that might touch my arm or even kiss it but this was a first. Go figure!

Marinemom
 
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