Do fish bite?

Holly9937

Holly9937

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I'm just curious, do the fish that have teeth bite? After seeing the autopsied bichir, I'm not sure I would want to do tank maintenance with teeth like that!! Or do they just get used to it and ignore you?!
 
My Cichlid's have little itty bitty teeth. Just enough to let you know you've been nipped, not to draw blood or anything.. at least not mine. :D
 
Platys have teeth?!?! They wouldn't really worry me too much :laugh:
 
The skull of that bichir was only a baby, a 6 incher.

I've got 15 inch monsters (still not full grown adults) in a different tank, and their teeth are much larger.
But these guys don't bite, its their dorsal fins that you need to worry about. I was moving some of the 12+" guys and i had cuts and puncture holes all over my hands.
 
My congoes will bite at you. And you can see their teeth easily when you look at them. Not as big as some cichlid's I'm sure, but awfully large for peaceful community fish. The celebese rainbowfish nibble at arm hair, but they only tickle.

My angel fish routinely attacks me when I am cleaning that tank.

EDIT: I don't think this is a great picture, but I noticed that you can see the teeth a little bit here (this is my dominant male congo):

1499congocloseup_profile2-large.JPG


And here:

http://www.myfishtank.net/reviews/data/3/1499congo_profile2-large.JPG
 
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Ras another great shot, holly I have to be very careful of African tiger fish, but usualy he is too scared to come close, but when he gets to be about 2-3ft I think it will be a different story.
 
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