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my tiger barbs nibble this mole i have 1/2 way down my fore-arm when i do gravel vacs

My severums always attack the gravel vac. They have bred successfully and do get agressive during that time. Currently they have 8 babies (17 survived) but many went to friends. The gold sev lets me pet her. Great fish ~ the nibbles tickle and I always jump

my angels splash about and ram into my hands when they're defending fry

well now the gold one tried to attack my hand last water change the gold one is still much more skittish than the green but now they are both being slightly aggressive

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My angel's bitten me a few times, and it does hurt a little, but I guess, that's coz its only an angel.

i have two severums but i don't know their genders at all...

Heh it's actually pretty easy to tell them apart.

Males have long extension on there dorsal and anal fins
Females don't

my convicts try to eat my hands

Almost all of my shell dwellers are willing to bite me ... the occies and other little guys are just nips but the hecqui hurt!

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My pair of breeding convicts are VICSIOUS when I clean the tank, as is my Jack Dempsey. never hurts though.

I had a golden jaguar ( Nandopsis managuense ) who was defending about 50 fry. My daughter then 3 yrs old decided she was going to feed the fish, without permission.
I watched her climb up the stand and open the freeze dried krill.
As she opened the krill, it dumped in the tank. " Clemontine the Jag" darted to the top defending the young. My daughter saw me coming and thaught if she removed some of the evidence she wouldn't get into trouble.
She reached her hand into the tank, and THUD !! I could here her getting hit 5 feet away. She shouted and screamed, yanking her hand and Clemontine the Jag out of the tank. The fish went flying across the room, landing on a soft pillow and my daughter hit the floor bleeding. Neither Doctor or my wife thaught it was funny when my daughter got 3 little stitches in her finger.

It was funny just had to be there...
Needless to say the jaguars had to go

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I think the best was when Kirby (my porcupine puffer) tried to eat my finger. I was trying to pet him and I guess he thought "Oh, krill!" because he came and bit my pointer finger and broke the nail! It didn't really hurt, though, scared me more than anything.

i hand feed my severums, however they still nip me all the time, it doesn't hurt but it shocks u hehe, my male oscar bit me one day and it drew blood

my convict male(full grown)he goes for my hand without fale if my hand is in his home he bites me every time.it hurts too.

My red devil try to grab the food my hand when its feeding time and i kinda annoy it i get it hyped up by putting my hand the and touch the hump on it head and once it grab onto my friend finger when i told him to put it in the water and it made a mark all right

My Oscar's use to try and bite me... but i showed them that the hand is mighter than the fish! Not that it really hurt at the time, as they where quite small. Now, at 12" each, their mouths could easily fit my pinky in, and i'm not sure i like the idea of running around the house scrreaming with a fish attached to my finger

My Brasiliensis, on the other hand, just seems unwilling to learn. Luckily, his bite tickles more than anything... so we play a game of him trying to eat me... and me pretending my hand is a fish and trying to eat him. This goes on for a few minutes every time i feed the loaches. The only way to stop him eating ALL of the loach food is to place it by hand into spots where he can't get it. Crazy fish

my green severum actually tried to bite me during a gravel vac tonight. i actually got to pet it too...

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

i have two severums but i don't know their genders at all... i haven't seen any eggs anywhere though, so i don't think that's the case...

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Phew ouch I will have to watch me parrots then and hope they don't never manage to get me lol You know when they are comeing because they kind of stand there for a sec then charge at you lol

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how many do u have? maybe they bred? or its a female and she hid her eggs nearby?

"My Angels & Brichardi usually bite the Gravel Vac, but never attacked my hand."

The largest of my two angels does the same thing with a gravel vac. When I go to trim plants or scrub algae is when he bites my arm. It doesn't hurt but it's a lot more noticable then a guppy nip. And he doesn't run when I try to chase him away either.