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outhus
Jan 28, '05, 6:21pm
has anyone ever been bitten by there cuttle??? mine is getting pretty friendly but sometimes she gets a little playful and tries to attack me. i am so curious to see if she would actually bite me and how bad it would hurt,. but i get too scared and can never go through with it.
marinebio_guy
Jan 28, '05, 7:31pm
I've been bitten by squid and octopus, but I've never had a cuttlefish bite me.
cthulhu77
Jan 29, '05, 4:53am
Outhus: of course it is going to hurt ! A cuttle beak removes a nice little chunk of flesh...I would probably recommend not experimenting in this area...kind of like taking a bath and dropping the radio in the water to see what will happen. :shock:
corw314
Jan 29, '05, 7:47am
My daughtor Jess was mistakenly bitten by Inklet, a young bimac at the time. He didn't break the skin but left two marks on her finger!!! We used to have the video posted on site! She did more screaming than hurt!!!!
chrono_war01
Jan 29, '05, 2:11pm
Doesn't sound fun being bitten by a pet.
I've been bitten 4 times now by midget octis. I WOULD NOT recommend it!!! It is painful if they inject the saliva (like a bee or hornet sting but lasts longer) and there is the possibility of being allergic to the toxin.
J
i seem to remeber that video...though there was a lot of laughing on your part if i recall -
in the before you buy article by colling he says a cuttle will never grab your hand and always only the food though it sound like it is extreemly painfull if you do get bitten - my guess would be if you disrupt their favourite rocks or scare them they may bite but otherwise i think your safe...
please dont tempt fate though cos i have a nasty habit of predicting the exact opposite of what eventuates...lol
joel_ang
Jan 31, '05, 3:07am
My cuttles never tried biting me, only when i touched its tentacles, the closest i have been to getting bitten is being nicked on the nail whilst playing tug of war using my finger.
chrono_war01
Jan 31, '05, 8:32am
Still scary, Squid, Octo and squid all seem so scary now. I'm scared, I'm leaving for the first plane inland. :lol:
Colin
Jan 31, '05, 12:00pm
colling
Me?
No, i have been nipped but didnt draw blood
yeh you said they dont usually grab your hand or sumthing
though now i am worried - i am scared of this tiny 3 stripe damsel cos it viciously attacks me whenever i stick a hand in the tank to feed anemone corals etc... and i really HATE it really i cant wait to take it back to the lfs for credit (a whole 4$) but i wont pretend flushing it hasnt crossed my mind) this is of course if i can catch it!!! lol ive tried nets and traps!!! ahhh mann!!!! i even impailed my hand on a stray piece of wire and couldnt pull it back off cos i lunged at it so hard with the net and needless to say i quite missed as my hand never reached the water (eeewwwww - worst memory of my life) blood everywhere - the fish liked it...lol)
will a cuttle attack you like this if you move a rock or something? or does it just happen in playing and etting carried away? somehow i dont think loosing a few fingers could divert me to another hobby...lol
LOL
no i was never attacked and the only reason i got bitten was by holding onto its food
they did try to kill me by spraying water onto me when i was holding the extension cable in my hand though ;)
chrono_war01
Feb 01, '05, 9:53am
Smart, the ceph making it look like a lil accident by draging your hand into the tank after you die :evil:
haha im liking these theories - it sounds exactly like what the damsel was trying to do - stage my suicide - taking chunks out of my wrist...lol
chrono_war01
Feb 02, '05, 4:28am
haha im liking these theories - it sounds exactly like what the damsel was trying to do - stage my suicide - taking chunks out of my wrist...lol
and make them look like giant flea bites :lol:
very large fleas indeed
it got me again today and my little fingernail is now bleeding... still from a few hours ago!!! arghhhh
any hints on catching the fish?
joel_ang
Feb 03, '05, 6:52am
A cuttle would solve all your problems oscar... :wink:
:cuttle: ..................... :goldfish:
corw314
Feb 03, '05, 7:13am
:shock: Wow!!! A damsel got ya??? Didn't realize they could inflict such bodily injury......
chrono_war01
Feb 03, '05, 10:24am
You should see the wild ones. They make those meancing sanpping nosies likee crunching bones and they have been knowned to bite scuba divers.
it is quite a large damsel i think well perhaps i made it sound a bit worse than it was...LOL :lol:
but it got a nail flag thing so it did bleed for ages - not that it particularly hurt!!! lol :grin:
it gives you an awful shock when you dont see it coming!!!
BUT GUESS WHAT JOEL!!! MAYBE A CUTTLE CAN BE THE SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEMS COS THE LFS RANG TO SAY THEY HAVE ONE IN!!! HOW LUCKY AM I - THEY SAID THEY ONLY GET BOUT TWO IN A YEAR AND I ONLY WAITED 3 WEEKS!!!
but now i am really worried!!! ill post another thread asking for advice on arrival/transport etc!!! gosh i am a bit unprepared to tell you the truth - ill have to feed freshwater feeders for a week till i can get to the beach!!
:cuttle: :cuttle:
chrono_war01
Feb 04, '05, 11:31am
Hm...freshwater? I'll try to feed it seafood from the market if I were you. :wink:
cthulhu77
Feb 04, '05, 12:30pm
The lfs should have frozen ocean fish (smelt or something), or shrimp...you should be ok there...keep us posted !
g
awww... what a disaster day - i attempted a 50 % water change for the first time ever and it ended up being an all day and night ordeal where i changed about 80 % of the water!!! oh man what a day - i will be spending most of tomorrow fixing up what i did today
tried to place the protien skimmer on the outflow from the main tank but the resistance was too high so the skimmer wasnt working and the main tank nearly flooded... any ideas? i think ill just put the skimmer back at the end of the sump and put up with it for now...
downstairs is a complete mess and there is water everywhere!!!... not a good day at all... on the bright side i managed to catch most of the fish and am taking them back tomorrow...
on the ven darker than the dark side i mentioned before - the cuttle was dead when i got to the store... i guess the capture transfer lights and people and inking were to much for the little 5cm thing - it looked like a papuan cuttle but it is hard to tell when they are dead - but it had the patch above the eyes and the right body shape - ahh well...maybe next time in 7months when the get them in again... sniff sniff
erich orser
Feb 05, '05, 7:37am
All I can think of is when surf-photographer Alex Kerstich was ambushed by Dosidicus Gigas while diving in the Sea of Cortez. He described these massive squid as removing "softball"-sized chunks of flesh from the poor dogfish that the boat was pulling-up. Mean critters. Boy, I like them. Thank God they turn-up along my coastline.
Hope I can see them healthy and alive someday.
Erich
chrono_war01
Feb 05, '05, 8:28am
Letter from Mr.Humbolt Gigas to Erich
Dear Erich,
Thank you fror your admiration to or fellow cephs. We would like to meet 100 feet below surface in the middle of the sea. Please do not bring your wet suit, diving gear and please bring a bottle of ketchup and some BBQ sauce. See your there!
Yours
:histio:
P.S: Please put butter on yourself and soak (marinate) with herbs sauce. We like poeple who are nice and (re)freshing!