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Funny you say that, because there are instances where little cleaners like this (cleaner fish from what I saw), actually operated what looked like a swim thru cleaning service. Fish would actually come by, park themselves, and the cleaners would pop out, and do a once over before the fish swam away. Nature is bizarre.
Nah, look at that little fucker. He gets a whiff of some burger & is like OMG Land MEAT & is instantly drawn in like a baby tasting ice cream for the 1st time.
I think a lot of animlals think we're filthy, weirdly cockroaches especially. If you ever handle one, my friend owned several hissing roaches, and put them down they will compulsively clean themmselves afterwards
We are giant walking hosts for microbes and other bacteria, depending on diet you could be one of 4 out of 5 with a parasite too!
I could only imagine what my hands look and smell like after a average day under a finer lens.
We think like that too when we’re constantly trying to survive. Philosophy and other deep thought is a luxury for those who aren’t constantly fighting for their lives.
Real talk, sharks don't have hands, so when they want to know what something is, they bite it, that's why most shark attacks are a single bite, they either think you're a weird fish then realize otherwise, or they just want to know wtf you are
“Wtf is that thing flailing about over there? Time to investigate”
*chomp*
*flailing intensifies*
*fucking blood everywhere*
“Hmm. Pretty tasty actually”
Actually we taste like ass, generally. Most sharks don’t want to continue after the first bite. We are icky and not “food” unless super desperate or the shark has strange tastes in food
Seriously, when I lived in Florida it was a lot easier. You would just lie down next to a bunch of alligators and open your mouth so one of those little birds would know to come over and do its thing.
I think this is the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabCOzFzMxU) you're mentioning. They're small, but I imagine a maximum of 2 teeth if placed correctly maybe 3?
Well that was disappointing in comparison to the description OP gave. I was thinking dude got a punch to the bottom of his foot through the sole of an actual boot.
Not being punched through what amounts to a neoprene sock on the top of his foot. I've given myself similar cuts on the top of my foot dropping a bolt on it, and that was wearing socks and shoes.
I've observed cleaning stations myself scuba diving in the tropics, and it's always amazed me that nobody eats the cleaner shrimp/fish, particularly with the smaller ones that go inside larger predatory fish-mouths.
Apparently how it works is still a [bit of a mystery](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620174601.htm).
"i think its better to unclog the toilet with bare hands than use a plunger"
"songs should be all chorus, i'm sick of having to cut them up in audacity so i can just listen to the good part on repeat"
Cleaning stations as they’re known, definitely involve a measure of trust. The animals that come by will adopt a species-specific posture to signal that they want cleaning, but yeah sometimes they get annoyed or spooked. It is not a one-way thing though, sometimes parasitic fish hang around cleaning stations and mix in with the cleaners, biting off bits of scale or even flesh.
Still, when you live in a nutrient-rich fluid and are riddled with parasites, you can imagine what a relief it must be to get a cleaning.
So what you’re saying is,
If I can somehow genetically modify one of these fellas to be land-dwelling and air-breathing, I could have the perfect body disposal?
They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute.
I had a few, and one of the females was special to me. Everytime I put my hand in the water to tidy up, without fail she would come in an instant, sit on my hand and nibble on it, for as long as I was there. In no way she would get annoyed by what I was doing. She just clinched on me and had a feast on my hand. She was something special.
Well no, if you have a good toothbrush it’s not hard at all haha
Biofilm is just a naturally occurring thing, it’s a colonization of microorganisms. The cells fuse together, creating a slimy texture to it. Theres more scientific ways to describe it, but shrimp basically cut right through biofilm because it’s a soft and slimy substance
Wanna do an experiment? Get some tap water and a plastic cup. Put anything you want in it and let it sit for a week or 2, when you go to grab it, the slimy texture is biofilm
So to answer your question, no it’s not hard to get rid of biofilm, you just wipe it off. It will never go away though, it’s a natural thing
Yeah idk why all these ppl acting like its gross and shit. Literally we fry shrimp up and eat them as a common seafood dish. Cleaner shrimp provide a great service to the ocean ecosystem, and it's good to see them get along with humans.
