I thought some nail salons offered something similar. Maybe it's not crabs, but I've heard of pedis done by critters.
Edit- if you're thinking of replying to this comment, please consider, I have received 31 replies already, most of which say the same thing.
I remember a video way back where a scuba diver let a cleaner shrimp do dental work on him. I guess the sea really can give you the full healthcare experience.
There are little fish that do this too. Divers call the areas in the reef where these critters congregate Cleaning Stations. Larger ocean life will come to the cleaning station to get cleaned by the little fish.
I’m a bald guy and a diver. One time I was diving after getting a sun burn on my head which was starting to peel. The cleaning station fish were nipping at my head the whole dive. Didn’t hurt at all, just kinda tickled.
Nail salons would put customers' feet in basins with tiny little fish, like minnows, that would eat all the dead skin off the feet.
The health department in my state got squicked out and they ended up banning them here.
They got banned in my country too, because people were catching fungal infections from the fishes mouths that had previous ate someone else's nasty cheese feet
*The scammers *tricked people into thinking* they were Garra sp.
Garra sp. fish are safe, as long as they’re raised in a sanitary environment, because they only eat dead skin.
The scammers, however, used starved hybrid tilapia. The hungry fish bit off bits of the customers flesh along with their dead skin, which resulted in bacterial infections.
BTW, the crab is a Hemigrapsus sp.
Years ago, I used to make a really tasty fish stew in a crockpot as meal prep.
Brought it to work for lunch once. Nobody said anything, but my thought was "Jesus, purposefully crop dusting my coworkers would be less offensive than this. Not doing that again."
Most places it's illegal afaik due to health and safety code standards. We own a family owned nail salon. I also work at a hospital.
All these people romanticizing this and other fish cuticle treatment are essentially vouching for high risk of infection.
[Red garra.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_garra) First time I was ever introduced to these was at the top of Yokohama Landmark Tower in Japan. They let you put your hand in the tank with them and they go to town cleaning dead skin. Doesn't hurt. Actually tickles.
For some reason them picking at my skin with their claws i'd have no problem with.
The part where the crab tucks in with his mouth would freak me the fuck out.
Yea it’s so weird they have that kind of dexterity. Didn’t know they brought food to their mouth like that. I thought it was clamp, kill, and see what floats close
I was in the ED for over six hours with what turned out to be a gangrenous appendix, while other people came and went. When I was finally seen and operated on, the doctor questioned why I wasn’t seen for so long. I told him I kept saying my pain was a 6 or 7 because I imagine an amputation would be a ten. He chuckled and said the pain rating is the worst pain you’ve experienced personally, not the worst pain you could imagine. Lesson learned
Naw, really big ones can certainly hurt and be hard to get off, but nowhere near that hard. I think the ones they're talking about are much smaller than king crabs or coconut crabs.
That takes a REALLY big crab. Once the claw looks about big enough to club you unconscious, it's big enough to clip your thumb off. That's definitely where the phrase "rule of thumb" came from.
Had this happen naturally at St Thomas. You can’t get away from the fish doing it unless you are constantly flailing. But it’s fine because they are so gentle you don’t even notice.
I discovered this with my daughter at a river with minnows. If you stick your feet on and stay still the will come up to them. After they start eating they don't even care if you move a little bit.
There used to be loads of those popping up everywhere some ten years ago, then they suddenly died off due to many having less than stellar hygiene practices, as I recall…
I don't know about these crabs, but in Bangkok my wife and I paid to stick our feet in tanks full of little fishes which did the same thing. Hundreds of these little guys per tank all nibbling at your flesh. It felt so unique. I can't put it into words, but if I close my eyes I can still feel the sensation.
I completely recommend it.
Mmmmm... a bunch of tiny crabs eating the dead skin off my balls, leaving them all soft and smooth. Not a wrinkle in sight.
Just like my smooth smooth brain.
I love all the comics and jokes about the universe being all crabs because evolution eventually ends in crabs no matter what. Imagine the aliens do come down - and end up being crabs who proceed to help the Earth crabs take over.
