NANFA-- Okini
Edward Venn (e_venn_at_hotmail.com)
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:07:48 -0000
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Irashai
let's start with some tuna–all sizes and species, salmon, seatrout, snapper,
seabass, blowfish(here's a killer), eel, makeral, parrotfish, filefish,
crab, shrimp, sea urchin, basically anything with fins or is slimy and comes
from saltwater.
>
>It must have been a fake finger made of delicate meat! My bass can't even
>tear nightcrawlers, I have to cut them!
>
>They've 'bitten' me but it feels like being grabbed by med. grain
>sandpaper.
>No 'pain'.
>
>The piranha would be a different story. They have teeth!
>
>Ed, what fish is used for sushi? I'm just curious...
>
>Amy
>
>
>>"...this bass took the tip of his finger off."
>>
>>Please tell me you're kidding me. I let my green sunfish take food out of
>>my hand and he bites my fingers often. Not only is there no blood, there
>>is
>>virtually no pain. There's no way a bass has the teeth to cut through a
>>finger.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Edward Venn
>>Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:21 AM
>>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Keeping Largemouths in Aquarium...
>>
>>
>>When I was in High School in beautiful downtown Stoney Creek we caught
>>some
>>chain pickerel and several small mouth bass. One bass would spend most of
>>his time resting on his side by a large rock to one side of the tank.
>>Every
>>day during science class one of my friends would stick his hand in and
>>prod
>>the fish until, one day, this bass took the tip of his finger off. Rob
>>left
>>the bass alone after that-although I did encourage him once or twice to
>>play
>>
>>with the large natteri piranha our biology teacher kept at the back of the
>>class. (what a maroon!)
>>
>>Ed
>>Tokyo Japan
>
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