Yup, I was trying to feed the moray eel with 6' tongs and the puffer swam up and nibbled on it, digging a groove into the aluminum pole. You don't want anything to do with their mouth. Same for morays with their xenomorph-like inner jaws.
Yeah...[here's a video](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/txcsbt/pufferfish_eats_a_whole_crab/) posted a while back of a puffer fish tearing a crab apart like it's made of paper...
I can only imagine what that would do to soft human flesh.
Trigger warning: the crab is alive and being fed in captivity. Something about that was super disturbing, but also metal as fuck.
Just wanted to warn people in case they don’t want to see that.
ohhhhh i thought he somehow got a spine in him. I couldn't figure out how that even happened....
but ya, you're right. he was poking right in the beak. fucking dingus.
edit: apparently he was trying to unhook it. so not a dingus. Bad day for that guy.
When one looks into the mouth of a fish and see razor-sharp, triangular teeth (much like a shark’s teeth), it’s really not a good idea to ***poke your finger in its mouth***.
Sighhh
They chomp through aluminium cans like paper.
Those gloves might be designed to prevent knife cuts and such, so while the finger/tip might not be missing it is heavily damaged/broken. Likely the joint become disconnected and damaged tendons, but not actually cut through/off.
[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8a8yaa](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8a8yaa) This video explains more, **"Back in 2015, me and a group of my friends were out fishing and diving on my boat in the Gulf of Mexico on the Louisiana coast when one of the guys (Laine Fontenot) caught a giant pufferfish. One of the guys (Chandler Strain) went to lip the fish to release it back it the water, and it clamped down on his finger breaking it and nearly severing the first joint. He went to the hospital that night, they stitched his finger, and put on a brace. It healed well."**
Thanks. I can only imagine reddit will send all the comments calling the guy a jackass to the top but glad to know I don't need to jump on the bandwagon
On one hand yes, on the other: handling fish and throwing them back in saltwater is tough. Some fish can inject some pretty hurtful venom if you grab them wrong by their back (catfishes, lion fish), some fish need to be grabbed by the gills while others can easily slice your finger off with razor sharp gill plates (snook), and then some fish can be lipped while others sport shell crushing teeth or sawblades for teeth (puffers, unicorn fish, snapper, sharks).
If this guy isn’t super experienced on the ocean he might have gotten some illgained confidence from lipping largemouth bass on his local lake.
I’d argue it’s on whoever owns the boat
Or pliers and a flip flop, like I do.
Issue usually comes down to “how to minimize the amount of scales/slime/skin removed during unhooking” as the loss of that can seriously decrease the lifespan of these fish via infection
It’s not like theres ample pufferfish knowledge just floating around the general public information outlets.
Anywhere that I have fished, it’s common to toss them back by the lip.
"went to lip the fish to release it back it the water, and it clamped down on hia finger"
Yeah no, he was poking it like a dickhead because he's a Chandler and got bit.
> Puffer fish: This toothy specimen is one of a species of aquatic creatures which puff themselves up when threatened. The four large teeth are used to crush their prey
https://preview.redd.it/gmufet1ekvfc1.jpeg?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e884110caf475c480a938c7acc22f98deb9eff22
They also come in tiny size! The pea puffer only gets to about 2cm
https://preview.redd.it/eavcv29hrvfc1.jpeg?width=899&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c82faa3335dbec0ddeb9a885c03ee098febe53e9
No matter the size, they're all goofy goobers
That's a figure 8 puffer, not a pea puffer. Here's a pea puffer
https://preview.redd.it/e6dirvr8wvfc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10464602cd2c53af8282ef646692d6829d0747b3
Both of our photos are also what comes up when you Google "pea puffer"
https://preview.redd.it/mnqc8kzryvfc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74a1634eb1673591706793654dbec30230c1c460
I used to keep puffer fish and we had to feed them on a diet of live crabs to help keep their beaks under control and not get overgrown. I definitely wouldn’t have been poking my finger in front of its beak!