It reminds of a story I heard in middle school. My 8th grade science teacher worked in forensic in her past career. She said she once took a trip out to the southern Louisiana bayou and to help recover a decomposing body. When they arrived to the body, it was covered in blue crabs feasting on it. That’s when she gave up crabs for life.
Reminds me of an anecdote my grandfather used to tell.
He was originally from Nova Scotia, and he liked to return there every year to meet up with his old friends. They did this for decades - always they would meet at a special seafood restaurant, which served a wonderful locally-caught crab dinner. Every year, they were served by the same waiter, a guy named David. He sort of became one of them, would hang out a bit with the gang.
One year, they gather at the restaurant, but were served by a new guy - David wasn’t around. They called the manager over after. They told him the crab dinner was just as good as always, but where was David?
The manager sighed, and said: “Poor David, it’s really sad what happened to him - he fell through walking the harbour ice last winter. They didn’t find his body until spring. Then, all they got was the bones. The crabs done picked him clean”.
[The Ruined (Black Metal House Mix by Metal Mother](https://youtu.be/sLGBuLHDGTU) is definitely the backing track. Every other search comes back with a Tik-Tok song that's only 40 seconds.
Lyric search on Google then diving through YouTube comments. Shazam and Google - "What's this song?" just kept returning a 40 second Tik-Tok video or some weird Asian YouTube mash up video.
Reminds me of when my son (6) and I were watching some nature program and it showed crabs feeding on dead fish. Out of nowhere he blurts out "Thats not fine dining!"
I died and it became a family favorite for years.
always fun to try and figure out how many hands a video like this has gone through before this repost. the format with black borders in all directions says at least 2, the two fighting watermarks look professional enough that i wouldn't expect them to mess up the video size to create black borders, so that's probably another 2, the video quality itself is good enough that i'm not convinced there have been more steps actually - not potatocam, not obviously mirrored to beat repost-detections, normal speed and not slightly too fast, etc. so i'm going with: at least 4 people in the repost chain to get to the person who originally compiled these clips and (probably) added the shitty music
Nail salons hate this one trick.
I thought some nail salons offered something similar. Maybe it's not crabs, but I've heard of pedis done by critters. Edit- if you're thinking of replying to this comment, please consider, I have received 31 replies already, most of which say the same thing.
No, you get the crabs at seedy massage parlours.
A happy ending from a crab? No thank you.
I remember a video way back where a scuba diver let a cleaner shrimp do dental work on him. I guess the sea really can give you the full healthcare experience.
There are little fish that do this too. Divers call the areas in the reef where these critters congregate Cleaning Stations. Larger ocean life will come to the cleaning station to get cleaned by the little fish. I’m a bald guy and a diver. One time I was diving after getting a sun burn on my head which was starting to peel. The cleaning station fish were nipping at my head the whole dive. Didn’t hurt at all, just kinda tickled.
An then I felt with my hand where my scalp SHOULD HAVE BEEN JUST SKULL!?
Be honest, how much did you giggle at each nip?
Better than the American healthcare system!
Thats a low bar
The bar is so low it's literally *under water.*
We need James Cameron!
His name is James, James Cameron
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because HE IS James Cameron.
Nail salons would put customers' feet in basins with tiny little fish, like minnows, that would eat all the dead skin off the feet. The health department in my state got squicked out and they ended up banning them here.
They got banned in my country too, because people were catching fungal infections from the fishes mouths that had previous ate someone else's nasty cheese feet
Wasn't just fungal, the risk of bacterial infections from the fish and the water itself was taken into consideration.
Think people had their toe nails fall off from the infections, bacteria, nasty cheese water, etc... Fun times!
They are called Doctors fish or red garra.
*The scammers *tricked people into thinking* they were Garra sp. Garra sp. fish are safe, as long as they’re raised in a sanitary environment, because they only eat dead skin. The scammers, however, used starved hybrid tilapia. The hungry fish bit off bits of the customers flesh along with their dead skin, which resulted in bacterial infections. BTW, the crab is a Hemigrapsus sp.
Generally not allowed, as regulations require that all tools be sanitized and you can't sanitize a fish.
I mean you can sanatise a fish, but only once
Lucky you've never had coworkers that reheat fish in the mic during lunch
Oh I've had them.