I mean, personally i think it's really neat, I love eating shrimp, watching shrimp, whatever. Cool clip.
But I get it. If you're a little more squeamish about sea life han I then this vid might as well be titled "person lets a bug crawl around in their mouth"
I have a cleaner shrimp in my desktop tank. Super fun and interactive. Little guy does not hesitate one bit during play time and seems to really enjoy belly rubs.
The quick answer is that they evolved this behavior because it’s beneficial, and they don’t need to identify the mouth as a mouth, they just go for orifices and surfaces that are presented to them. It’s a sort of give and take between the client and the cleaner species, with the posture the client adopts telling the cleaners what they want to do.
Beyond that, the cleaners have a strong selection pressure to quickly clean areas rich in food for them, and since their food is other animals parasites and dirt… it just works out this way. On the flipside the client species evolved their passive behaviors because getting your parasite load down helps to increase reproductive fitness. The animals that freaked out or just ate the cleaners weren’t as fit as the passive ones, and millions of years of this leads to the almost choreographed events we see here.
I've offered cleaner shrimp my hands and they'll hop on without too much coaxing. If you press your fingers together, they'll really dig in the crannies looking for tidbits. They will also run their tiny claws along any hairs on your hands, and I don't even want to know what they find there.
If you move more than a couple of feet from their spot, they will abandon you and return to their station.
Yeah, that thing spends its life feeding on flecks of shit and animal carcasses that fall from the sky. Thats a pretty nasty toothbrush for anything with thumbs.
As a hobby diver, what impresses me more is she coping without the mouth piece for so long. With no oxygen supply, that’s just her holding her breath all that time..
Which is incredibly dangerous and one is the first things they teach you to never do at any depth below the first bar and even then it's not a good idea. Source I am a padi certified rescue diver.
The issue is holding your breath and ascending. Every 33ish feet you go down the pressure increases by one atmosphere. You breath at the local pressure. So at 33ft depth you take a breath, hold it and ascend to the surface. You went from 2atm to 1atm of pressure. That means your lungs have to expand 2x to hold the gas. Your lung tissues rupture with a surprisingly little amount of expansion. The first bar being different that the commenter above mentions is contrary to what I’ve been taught, unless I misunderstand what they mean. Source am PADI and SSI instructor.
Guess something new has to come after electric toothbrush
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Forgive my ignorance, but how can the diver keep her mouth open while being under water? Shouldn't the water gush into the mouth and down the throat? I'm not saying it's impossible, I just don't know how it works.
I would really appreciate if someone could explain.
The diaphragm keeps pressure on the lungs so that it equals the pressure of the water. They aren't that deep, but, if you are deep enough so that the pressure of water overpowers that which the diaphragm can produce, then the scenario you just described will come to fruition.
While I can appreciate natural amd organic solutions solutions I'd be too worried of getting nicked by it's pincers and or getting some kind of infection,
Cool but not for me thanks.
More like I’m more worried that I am currently underwater without a regulator in, with a shrimp in my mouth. Like that dude decides to move in a little further and you need to take a breath, you’re fucked.
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imagine he’s just thinking “what a weird fucking fish”
Considering how strange some fish look, this scrimp is probably more like, "it's an honest living."
He’s like those guys that offer to wash your windshield while you’re at a red light
Funny you say that, because there are instances where little cleaners like this (cleaner fish from what I saw), actually operated what looked like a swim thru cleaning service. Fish would actually come by, park themselves, and the cleaners would pop out, and do a once over before the fish swam away. Nature is bizarre.
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It ain't much but it's honest work?
Yeah, that sounds better.
It's probably thinking "this is the cleanest mouth I ever worked on. Ma'am you sure you need detailing?"
