Research Question

[Dania]

Some of you know I’m writing a book. Question is could a golem dwarf moray bite a person’s hand or arm bad enough to need stitches?

thanks for any help!

 

[blaxsun]

Yeah, those teeth are razor sharp. I don't know about appendages, but fingers and hands are definitely on the menu.

 

[Dania]

Fun. Just another reason not to hide the fish you get from your parents.
Still working on the outline for the story but am also at least putting up snippets on tumblr. Same name as here.

 

[i cant think]

Yeah, those teeth are razor sharp. I don't know about appendages, but fingers and hands are definitely on the menu.

+1 to this, their teeth are nasty when you come across one.

 

[Dania]

yep. Short form is the main character is given a tank but the people who gave it to her didn't know about the eel.

 

[blaxsun]

yep. Short form is the main character is given a tank but the people who gave it to her didn't know about the eel.

Plot twist: or maybe they did...

 

[Dania]

Nope not THIS time anyway.

 

[Dania]

How big is their bite radius? I know they are about a foot long.
How big was yours when you got him?
Trying to figure out how big her surprise eel should be.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Some of you know I’m writing a book. Question is could a golem dwarf moray bite a person’s hand or arm bad enough to need stitches?

thanks for any help!

yup, and to put the cherry on top, they cover the wound with horrid saliva filled with infection causing bacteria. If you have been bitten badly, it would be best to seek professional medical attention to clean and close the wound.

 

[GARRIGA]

Unless someone has actually gotten stitches then I find it hard to believe that size moray can pose that kind of threat. Never had this exact species but did have Snowflake that was bigger then this gets plus have caught countless morays in Florida that are larger and in those I've examined the teeth and although that of a two foot plus moray might be large enough to inflict a cut needed stitches the teeth on something a foot long highly unlikely. Just consider the length of the teeth.

 

[Dania]

Good to know. Any pictures would be good. Of their teeth or even pics of any bites you've gotten.

 

[SlugSnorter]

How big is their bite radius? I know they are about a foot long.
How big was yours when you got him?
Trying to figure out how big her surprise eel should be.

fully grown, (was worried for a moment you had actually been bitten IRL) so about a foot long, heres a vid of one feeding they also have a pharyngeal jaw, so its like two bites in one

 

[SlugSnorter]

Unless someone has actually gotten stitches then I find it hard to believe that size moray can pose that kind of threat. Never had this exact species but did have Snowflake that was bigger then this gets plus have caught countless morays in Florida that are larger and in those I've examined the teeth and although that of a two foot plus moray might be large enough to inflict a cut needed stitches the teeth on something a foot long highly unlikely. Just consider the length of the teeth.

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snowflakes eat hard foods, and have blunted teeth (they can still really hurt you) morays have very strong, sharp teeth, and rip backwards with their main jaw and Pharyngeal jaw, worsening the damage. To top it off, they have some horrid saliva that causes deadly infections.

 

[SlugSnorter]

sidenote: are you sure you don't want it to be a larger Moray? a dragon moray comes to mind, it also has some bonus style points

 

[Dania]

Thanks for the video.

The scene is she was given the tank after the original owner apparently killed himself and she was the veterinarian for his pets. The parents didn't know what the tank stock was.

 

[GARRIGA]

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snowflakes eat hard foods, and have blunted teeth (they can still really hurt you) morays have very strong, sharp teeth, and rip backwards with their main jaw and Pharyngeal jaw, worsening the damage. To top it off, they have some horrid saliva that causes deadly infections.

I'm referencing the snowflake as to comparison of teeth that size animal would have. Has anyone ever actually required stitches from this exact moray? I've handled larger morays that have the same structure as the teeth being researched and they just weren't that large at two feet. I've also handles a massive green moray which did have the teeth structure and size that would require stitches. This moray was well over five feet. Major size difference in teeth that had over the smaller florida morays we often encounter between a foot and two feet long. Oddly, most freak out when they see the smaller morays. Me too. lol

 

[Dania]

At this point she doesn't have any eels because she didn't consider herself ready to take them on. Plus just barely out of college.

 

[SlugSnorter]

I'm referencing the snowflake as to comparison of teeth that size animal would have. Has anyone ever actually required stitches from this exact moray? I've handled larger morays that have the same structure as the teeth being researched and they just weren't that large at two feet. I've also handles a massive green moray which did have the teeth structure and size that would require stitches. This moray was well over five feet. Major size difference in teeth that had over the smaller florida morays we often encounter between a foot and two feet long. Oddly, most freak out when they see the smaller morays. Me too. lol

not just the size as I said, its the tearing motion. Snowflakes have particularly short and blunt because they eat mainly inverts and can just crush softer pray.

 

[Dania]

Spoiler she will end up keeping the golden. Will get a dragon once she has more experience.

 

[blaxsun]

images.google.com. Search for moray eel bites. You've been warned...