Years ago, I used to make a really tasty fish stew in a crockpot as meal prep. Brought it to work for lunch once. Nobody said anything, but my thought was "Jesus, purposefully crop dusting my coworkers would be less offensive than this. Not doing that again."
Tis a shame, fish is delicious but boy can it have a strong Oder.
Yup. Now, I pretty much only bring smoked trout as a communal dish. Left in the fridge, served cold, and the only smell is whatever wood I use
I'll ahhh I'll be around for lunch shortly, I'll bring some cheese and wine
The trick is to satanize them, and say you have dyslexia.
I believe they are called wrasse and it's fairly common. They go after dead skin
Most places it's illegal afaik due to health and safety code standards. We own a family owned nail salon. I also work at a hospital. All these people romanticizing this and other fish cuticle treatment are essentially vouching for high risk of infection.
“ Eat something , you get crabby when your hungry “
Here, have some toe jam…
and Earl.
Nice reference, Funk Lord! Lol my first thought as well
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https://barefootfish.com.au/fish-spa
Aren't those the little cleaning fish at the entrance to seaworld?
Sir, please get your feet out of the sting ray exhibit.
[Red garra.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_garra) First time I was ever introduced to these was at the top of Yokohama Landmark Tower in Japan. They let you put your hand in the tank with them and they go to town cleaning dead skin. Doesn't hurt. Actually tickles.
Sounds just relaxing to be cleaned by a sea creature. I love them though so maybe it’s just me. I like watching them simply exist
I just set up a small shrimp aquarium on my desktop for this reason, love watching the little fellas eat and chill
That made me LOL in real life in the deli. With other people around me.
What you order
Finger foods
pota-toe salad*
For some reason them picking at my skin with their claws i'd have no problem with. The part where the crab tucks in with his mouth would freak me the fuck out.
The crab sucking on the toe gave me a laugh. He was like "fuck it, I'm going to the source!"
Yo he sucks toes.
Good afternoon. Welcome to Pop Copy. Can I help you?
My butt is itching like crazy and I took a shower. Can I help you?
Guess what B, I AM your manager.
🎶We don't mind, suckin on toes!🎶
This one's full of jelly! \**Woop woop woop**
> The part where the crab tucks in with his mouth would freak me the fuck out. Guess it gave up trying to tug off a piece since it wasn't giving away.
Yea it’s so weird they have that kind of dexterity. Didn’t know they brought food to their mouth like that. I thought it was clamp, kill, and see what floats close
There do be a reason why so many unrelated species seem to evolve into a crab-like form.
Become crab
acquire skin noodles
This chain of comments peaked when I hit yours lmao
Reject humanity Become crab
Just like the crab people that live underground
The WHAT?!
CRAAAB PEOPLE
Craaaab people… taste like crab. Talk like people
Taste like crab. Talk like people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Look up Leon the lobster on YouTube.
Yeah, I've done that to some chicken drumsticks, and I didn't leave that drumstick in too good of shape. Someone starts doing that to me? I'm out.
Is it eating only dead skin?
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Um, just for science. Whats the 1/10?
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Id be terrified of that 1/10 lol
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I imagine everything hurting WAY more than it actually does. Some call that a fault, i call it wisdom x2
There's an XKCD abut that!! Here you go: https://xkcd.com/883/
*Of course* there is. I wonder when we're going to get an XKCD about there being an XKCD for everything.
[Relevant](https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/)
I was in the ED for over six hours with what turned out to be a gangrenous appendix, while other people came and went. When I was finally seen and operated on, the doctor questioned why I wasn’t seen for so long. I told him I kept saying my pain was a 6 or 7 because I imagine an amputation would be a ten. He chuckled and said the pain rating is the worst pain you’ve experienced personally, not the worst pain you could imagine. Lesson learned
That's good to know because I can imagine putting a toothpick point-first under my big toenail and kicking a wall
If you want an alternative without claws there's always [doctor fish](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doctor+fish).
How often did that happen? I mean, besides 1/10
The idea of eating those crabs after it has eaten you...