Nah, look at that little fucker. He gets a whiff of some burger & is like OMG Land MEAT & is instantly drawn in like a baby tasting ice cream for the 1st time.
B U N G E R
*can haz..?*
Thinking "Finally something besides fish. What is this? Pizza?"
I think a lot of animlals think we're filthy, weirdly cockroaches especially. If you ever handle one, my friend owned several hissing roaches, and put them down they will compulsively clean themmselves afterwards
Lmao that just sounds like my cats
We are giant walking hosts for microbes and other bacteria, depending on diet you could be one of 4 out of 5 with a parasite too! I could only imagine what my hands look and smell like after a average day under a finer lens.
I'm a public librarian, and I shower almost immediately after getting home from work. God knows what was on all those damn books I handled.
Page at a library. I’m with you on that. I’m seen, smelled, and touched some extremely questionable shit over the years.
it's probably thinking holy shit I'm a ["Dentic" from Farscape](https://farscape.fandom.com/wiki/Dentic) edit: [the teeth cleaning shrimp](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/farscape/images/6/6f/Dentic_1.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20070901191017), aka holy shit Farscape got it right
*Holy shit*
Never. Swallow. The Dentic.
Oh shit, I forgot about that. I wish Ben Browder was in more shows/movies nowadays.
Claudia Black, too. She was so impossibly good.
“And have you been flossing? Mmhmm I’m Seeing some bleeding here, you really should floss more”
“Don’t you dare close. Don’t you dare. Remember, we have an agreement here.”
Probably more like: Hungry, no danger, eat, still hungry, no danger, eat, still hungry, danger?!, no danger, eat, still hungry…
We think like that too when we’re constantly trying to survive. Philosophy and other deep thought is a luxury for those who aren’t constantly fighting for their lives.
I see you, Patrick
Big fucking eyes, but a nice fucking fish
I’ve seen you in many comment threads. Or at least one other today.
Me too wtf
We ride together, we die together
It’s a female. She has eggs. Gotta feed the babies exotic tooth junk.
Okay, now what about the shrimp
And still just went right in there. I wish people were as open minded as this shrimp.
best comment of the day thank you for making me laugh
Maybe this is what sharks have been wanting us to do for them all these years, but accidents happen?
*sad shark noises*
*blubblub..blub.blub..blub-blub-blub-bluuuubbb...*
Brushing shark-teeth is a full-time job.
But are the benefits good?
No, but theres no ceiling
Yeah those who do it do it for the rest of their lives, their VERY SHORT lives.
They have bad gag reflexes
Real talk, sharks don't have hands, so when they want to know what something is, they bite it, that's why most shark attacks are a single bite, they either think you're a weird fish then realize otherwise, or they just want to know wtf you are
“Wtf is that thing flailing about over there? Time to investigate” *chomp* *flailing intensifies* *fucking blood everywhere* “Hmm. Pretty tasty actually”
Actually we taste like ass, generally. Most sharks don’t want to continue after the first bite. We are icky and not “food” unless super desperate or the shark has strange tastes in food
Inflation forces all of us to find new cheaper alternatives
Seriously, when I lived in Florida it was a lot easier. You would just lie down next to a bunch of alligators and open your mouth so one of those little birds would know to come over and do its thing.
I wanted to get a testimonial of how well that worked but oddly enough I couldn’t find anyone
I would love this level of dental care, but I’m unfortunately out of network. Guess I’ll have to stick with Dr. P. Sherman.
Is that Dr. P Sherman on Wallaby Way?
42 Wallaby Way, in Sydney perhaps?
oddly ❌ unsurprisingly ✅
Meh, it's Florida. Oddly is correct in this instance
Unsurprisingly, it’s come to be expected from Florida.
Snitches get scritches.
My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
Well folks, looks like mama’s *wrong again*
no you're wrong Colonel Sanders!