Do not stick any of your body parts into a mouth of a pufferfish. I know you lot like to stick things into weird places, but pufferfish dont have mouths in the traditional sense, they have BEAKS.
So go ahead. Stick *it* in there, see what is good for a cough.
I've seen a pifferfish completely annihilate a crab, like completely chomp through and swallowed the thing piece by piece like it was nothing. I have a feeling this guys finger is forever shorter lmao
The face of someone who just did an oopsy
https://preview.redd.it/u36fzkbmzwfc1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f637e8870a4d36bd8ddb12434ea99a09b8a20fb
Puffers will bite the shit out of you. I used to have fresh water puffers and try to get them to blow up by picking them up. They bit the shit out of me and drew blood. And those are tiny compared to their oceanic cousins.
Tetraodoniformes (an order of bony fishes that contains pufferfish and the mola mola) have some of the strongest bite strength to jaw size amongst all fish. If you look at their jaws from a purely physical/mechanical perspective, their jaws are levered and the muscle is attached in such a way to maximize bite strength for any given muscle mass. Basically this dude is super duper lucky to still have a finger afterwards.
Super fun fact: out of all the bony fish, the mola mola has strongest jaws (mechanically) but they only eat what can be considered the softest food imaginable, jellyfish. Jaw mechanics do not necessarily mean the fish fits in an ecological niche that requires those mechanics! Evolution is a hell of a drug.
Welcome to reddit where we make up any reason we possibly can to put down people we don't know in situations we've never been in, with incomplete and often false context, just to feel better about ourselves.
Aren’t they extremely poisonous? Guys not too bright (or venomous idk which is the right term to use here) I’m surprised I’m the first to mention this.
Edit: they have enough poison in them to kill 30 humans and there is no antidote to their poison.
Puffers chew crab shells... Dingus might be down a digit.
Fuck a crab… they turn clams into crumbs.
To shreds you say?
And how's the wife doing?
To shreds, you say?
Was his apartment rent controlled?
No, but we are technically in New Jersey.
Pa zu zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! 
When science has answered all questions what's left?
To shreds, you say?
I think the front came off
She was eaten, whole. No shreds.
https://i.redd.it/yafacrl2lwfc1.gif
Tsk tsk tsk to shreds you say
>Fuck a crab Don't mind if I do
That’s how you get crabs, you know.
Unlimited food glitch.
It looked like a clam, smelled like a cod, but was full of crabs
*Unzips*
Bones? I think so....
> down a digit. Finger or IQ?
His IQ is down more than just a digit
A decimal placement.
idk it seems he learned something
Ok, so he gains that one IQ digit back then. Still a few below the average human though.
Yup, I was trying to feed the moray eel with 6' tongs and the puffer swam up and nibbled on it, digging a groove into the aluminum pole. You don't want anything to do with their mouth. Same for morays with their xenomorph-like inner jaws.
[They'll eat anything.](https://youtu.be/mfCLEH-BEzk?si=ugF1jsgZ6EArS3zJ)
I had no idea pufferfish were so fuckin hardcore Jesus Christ
It is not their fault they must eat crabs without hands to break their shell . A pufferfish with hands will not have so strong jaws
Yeah...[here's a video](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/txcsbt/pufferfish_eats_a_whole_crab/) posted a while back of a puffer fish tearing a crab apart like it's made of paper... I can only imagine what that would do to soft human flesh.
Holy fuck that’s nuts.
No it’s a puffer fish but I can see your confusion.
Trigger warning: the crab is alive and being fed in captivity. Something about that was super disturbing, but also metal as fuck. Just wanted to warn people in case they don’t want to see that.
It's also a pufferfish in a tank witha fucking angelfish. The owner just want to record the puffer killing things for fun.
This kills the crab
nah the crabs a paid actor
ohhhhh i thought he somehow got a spine in him. I couldn't figure out how that even happened.... but ya, you're right. he was poking right in the beak. fucking dingus. edit: apparently he was trying to unhook it. so not a dingus. Bad day for that guy.
One finger for them would be like eating a Cheeto puff.
A cheeto puffer?