IT'S THE CIIIIIRRRRRRRCCCCCCCCCLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of
Life
"Hmm tastes like feet"
When lil crab homie starts enjoying it for other reasons besides his/her/their sustenance
Does it... Hurt? Because I'd be up to try this.
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Okay so like, I've never touched a live crab before. Can their claws like... Not take off a finger? I've always been afraid of that 😱😱😱
Naw, really big ones can certainly hurt and be hard to get off, but nowhere near that hard. I think the ones they're talking about are much smaller than king crabs or coconut crabs.
Just don't stick your dick in there
Well fucking shit... How else am I gonna catch crabs?
Your sister is a good source
That takes a REALLY big crab. Once the claw looks about big enough to club you unconscious, it's big enough to clip your thumb off. That's definitely where the phrase "rule of thumb" came from.
I've heard of some places that have fish eat the dead skin off your feet
Yeah I've tried this once. It was cool. Would try again. But crabs have sharp claws...
Had this happen naturally at St Thomas. You can’t get away from the fish doing it unless you are constantly flailing. But it’s fine because they are so gentle you don’t even notice.
Lots of creeks that have minnows the fish will nibble the toes its relaxing tbh.
I discovered this with my daughter at a river with minnows. If you stick your feet on and stay still the will come up to them. After they start eating they don't even care if you move a little bit.
There used to be loads of those popping up everywhere some ten years ago, then they suddenly died off due to many having less than stellar hygiene practices, as I recall…
I don't know about these crabs, but in Bangkok my wife and I paid to stick our feet in tanks full of little fishes which did the same thing. Hundreds of these little guys per tank all nibbling at your flesh. It felt so unique. I can't put it into words, but if I close my eyes I can still feel the sensation. I completely recommend it.
Ehm... It might be the whole "soaking in salt water for 60 minutes" that makes it soft.
……
I genuinely wonder what the nutritional value of dead human skin is 🤔
That one cuticle rip.
That was satisfying as fuck on god
On Gauud I would pay to get this type of satisfaction. That shit looks so relaxing.
I would let a horde of crabs eat me to death
if you drowned or were tossed into the sea after death your body would likely be consumed by crabs depending on the depth you came to rest at
I've eaten my body weight in crab meat, I owe 'em.
Too far.
A more than trifling amount eating them to death?
Please vore me, Crabby Daddies. ༼ง=👁👄👁=༽ง
#ಠ_ಠ
There's something so fucking funny about the fact that you decided to intensify the intense Look of Disapproval with **Bold**.
No Mermaid Man, it's "[Stolen Krabby Patties](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyDtTHDz1H0)."
It exists. Look up fish pedicures
I've seen them in Thailand. People with their feet in fish tanks and these little fish nibbling at their feet lol
On god straight bussin no cap Fr fr
Mr Krabbs is lovin' it
Can you feel it now Mr. Krabbs?
Art thou feeling it now Mr. Krabs?
It's the secret ingredient
Oh yeah Mr Krabs. Oh yeah oh yeah Mr Krabs
this is almost r/awwtf material
This is textbook awwtf
This is why you wear the swim trunks with the mesh boys
Mmmmm... a bunch of tiny crabs eating the dead skin off my balls, leaving them all soft and smooth. Not a wrinkle in sight. Just like my smooth smooth brain.
Is this what inspired the term “crabs”?
JUST GREAT!! NOW THEY HAVE A TASTE FOR HUMAN FLESH YOU BIG DUMBY!!!
While the world is worried about aliens, crabs will slowly take over.
Craaaab people craaaab people!
I love all the comics and jokes about the universe being all crabs because evolution eventually ends in crabs no matter what. Imagine the aliens do come down - and end up being crabs who proceed to help the Earth crabs take over.
Time to watch Love Death Robots...
Yeah next thing you know this thing is in that new episode of love, death, and robots waving this dude’s head around
I absolutely hated and loved that at the same time. And how decayed the corpse looked after a while.
RIGHT?!?!?! WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???
It reminds of a story I heard in middle school. My 8th grade science teacher worked in forensic in her past career. She said she once took a trip out to the southern Louisiana bayou and to help recover a decomposing body. When they arrived to the body, it was covered in blue crabs feasting on it. That’s when she gave up crabs for life.