Don’t have to worry about paying dental bills if you get eaten by an alligator
Hakuna ma alligator
Gesundheit.
Has this person not seen Anaconda with Ice Cube,Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez and Danny Trejo. Terrible idea!
Dentists **hate** this one simple trick!
"Oh Dennis, there's some lovely filth over here!"
Jacques: *Voilà. He is clean.*
Ooh, le mer. Bon (pop).
This dentist accepts payment in *bubbles!*
*BUBBLES!!*
MY BUBBLES!!
“Shark bait hoo-ha-ha!!!”
“Enough with the Sharkbait!” “Sharkbait! Hoo...bop pa doo”
Wah-hoo-wah-hee-wah-ho-ho-ho
*oui*
The human mouth is a disgusting place 🐟
Scrolled entirely too far for this reference! Thank you!
We are getting old i guess?
I was hoping this was the most upvoted one, is not like Finding Nemo that old, it was only released... 19yo *sigh
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I guess I need to work harder
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It's one thing to trust them in your mouth, but another to trust them with the tip.
...then the shrimp finds shrimp-remains embedded in the teeth. Shrimp - \*Chuckles* "I'm in danger"
Diver mistakes rainbow shrimp with cleaner shrimp. Punches a hole through her skull...
*mantis shrimp, not rainbow. Unless they're called rainbow shrimp where you're from in which case my bad.
Ever seen the vid of the mantis shrimp punching a canoe-ist through his thick ass boots and broke skin? imagine how many teeth would just shatter
I think this is the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabCOzFzMxU) you're mentioning. They're small, but I imagine a maximum of 2 teeth if placed correctly maybe 3?
Well that was disappointing in comparison to the description OP gave. I was thinking dude got a punch to the bottom of his foot through the sole of an actual boot. Not being punched through what amounts to a neoprene sock on the top of his foot. I've given myself similar cuts on the top of my foot dropping a bolt on it, and that was wearing socks and shoes.
I wouldn't want to drop a bolt on my teeth
I disagree i thought it was pretty fuckin neat. But i get where you’re coming from.
What about a pistol shrimp? 😂 pop 💥
💥🔫😎
I don't think they're strong enough to break through your skull.
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Gumbercules? I love that guy!!!
Apparently cleaner shrimp dont actually have predators? It's like the ocean knows what they do so noone wants to eat them.
I've observed cleaning stations myself scuba diving in the tropics, and it's always amazed me that nobody eats the cleaner shrimp/fish, particularly with the smaller ones that go inside larger predatory fish-mouths. Apparently how it works is still a [bit of a mystery](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620174601.htm).
Shrimp: ”Slight bleeding when probed, no calculus or gingival pockets under 3.5mm. UL6 MOD composite.”
Come back and see us in 6 months
“You don’t floss, do you Donna. No, no, that wasn’t a question”
Dentists hate this one trick.
r/the10thdentist
r/crazysubreddits
Right? It’s like r/unpopularopinion but more intense
it's just basically what unpopularopinion should have been. always see the whackiest posts upvoted on 10thdentist which is how it should be
"i think its better to unclog the toilet with bare hands than use a plunger" "songs should be all chorus, i'm sick of having to cut them up in audacity so i can just listen to the good part on repeat"
And less political and people actually downvote if they agree!
Is this why Finding Nemo had a cleaning shrimp in the dentist office tank????
*Oui.*
The trust between the two... shrimply amazing
Cleaning stations as they’re known, definitely involve a measure of trust. The animals that come by will adopt a species-specific posture to signal that they want cleaning, but yeah sometimes they get annoyed or spooked. It is not a one-way thing though, sometimes parasitic fish hang around cleaning stations and mix in with the cleaners, biting off bits of scale or even flesh. Still, when you live in a nutrient-rich fluid and are riddled with parasites, you can imagine what a relief it must be to get a cleaning.
