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I'm talking real bites tho! about 3-5 times the size i could bite... goldfish got no chance.
 

If by Monkfish You mean Anglerfish or Breiflabb as they are known here (Lophius Piscatorius) then yeah... I recommended it in the fish skeletons thread. That and the Wolfies are the 2 coolest fish in the world, won't win any beauty contest but fascinating and tasty.
 
atomichaggis said:
I'm talking real bites tho! about 3-5 times the size i could bite... goldfish got no chance.
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Did the missing part grow back, or was the fish left with its tail missing?
Some fish sold as pets have had their tail surgically removed, to give them a 'heart-shaped' appearance. Of course I wouldn't buy one like that, knowing how they are produced.
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Some kinds of anglerfish (probably the 'handfish' type) can open and close their mouth so fast that they can eat one fish from a shoal without the others noticing. I think the mouth moves faster than the speed of sound, or something like that. I saw some small ones in a public aquarium, eating live prawns. The mouth movement was so fast that it was impossible to see that it had opened at all. One moment the fish was 'walking' towards the prawn, the next it had the prawn's antennae sticking out of its mouth. I also saw two of them walking along with their 'arms' around each other. It would have made a great photo, there were people in the way so I didn't get a chance.
 
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big chunks missing, sometimes fully healed over and somtimes fresh injuries... tails still on tho, this is on quite large fishes like haddock.
 
Then maybe when speared fish manage to rip off the spear, they stand a chance of surviving.
 
Apparently, in the 2 hours following an injury by a fishing hook, etc. a fish stands a 90% chance of being predated, even if the damage is slight.
This is thought to be due to its attention being focussed on the wound sustained and not on the world around it.
 
naiad said:
Then maybe when speared fish manage to rip off the spear, they stand a chance of surviving.
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They definately stand a chance but it all depends on the injury and type of fish... haddock are tough fish, resistant to shock from warm hands, very fleshy, good fighters. Cod are also durable and these two are the most common battle scarred fish I catch. the Scars and injuries are usually bites from larger fish or net/line injuries to fleshy parts so a spear would be surviveable in the same areas to these fish. Whiting on the other hand would no doubt die.
 

all fish are different. I foul hooked a goldsinny wrasse no less than 6 times over a several days with a treble hook and it was injured through the belly, back of the head and tail... it survived. All the major codfishes would reverse those figures... they always go back fighting fight after being caught on rod and line. other fish only need to be handled and they end up in a seagull.
 
That is true - some are much tougher than others. A gar (freshwater kind, looks similar to a northern pike) jumped out of its tank, and was stiff and dry when discovered. It survived and recovered fully.
 
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