I tried to find a fred from waaay back on this piscatorial subject.

The BRITS seem to have taken it to extremes, love it.......LOL

After reading this (abridged), my mind boggles at the sexual inuendos.

I had the foot pedicure one time at Patuchak, felt good.

He he at the time, I did visualise sitting in a bath with the fish.........LOL..... S.M.D.O

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Fishy foot spas investigated

One of the fastest-growing beauty treatments in Britain, fish pedicures - during which tiny toothless carp smooth down feet by eating dead skin - has come under scrutiny from health experts and animal rights campaigners.

The number of UK outlets offering pedicures with Garra rufa, fish that lift off hard skin and, through an enzyme in their saliva are thought to heal conditions such as psoriasis and eczema, is growing rapidly.

Beauty salons are already starting to move on to full body immersion tanks.

The practice of using the fish to heal skin dates back over 400 years in their native southern Turkish river basins.

Turkey. hmmmmmmmmm..........long way.

Turkey's Government has now made the Garra rufa a protected species over concerns about exploitation by spas, which has led to some outlets in the US using chin chin, which masquerade as Garra rufa but doesn't do the job as well and often dies in the process.

At least three companies in the UK run franchise operations for fish pedicures and several dozen online offer complete kits for a Garra rufa business.

One firm, Appy Feet, has opened 21 stores throughout the UK with double that planned.

Interesting.

In Fiji, at low tide, we sometimes had a warm soak in the shallows (the shallow water would get very warm). There was a type of angel fish or clown fish that would peck at your body...it didn't hurt, but it took a bit of getting used to.

I think this piscean pedicure sounds like a good idea.

Hmmm...local business idea.

In the little stream that flows down the mountain at Mt Erawan in Kanchanaburi there are those little fish that nibble on your skin. If you stand still for a few moments they fasten themselves to your leg and start nibbling. I have a Thai friend who runs a travel agency as well as those fish tanks spas with all the nibbling fish. I sat in one tank for half an hour and the fish completely cleaned off my old, dead skin and turned my feet as soft as a baby's bum. Prior to the fish nibbling my feet were rough and scaled with old skin around my toes.

In the little stream that flows down the mountain at Mt Erawan in Kanchanaburi there are those little fish that nibble on your skin. If you stand still for a few moments they fasten themselves to your leg and start nibbling. I have a Thai friend who runs a travel agency as well as those fish tanks spas with all the nibbling fish. I sat in one tank for half an hour and the fish completely cleaned off my old, dead skin and turned my feet as soft as a baby's bum. Prior to the fish nibbling my feet were rough and scaled with old skin around my toes.

In the little stream that flows down the mountain at Mt Erawan in Kanchanaburi there are those little fish that nibble on your skin

sure they are not piranhas Ian?

In the little stream that flows down the mountain at Mt Erawan in Kanchanaburi there are those little fish that nibble on your skin. If you stand still for a few moments they fasten themselves to your leg and start nibbling. I have a Thai friend who runs a travel agency as well as those fish tanks spas with all the nibbling fish. I sat in one tank for half an hour and the fish completely cleaned off my old, dead skin and turned my feet as soft as a baby's bum. Prior to the fish nibbling my feet were rough and scaled with old skin around my toes.

In the little stream that flows down the mountain at Mt Erawan in Kanchanaburi there are those little fish that nibble on your skin

sure they are not piranhas Ian?

Only on 1st April.

sure they are not piranhas Ian?

Naw, piranhas THESE little blighters..

When those little fish start nibbling on your feet and legs it feels strange, like tiny little electric shocks, but not unpleasant. Piranhas would DEFINITELY feel different.

I thought Piranhas were omnivores and scavengers and do not really devour live humans as Tarzan would make us believe?

I thought Piranhas were omnivores and scavengers and do not really devour live humans as Tarzan would make us believe?

They will eat anything as you said (omnivores) but like most fish they have their preferences. There is a small, red fruit that falls off trees in Thaiand and several species of fish, including the pacu (Thai piranha) eat them when available. They will also attack other small fish. If a human were to have a cut and be bleeding then the fish will focus on that and attack.

When I poster the original, I could not find the pic taken Patuchak...........

My feetz.......LOL

Last Christmas (i gave you my heart) i was in Scotland. I saw one of those places.

Yuck.

It was awful. The disgusting surroundings, the disgusting people that had their feet in there, and the disgusting state of their feet. And they were sitting in like a shop window.... The one that i could understand said they it was wonderful.

I felt for the fish.

Last Christmas (i gave you my heart) i was in Scotland. I saw one of those places.

Yuck.

It was awful. The disgusting surroundings, the disgusting people that had their feet in there, and the disgusting state of their feet. And they were sitting in like a shop window.... The one that i could understand said they it was wonderful.

I felt for the fish.

Pats, that was just for feet.

Imagine up to yer neck in with fishees............ OMG

SMDO....ha ha ha

Last Christmas (i gave you my heart) i was in Scotland. I saw one of those places.

Yuck.

It was awful. The disgusting surroundings, the disgusting people that had their feet in there, and the disgusting state of their feet. And they were sitting in like a shop window.... The one that i could understand said they it was wonderful.

I felt for the fish.

I hope the fish escaped your grasp......and YUCK indeed! How could you put your hands in that water?

Last Christmas (i gave you my heart) i was in Scotland. I saw one of those places.

Yuck.

It was awful. The disgusting surroundings, the disgusting people that had their feet in there, and the disgusting state of their feet. And they were sitting in like a shop window.... The one that i could understand said they it was wonderful.

I felt for the fish.

Pats, that was just for feet.

Imagine up to yer neck in with fishees............ OMG

SMDO....ha ha ha

Next time you're in Patong Pete, try it!

Fisho

I thought Piranhas were omnivores and scavengers and do not really devour live humans as Tarzan would make us believe?

I understand that if you are just calmly swimming around they will not attack, but if you panic, send out electronic signals and the pheromones or whatever that are produced when people panic, then the fish (pirhanas) will focus in on such signals and attack.

The lesson for today then - if you are swimming with piranhas, make sure you went to the loo and took your valium before entering the water.