• P34C0CK@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    This river can kill you 1,000 ways.

    l can handle it. The only thing I’m afraid of is the candiru acu.

    It’s a tiny little catfish. It swims up into your urethra, spreads its little spines, and refuses to budge.

    You have to cut it out.

    That’s it I’m going back to L.A.!

    • rutellthesinful@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      the candiru acu is actually the common name for cetopsis candiru

      the fish that swims up where it shouldn’t is the vandellia cirrhosa

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’d be more worried about the brain eating amoebas in the warm stagnant water.

        Maybe it’s safe if you keep your head out of the water and your fingers out of your nose. Dunno.

    • FarFarAway@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      it makes you feel better, the fish has only been documented doing this once in 1997, and it could have been a hoax

      Originally I thought the fish only went up there if you peed in the water, but that too seems questionable…

      But it does seem to like swimming up women’s hooha’s. Just don’t be a woman and you’ll be fine!