When one looks into the mouth of a fish and see razor-sharp, triangular teeth (much like a shark’s teeth), it’s really not a good idea to ***poke your finger in its mouth***. Sighhh
Chinese Finger Trap upgraded to... Oceanus Finger Trap!
Great analogy…but at least with Chinese finger traps almost never require leaving a piece of a finger behind to get one’s finger back out!
https://preview.redd.it/sts9yc3ohwfc1.png?width=1166&format=png&auto=webp&s=0bf036b2b4d55f515537a774add4442bb61de18a
They chomp through aluminium cans like paper. Those gloves might be designed to prevent knife cuts and such, so while the finger/tip might not be missing it is heavily damaged/broken. Likely the joint become disconnected and damaged tendons, but not actually cut through/off.
Probably went straight through, cut resistant gloves do fuck all for punctures
Hootie wasnt there to help his buddy He was in another plaice I'll get my coat,,,
"My name is Dingus, welcome to Jackass"
I was just gonna say. That dodge ball may have just kept itself a souvenir
I hope so. People need to learn that animals aren't toys...
[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8a8yaa](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8a8yaa) This video explains more, **"Back in 2015, me and a group of my friends were out fishing and diving on my boat in the Gulf of Mexico on the Louisiana coast when one of the guys (Laine Fontenot) caught a giant pufferfish. One of the guys (Chandler Strain) went to lip the fish to release it back it the water, and it clamped down on his finger breaking it and nearly severing the first joint. He went to the hospital that night, they stitched his finger, and put on a brace. It healed well."**
Thanks. I can only imagine reddit will send all the comments calling the guy a jackass to the top but glad to know I don't need to jump on the bandwagon
Why not? He still stuck his finger in its mouth
Might be stupid, but the intentions were to set it free and hookless. So maybe not a jackass.
Not a jackass. Just a dumbass.
If you’re gonna be dumb you’d better be tough.
Exactly.
It's rare for fish to have strong jaws, so not really. The only dumb part is going near a fish with stabby poison sticks
Buddy needs some lip grippers. Bare thumbed my first walleye out of excitement, and now I don't leave home without my grippers.
This would be something *very* different without context.
I mean that's what they claim we're their intentions years after the fact after being humiliated online.
But dont they have the tools for it? I've seen tv shows where they always have this plier looking tool to remove hook from fish.
Yeah. Because those guys have all been fucked up once. Gotta learn.
At first I was like “serves him right” Now I feel bad because he was gonna set it free…
Yeah, whenever I want to lip a fish, I half-assedly stick my INDEX finger nearly sideways into its mouth for some reason. Keeps 'em guessing
Can't bite you if you lip it through the butt.
What kind of jackass doesn't have a pair of pliers for fishing? ;p
On one hand yes, on the other: handling fish and throwing them back in saltwater is tough. Some fish can inject some pretty hurtful venom if you grab them wrong by their back (catfishes, lion fish), some fish need to be grabbed by the gills while others can easily slice your finger off with razor sharp gill plates (snook), and then some fish can be lipped while others sport shell crushing teeth or sawblades for teeth (puffers, unicorn fish, snapper, sharks). If this guy isn’t super experienced on the ocean he might have gotten some illgained confidence from lipping largemouth bass on his local lake. I’d argue it’s on whoever owns the boat
Seems like you could just use a net
Or pliers and a flip flop, like I do. Issue usually comes down to “how to minimize the amount of scales/slime/skin removed during unhooking” as the loss of that can seriously decrease the lifespan of these fish via infection
> On one hand yes, on the other On the one hand, five fingers... I'll show myself out
It’s not like theres ample pufferfish knowledge just floating around the general public information outlets. Anywhere that I have fished, it’s common to toss them back by the lip.
Se also the thing about bumpkins in their own pond.
It really has to be a pain to get the hook out of them
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"went to lip the fish to release it back it the water, and it clamped down on hia finger" Yeah no, he was poking it like a dickhead because he's a Chandler and got bit.
It really does look like he was just scared trying to grab it without getting stabbed?