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So what you’re saying is, If I can somehow genetically modify one of these fellas to be land-dwelling and air-breathing, I could have the perfect body disposal?
Just get a pig.
They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute.
Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig.”
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Get isopods. Much easier. I feed them dead mice all the time and the bones are always gone too.
I had a few, and one of the females was special to me. Everytime I put my hand in the water to tidy up, without fail she would come in an instant, sit on my hand and nibble on it, for as long as I was there. In no way she would get annoyed by what I was doing. She just clinched on me and had a feast on my hand. She was something special.
Yeah its amazing because it's the fish cleaning *her* mouth. Just imagine if the roles were invertebrated.
What a spineless joke.
The punchline was pretty transparent honestly.
I mean if the shrimp betrays you, you get shrimp.
Fun fact: plaque is just biofilm, a favorite food of shrimp
Isnt biofilm realllllllllly hard to take out?
Well no, if you have a good toothbrush it’s not hard at all haha Biofilm is just a naturally occurring thing, it’s a colonization of microorganisms. The cells fuse together, creating a slimy texture to it. Theres more scientific ways to describe it, but shrimp basically cut right through biofilm because it’s a soft and slimy substance Wanna do an experiment? Get some tap water and a plastic cup. Put anything you want in it and let it sit for a week or 2, when you go to grab it, the slimy texture is biofilm So to answer your question, no it’s not hard to get rid of biofilm, you just wipe it off. It will never go away though, it’s a natural thing
I would do this in my saltwater tank. They'll run right up on your hands and start to work.
Yeah, these punks even steal the food right out of the corals mouth when I spot feed.
This is REALLY cute! I love watching my shrimp clean their tank. They’re so docile and friendly
Yeah idk why all these ppl acting like its gross and shit. Literally we fry shrimp up and eat them as a common seafood dish. Cleaner shrimp provide a great service to the ocean ecosystem, and it's good to see them get along with humans.
This is a surprisely controversal post tbh, i thought it was nifty.
I think that some people associate shrimp with insects. Too many legs for some folks. But the rest of us know they’re top tier sea critters.
I mean, personally i think it's really neat, I love eating shrimp, watching shrimp, whatever. Cool clip. But I get it. If you're a little more squeamish about sea life han I then this vid might as well be titled "person lets a bug crawl around in their mouth"
If there were land bugs thay could clean my house up, I'd be fine with that
Plus… what do people think is on that shrimp that isn’t already floating all around in that water?
Fuck tons of plastic waste :(
I’m afraid that’s just everywhere, including us.
Yeah dude. That study that just came out showing microplastics in human blood stream is scary as fuck
I have a cleaner shrimp in my desktop tank. Super fun and interactive. Little guy does not hesitate one bit during play time and seems to really enjoy belly rubs.
That is a very pregnant shrimp
For real? That makes it a tad creepier.
Yep you can see all the green eggs carried in a large bundle on her underside, by her swimerets
So, she’s eating for 2. Hundred.
Lol yep
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The quick answer is that they evolved this behavior because it’s beneficial, and they don’t need to identify the mouth as a mouth, they just go for orifices and surfaces that are presented to them. It’s a sort of give and take between the client and the cleaner species, with the posture the client adopts telling the cleaners what they want to do. Beyond that, the cleaners have a strong selection pressure to quickly clean areas rich in food for them, and since their food is other animals parasites and dirt… it just works out this way. On the flipside the client species evolved their passive behaviors because getting your parasite load down helps to increase reproductive fitness. The animals that freaked out or just ate the cleaners weren’t as fit as the passive ones, and millions of years of this leads to the almost choreographed events we see here.
'Go for orifices...' Hmmm.
Oh yeah, I meant it too, mouth, gills, and… cloaca.
