eels: not as bad as camels
For a few years in my mid-to-late 20's I had a saltwater aquarium, 75 gallons, quite nice. After I'd had it a while, I bought a snowflake moray eel. We fed the vegetarian fish little globs of algae and fish food, and we fed the lionfish live goldfish.

The moray was probably 10" when I bought him. A few months later he's doubled in size, and he knows that when the top of the tank opens, food is coming. So instead of waiting like a good little eel, he starts *darting* at the hole in the top of the tank. And he can launch himself a good six or seven inches out of the water. So I'm reduced to flinging open the top, dropping pellets and live fish in and withdrawing as quickly as possible. Until one day I was too slow, and that little fish-fucker sunk his needle-sharp teeth into my finger and just hung on. It hurt like fuck and all I could do was flail my bleeding finger around until he got annoyed and dropped off.

So after that, we netted him, bagged him, and took him back to the fish store, which bought him back for three time what we'd paid for him.

Also, he ate our hermit crab.
( madrabbit is fully prepared, Tue 29 Apr 2008, 5:49, 4 replies)

clickety click
``Also, he ate our hermit crab,'' had me giggling silly.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Tue 29 Apr 2008, 6:24, closed)

^
Likewise
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 29 Apr 2008, 12:02, closed)

That is horrific
I have a fish phobia, and am sitting here trembling at my desk like, well, a scared little fluffy bunny rabbit :S
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Tue 29 Apr 2008, 12:04, closed)

When an eel bites your hand and that's not what you planned
that's a moray.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 Apr 2008, 13:29, closed)