What do fish do if they have a itch?

[Spot261]

in the grand scales of things, does it matter?

 

[Jayson1]

We need to get serious! The fish might be going through untold horror from itchen and we got to stop it. We need to get all the governments of the world to organize a massive effort of dumping tons and tons of oatmeal into the ocean to help possibly solve the problem. I have heard that oatmeal helps with itchen so it might solve the problem, if it exists.

Jason

 

[scotpens]

Must've taken a lot of mussel strength to jump this thread!

If you're going to stretch the fish puns to include mollusks, we might as well include marine mammals. Did you do that on porpoise?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's certainly become a whale of a good time, hasn't it?

 

[Spot261]

It's certainly become a whale of a good time, hasn't it?

Whales aren't fish!!!!!

There's always one......

 

[Jayson1]

Whales aren't fish!!!!!

There's always one......

Actually you might can make a argument they are part fish. When they eat fish then that meat becomes part of them. Kind of like that old idea that you are what you eat.

Jason

 

[dahj]

Whales aren't fish!!!!!

That's dolphinitely an inexcusable mistake!

 

[Silvercrest]

You can either forgive the mistake, orcall the moderators. Personally I think the poster should mail out an apology, COD.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And then whistle a happy tuna.

 

[Spot261]

And then whistle a happy tuna.

forgiven

 

[Silvercrest]

I'd say that last one was unforgivable, but I have my own roe to hoe.

Still, if it were up to me, everyone involved would walk the plank- tons of them!

 

[Spider]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Trout-standing!

 

[Spot261]

Good one chum

 

[Tora Ziyal]

I'd say that last one was unforgivable, but I have my own roe to hoe.

Off topic, but thank you for the reminder -- I need to make a follow-up appointment with my sturgeon.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm sure eel do just that!

Assuming he doesn't stay up all night watching internet prawn.

 

[Kor]

I'm not sure why I was thinking about this but I did and now I want to know. With humans and other animals we have limbs to scratch at a itch. plus I think we have all seen dogs sort of bite at themselves in dealing with this issue.

A fish or anything like it such as a dolphin or shark have no limbs to do it and I don't think they have enough head movement or flexability to get to, hard to reach areas. Plus they even have anything in the sea to rub up against which is something we land animals can do.

Is it possible that fish tend to have lives of horrible torment of constant itching and they have nothing they can do about it?

Jason

Rub up against a rock or something.

Kor

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yeah, some fish do rub themselves against rocks and such to relieve itching from parasites and the like (see my link above). Others rely on symbiotic cleaning by other species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_symbiosis

 

[Velocity]

Well, any fin is possible, I guess.

 

[Silvercrest]

Yeah, some fish do rub themselves against rocks and such to relieve itching from parasites and the like (see my link above). Others rely on symbiotic cleaning by other species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_symbiosis

Playing the thread straight? Well, remora the merrier.