Nearly Lost My Fingers Today! Lol

[simonas]

I was feeding my two snowflake morays and toadfish lancefish today

My daughter was in the room whilst I was dangling some infront of toadfish when one of the morays went for my finger! I nearly broke the tank in my panic in withdrawing my hand from water¬!!! my daughter was pi**ing herself!!!

 

[nmonks]

Morays find food by smell. They have very poor eyesight; at best they can detect movement and shadows. doubt the moray was deliberately having a go at you, but these sorts of accidents are actually very common. Morays can potentially cause problems when they bite because their saliva is somewhat toxic and/or bacteria-laden. While it won't kill you, it is very possible to get a nasty reaction from even a slight wound, so if a moray punctures your skin, you should ALWAYS seek medical attention.

In any case: it is best to feed fish, any fish, using forceps. If you don't have some, you can pick them up from any medical or educational supply store for literally a dollar or two. Forceps are not only safer and cleaner, but also more versatile, since they allow you to hand-feed even very small fish, which would otherwise be scared to get so close to your hand.

Cheers, Neale

 

[simonas]

Don't you ever go to bed Neale

I'm loving having these fish and it was qquite amusing this afternoon although more care will be taken by me in the future

is there much nutritional value in frozen lance fish as I have no problem feeding these

 

[nmonks]

Don't you ever go to bed Neale

Nope.

is there much nutritional value in frozen lance fish as I have no problem feeding these

Lancefish are fine, but I'd mix it up a little with mussel, prawn, squid etc. A single food item isn't really the best strategy with any fish.

Cheers, Neale

 

[simonas]

cheers

they have prawn already but not with the same vigour as the lance

I'll have a look out for some squid

I've got seom frozen blistered packs of mussel will give that a go but it seems to disperse in to finer particles when defrosted

 

[andywg]

I used to love giving my ribbon moray a finger before a prawn.

But then my ribbon moray has blunt molar-like teeth, rather than needle sharp teeth. It still drew blood once though.

 

[simonas]

I used to love giving my ribbon moray a finger before a prawn.

But then my ribbon moray has blunt molar-like teeth, rather than needle sharp teeth. It still drew blood once though.

excellent pics. yours are about the same size of mine. aren't there mouths huge!! but I think I'm to scared to attempt that

 

[CFC]

You wouldnt want to even think about trying that with Gymnothorax species, ribbon eels (Rhinomuraena species) like the Echidna species have blunt teeth for crushing shells of prey like large shrimp, Gymnothorax are fish eaters and have sharp conical teeth for holding onto prey and slicing flesh. I few years ago my mrs got bitten by our largest moray ( a 40" long Gymnothorax afer) and although the wound wasnt serious it poured with blood and took several hours to stop bleeding.

 

[fergalthefish]

blimey, my hub moaned when one of our clown loaches jabbed him with his barb!!! he played on that for hours!!!!! typical bloke but got no sympathy from me of course

 

[paul_219]

WOW eay nice time its seems like an aggressive specie.

 

[simonas]

You wouldnt want to even think about trying that with Gymnothorax species, ribbon eels (Rhinomuraena species) like the Echidna species have blunt teeth for crushing shells of prey like large shrimp, Gymnothorax are fish eaters and have sharp conical teeth for holding onto prey and slicing flesh. I few years ago my mrs got bitten by our largest moray ( a 40" long Gymnothorax afer) and although the wound wasnt serious it poured with blood and took several hours to stop bleeding.

dn't worry CFC I'll be takin your word for it as opposed to finding out myself!!!