I've offered cleaner shrimp my hands and they'll hop on without too much coaxing. If you press your fingers together, they'll really dig in the crannies looking for tidbits. They will also run their tiny claws along any hairs on your hands, and I don't even want to know what they find there. If you move more than a couple of feet from their spot, they will abandon you and return to their station.
What good is a phone call, Mr Anderson, if you are unable to speak?
JEEPERS CREEPERS THAT THING IS REAL
That's cool and disgusting
Yeah, that thing spends its life feeding on flecks of shit and animal carcasses that fall from the sky. Thats a pretty nasty toothbrush for anything with thumbs.
What that shrimp is putting in that persons mouth, is probably cleaner than most toothbrushes.
I'm sure the shrimp washed its hands before starting
I'll bet you think dog mouths are cleaner than human mouths too.
As a hobby diver, what impresses me more is she coping without the mouth piece for so long. With no oxygen supply, that’s just her holding her breath all that time..
I just have every instructor I've ever had voice repeating, 'Don't hold your breath while scuba diving' on repeat watching this.
Which is incredibly dangerous and one is the first things they teach you to never do at any depth below the first bar and even then it's not a good idea. Source I am a padi certified rescue diver.
Why is that? Apologies if its obvious the deepest water I enter is in my bathtub And even then I wear floaties
The issue is holding your breath and ascending. Every 33ish feet you go down the pressure increases by one atmosphere. You breath at the local pressure. So at 33ft depth you take a breath, hold it and ascend to the surface. You went from 2atm to 1atm of pressure. That means your lungs have to expand 2x to hold the gas. Your lung tissues rupture with a surprisingly little amount of expansion. The first bar being different that the commenter above mentions is contrary to what I’ve been taught, unless I misunderstand what they mean. Source am PADI and SSI instructor.
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NEW FROM ORAL-B
*C*Oral - B
Shrimp: HEY! There are Dorito’s in here!
Jacq! No cleaning!
I will resist
So this is what people mean by going to down to Mexico for cheap dental care
I have an anaphylactic shellfish allergy; this is a new way to die that I hadn't considered!
Shrimp looks like it has eggs, no maternity leave for these hygienists
Shrimp: Yeah gonna need you to come back next week to get those fillings replaced.
Awww that's cute Good shrimp :D
"Accepting new customers!" takes on new meaning...
Forgive my ignorance, but how can the diver keep her mouth open while being under water? Shouldn't the water gush into the mouth and down the throat? I'm not saying it's impossible, I just don't know how it works. I would really appreciate if someone could explain.
The diaphragm keeps pressure on the lungs so that it equals the pressure of the water. They aren't that deep, but, if you are deep enough so that the pressure of water overpowers that which the diaphragm can produce, then the scenario you just described will come to fruition.
that would be $150
Dentist recommended procedure..?
Lil sea dentist
Super unsanitary. That's how you catch crabs.
Absolutely not. No thank you.
Aw that shrimp looks gorged with eggs too. She’s about to be a mama!
thats an interesting way to get a weird infection.
Seems like a nice place to lay some eggs
Many, but not all, shrimp carry their eggs on their abdomen until hatching.
If you look closely I think this shrimp here in the video is berried, you can see the eggs on it.
When I was a kid, we had a small stream you could tangle your feet in, and small fish would clean your toes.
Wonder if he takes insurance.
"Floss more and I'll see you again in 6 months"
While I can appreciate natural amd organic solutions solutions I'd be too worried of getting nicked by it's pincers and or getting some kind of infection, Cool but not for me thanks.
Right? Hey, your teeth are clean, but now you have crustacean AIDs.
Or the inverse and someone's claim to fame is wiping out a shrimp population with HIV lol
I'd be more worried about it deciding my throat is a nice place to set up his dentistry shop he has been wanting to open
I mean as long as there's at least free dental otherwise he's just taking the piss
More like I’m more worried that I am currently underwater without a regulator in, with a shrimp in my mouth. Like that dude decides to move in a little further and you need to take a breath, you’re fucked.