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Cleaner shrimp cleaned my hand!


ervine
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Hi guys,

Was moving one of my corals just now when my cleaner shrimp came up to me and started to clean my finger! Tingling sensation... hm...

And it only went for one of the fingers, tried giving it another but it wasn't interested... weird..

Anyone else experienced this before?

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experienced this lotsa times... they are very bold IME... when they climb up my palm I just stay still for a while then they start climbing up my hand cleaning... they pinch me pulling my skin with their pincers.

Live and Let Live

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Its pretty normal for them to do that.... in fact the feeling is quite interesting, like pins and needles kind of feel. Saw in a docu before that in Turkey, there is a underground pond of some sort where there are multitudes of small fishes that actually help to clean ones limbs. In ancient times and even now, people with skin diseases such as foot rot go there to have the fishes clean the dead and dieased skin away...

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You ought to try putting your hands in a tub of blue neon gobies.

Once they are trained to recognise you as the one to feed them, they'll swarm all over your hands! :)

AT

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