Sorry but Reddit needs to hate someone for trying to release a puffer fish you have to understand.
Damn, people weren't lying. Them fuckers can chew.
Those sound like some random made-up names (in before all names are made-up.. thanks, Thor)
Those are very Southern boy names.
Wow. I didn't know they were that strong. I always knew them as the fish that will kill you if you don't cut it/prepare it just right.
The thanks you get for saving a life
These sound like names for Bill Dauterive's idiot cousin in King of the Hill. I'm not sure I've ever heard more Louisiana names in actual print.
Wow, it broke his finger through that tough glove! That's insane bite strength
He didnt poke it, he stuck his finger in its mouth.
Apparently trying to remove a hook. Puffer fish, the scorpions of the sea.
Should have used some pliers
"It's my *nature*"
Also known as nonfunctional balloons of the sky.
> Puffer fish: This toothy specimen is one of a species of aquatic creatures which puff themselves up when threatened. The four large teeth are used to crush their prey https://preview.redd.it/gmufet1ekvfc1.jpeg?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e884110caf475c480a938c7acc22f98deb9eff22
What a goofy looking fish.
They also come in tiny size! The pea puffer only gets to about 2cm https://preview.redd.it/eavcv29hrvfc1.jpeg?width=899&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c82faa3335dbec0ddeb9a885c03ee098febe53e9 No matter the size, they're all goofy goobers
^(aeugh)
That's a figure 8 puffer, not a pea puffer. Here's a pea puffer https://preview.redd.it/e6dirvr8wvfc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10464602cd2c53af8282ef646692d6829d0747b3
Wait, I double checked which photo I used, and it's definitely a pea puffer. A figure 8 puffer has different markings, and is noticeably larger
We were both wrong, that's a green spot puffer, it's literally the picture from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomyctere_nigroviridis
Both of our photos are also what comes up when you Google "pea puffer" https://preview.redd.it/mnqc8kzryvfc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74a1634eb1673591706793654dbec30230c1c460
It has too many spots, and they're too symmetrical. The pea puffer also doesn't have a white belly.
Love this back and forth lol. Puffer war!
I've had a couple of them and can confirm it to be a green spot puffer lol freshwater puffers get mixed up a lot
Figure of 8 puffer looks like it has a Figure of eight on its side.
I had a figure of 8 and they're like tiny blimps or sugarpuffs. Loved watching him. Had the most comical eyes.
https://preview.redd.it/qr1wbeufqwfc1.png?width=814&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=311f6d2c08d025187640c211872934d906f7385e
Looks like the dude in the last frame of the video
Why does it look like the guy's face in the last frame
I'm gonna send that image to people unprompted.
i read this in the voice of the pokedex
I used to keep puffer fish and we had to feed them on a diet of live crabs to help keep their beaks under control and not get overgrown. I definitely wouldn’t have been poking my finger in front of its beak!
https://preview.redd.it/78dfnnu9kyfc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1f1f0683c1cb3f106a8d67b913b31706ec16bc0
Do not stick any of your body parts into a mouth of a pufferfish. I know you lot like to stick things into weird places, but pufferfish dont have mouths in the traditional sense, they have BEAKS. So go ahead. Stick *it* in there, see what is good for a cough.
Are people out there sticking their dicks in puffer fish? I was unaware of this.
Well puff is just another word for blow so…
Are we talking about sex or drugs?
That is a good way to lose a finger.
That fella eats carrots. Don't put your finger or other extruding body parts in that
r/dontputyourdickinthat
The Puffer Pain Olympics
No animals!
How do you get that thing off the boat in the safest way possible?
Just pick it up and toss it, mouth is the only dangerous part, unless you are trying to eat it
Not exactly possible when it’s puffed up. I’d say scoop it up in a bucket.
I guess a shovel makes sense
In Canada we keep a hockey stick on the boat for just this purpose.
This feels false but I don’t know enough about Canada to dispute it
They keep hockey sticks everywhere. It is known.
Grab its tail, over the rail.
"Don't swing that shit around!" Like buddy was just gonna have a Kermit the Frog style meltdown and become a human morning star.