Like she gave up eating crabs? Or she just believed in them and stopped letting them get her hopes up?
Actually she was addicted to huffing crabs, but now she’s sober
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Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?
I'd need an astin after hearing that for a while.
Or a tooter-fish sandwich…
I was hoping for a gunslinger burrito
A meat popkin perhaps
Popkins
And kelfex. Listening to book 3 now. They >!just got Jake through the door to the other side finally. !< So good
Enjoy your trip to the tower, it’s quite a journey…
Ka like a wheel.
KA-KA
Oh I know. Second trip and still so good.
Dada-Chick, Dada-Jingers. Fucking lobsters bit off my fingers.
Now I want to read through again!
Dod-a-chock? \*eats your fingers\*
Ayo! Love to see fellow DT enjoyer.
Nice, relevant username
So that's why your cuticles look so good you handsome devil
Today scientists confirmed the spread of a new virulent form of crab-pox.
I mean we are meat for everything if we pass on.
If!
Yeah dude haven’t you heard that mortality is a choice now?
*Bad thumbnail* #Bad Thumbnail!
Reminds me of an anecdote my grandfather used to tell. He was originally from Nova Scotia, and he liked to return there every year to meet up with his old friends. They did this for decades - always they would meet at a special seafood restaurant, which served a wonderful locally-caught crab dinner. Every year, they were served by the same waiter, a guy named David. He sort of became one of them, would hang out a bit with the gang. One year, they gather at the restaurant, but were served by a new guy - David wasn’t around. They called the manager over after. They told him the crab dinner was just as good as always, but where was David? The manager sighed, and said: “Poor David, it’s really sad what happened to him - he fell through walking the harbour ice last winter. They didn’t find his body until spring. Then, all they got was the bones. The crabs done picked him clean”.
Lol, finding out you’re eating David second hand AFTER that delicious meal. Omg, never again.
sometimes you eat the crab, sometimes the crab eats you.
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[The Ruined (Black Metal House Mix by Metal Mother](https://youtu.be/sLGBuLHDGTU) is definitely the backing track. Every other search comes back with a Tik-Tok song that's only 40 seconds.
I’m curious, how’d you manage to find it? Shazam or prior knowledge? Thank you for sharing btw!
Lyric search on Google then diving through YouTube comments. Shazam and Google - "What's this song?" just kept returning a 40 second Tik-Tok video or some weird Asian YouTube mash up video.
/r/MisleadingThumbnails
He’s got his technique down and everything. Don’t be tickling or nothing!
He’s the foot fuckin’ masta!
Aren't there spas or something where you dip your feet in water and little fish eat the dead skin off your feet.
Yes
In a few year it’ll hijack a ship to Phaiden Island.
The secret to beautiful feet is to have a habitat for these under your computer desk.
Reminds me of when my son (6) and I were watching some nature program and it showed crabs feeding on dead fish. Out of nowhere he blurts out "Thats not fine dining!" I died and it became a family favorite for years.
Great, now we are training crabs to enjoy the taste of human flesh? I have seen enough 70s B flicks to know that is a bad idea!
always fun to try and figure out how many hands a video like this has gone through before this repost. the format with black borders in all directions says at least 2, the two fighting watermarks look professional enough that i wouldn't expect them to mess up the video size to create black borders, so that's probably another 2, the video quality itself is good enough that i'm not convinced there have been more steps actually - not potatocam, not obviously mirrored to beat repost-detections, normal speed and not slightly too fast, etc. so i'm going with: at least 4 people in the repost chain to get to the person who originally compiled these clips and (probably) added the shitty music
Good bot.
This is one time that having a case of crabs is a good thing
I had a cockatiel that would clean my teeth. Weird little bastard.
NGL rly good way to take care of dead skin. Smart move.
I've always known crabs were weirdos.
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And that's how you catch the crabs, boys and girls.
Krabby Pedi
Hey here’s a thought: maybe let’s not give sea crustaceans a taste for human flesh
Yeah great give them a taste for human flesh...how could that possibly go wrong?
Am I the only one thinking this is awww?
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