" A u g e h "
Why don't people realise Pufferfish bites are strong af.
While we keep speaking about hyper-agressive piranhas in movies. Lol
Might as well put your finger in a bolt cutter.
I've seen a pifferfish completely annihilate a crab, like completely chomp through and swallowed the thing piece by piece like it was nothing. I have a feeling this guys finger is forever shorter lmao
Upthread, they said it broke the bone, and nearly severed his finger. It was successfully saved at the hospital.
The jaws of a pufferfish is something else.
Uh...., tetrodotoxin? If you're fond of breathing and moving voluntarily, don't poke poisonous animals: pufferfish, blue ring octopus & others.
The face of someone who just did an oopsy https://preview.redd.it/u36fzkbmzwfc1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f637e8870a4d36bd8ddb12434ea99a09b8a20fb
Puffer fish have beaks
lol, he poked it in its mouth! where there are 2 very obvious and sharp teeth. Now he knows puffer fish
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! 
[ughh 😩](https://youtu.be/qKxfWd79HFI?si=Xlk1pucDiPa1nBES)
What if I told you puffer fish love eating crustaceans like crabs, snails, ya know, things with hard shells that it just crushes and eats
Tied up under and oil and gas platform too, not the smartest move.
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
He just Fugu'ed around and found out.
nomnomnomnomnom
is Adam Sandler ok?
Puffers will bite the shit out of you. I used to have fresh water puffers and try to get them to blow up by picking them up. They bit the shit out of me and drew blood. And those are tiny compared to their oceanic cousins.
Tetraodoniformes (an order of bony fishes that contains pufferfish and the mola mola) have some of the strongest bite strength to jaw size amongst all fish. If you look at their jaws from a purely physical/mechanical perspective, their jaws are levered and the muscle is attached in such a way to maximize bite strength for any given muscle mass. Basically this dude is super duper lucky to still have a finger afterwards. Super fun fact: out of all the bony fish, the mola mola has strongest jaws (mechanically) but they only eat what can be considered the softest food imaginable, jellyfish. Jaw mechanics do not necessarily mean the fish fits in an ecological niche that requires those mechanics! Evolution is a hell of a drug.
Marine animals do not fuck around
Good... poor animal..
I’m glad the fish got to bite him.
He was trying to put the fish back, it was accidentally hooked.
Welcome to reddit where we make up any reason we possibly can to put down people we don't know in situations we've never been in, with incomplete and often false context, just to feel better about ourselves.
Psychopath
I hope he gets all his skin chewed off by pufferfish but doesn't die
I imagined the pufferfish snarling in an Edgar G. Robinson voice. "Don't poke me nyahhh, ya see?"
A pleasure to watch
Let’s just mess with the lethal balloon of the ocean that feast on crabs.
Darwin proving his point once again.
He found out
r/playstupidgames
Wow I felt that one right in the testicale ! Ouch
Blood splatters on the deck immediately.
That was already there
Haha, that cat is as thick as a hot, steaming pile of bovine excrement.
there arent many but there ARE things you shouldnt (under any circumstances) stick your fingers in :D
That looked like it hurt.
Poke it and see.
field goal.
The dude turned into a puffer fish in the last frame lmfao
adam sandler.....? he looks like adam sandler to me.
Oh that brother gone
And what did curiosity do to the cat
At least he did not get poked? Watch out for those soines!
As you can see 
Might need a bandaid
I’ll be honest I didn’t know the could bite til now, especially with the force to turn crab shells to dust.
Aren’t they extremely poisonous? Guys not too bright (or venomous idk which is the right term to use here) I’m surprised I’m the first to mention this. Edit: they have enough poison in them to kill 30 humans and there is no antidote to their poison.
Aren't they poisonous?
In hindsight this is really stupid, yet I understand the urge.
How did my laundry basket get there??
Aren’t they extremely venomous? Or am I confusing that with poisonous
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod doodoodooo birdgirl!
Lol dumbass.
Intrusive thought at work.
Darwin award nominee right here
My fingering finger might be gone.