Friends who like to soak in hot springs and go to foot massage shops must have realized the service of "fish therapy". Put your feet in hot water and let many small fish eat their "dead skin". It is really comfortable. So, have you ever thought about what kind of fish this hot spring fish is? Why do they have a unique love for dead skin? Are they as docile as we see?
Why do hot spring fish like to clean dead skin?
Mr. Wang has a special liking for fish therapy. Every time he goes on a business trip, he will feel the comfort and pleasure brought by fish therapy. Sitting in the middle of the pond, the small fish in the whole pond would rush up, and after surrounding Mr. Wang's feet, they would start to help him clean up his dead skin. What kind of fish is the hot spring fish in the fish therapy store? Why do you have a special liking for cleaning up human dead skin?
The fish used in fish therapy stores in various places is a very special fish, and it is divided into two types. One is starfish , and the other is light red ink head fish . Both of these fish come from the same origin - Türkiye .
Starfish
In addition, they have a common feature, which is that they are extremely heat-resistant and adapt to living in water from 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. Because they loved to eat human dead skin, hundreds of years ago, they were treated as "magic medicine" by princes and nobles and placed in hot springs for breeding. Gradually, this fish was called "hot spring fish" by the world.
So, why do hot spring fish have a special liking for human dead skin? In fact, this is related to the body structure of hot spring fish. They are naturally teethless fish. They all feed on plankton in the water. Only when food is extremely scarce will they treat the dead skin of the human body as their own food.
After seizing this feature, many owners of fish therapy shops saw business opportunities. They have always kept the hot spring fish hungry. As long as customers come to do fish therapy, the hot spring fish will rush up to eat the dead skin of customers' feet without any choice.
So, are hot spring fish really not scary or lethal?
says that hot spring fish is very gentle and has no lethality at all. It is false that a man once put a small fish in the pond of hot spring fish in order to confirm this problem. As a result, in just a few dozen seconds, the man took out the little fish again, and the whole fish turned into a fish skeleton. It is indeed very scary to look at hot spring fish like this. Even if they have no teeth, their ability to eat is very strong.
Coincidentally, Ms. Zhang from Guangxi has suffered from fish healing. According to Ms. Zhang, "When she went to a newly opened local fish therapy store for fish therapy, she found that the fish therapy store was a copycat version of the fish therapy store. Although there were hot spring fish inside, she found that her feet were very painful during the hot spring fish nibbled. When she opened the hot spring fish school, Ms. Zhang found that there was actually a tropical tilapia mixed with . This fish has teeth, so it makes people feel very painful when eating dead skin."
It can be seen that is a "hot spring fish" mixed with fish and dragons or a real hot spring fish, both are dangerous. Many netizens left messages and sighed: "Isn't this the reduced version of piranha in reality?" "I just want to know that these people who do fish therapy really don't feel pain? The food nibbling is so strong, it's so scary." "Don't go to the fish therapy shop, it's so scary. What if you get bitten by a hot spring fish?" "I have to say that although the fish of this breed is small in size, it's very lethal. If you get rid of a small fish, you're really good at gnawing. "
fish still has a certain lethality, so when doing fish therapy, we must also be careful. When they eat their feet, they may be numbing you and making you relax your vigilance against them. Once a small fish is too powerful, you will be the one who will suffer in the end. You must know. The foot is a part of the human body's nerves that are not sensitive. Even if is bitten by a hot spring fish, this kind of pain is not easily discovered.
Is the hot spring fish effective?
Many businesses regard hot spring fish as their biggest selling point, so is this horrible and reduced version of "piranha" effective? The main working principle of hot spring fish is to surround the human body and then eat the aging cuticle of the human body. We can see advertisements published in various fish therapy stores: hot spring fish has magical effects such as beauty and beauty, blood circulation and removing blood stasis and .
However, from the working principle of hot spring fish, we can see that most of the they eat are dead skins of aging human feet and cannot play any therapeutic role. , so everyone should be careful and never be misled by the variety of fish therapy advertisements. This kind of fish treatment not only has no effect, but is also easily injured by accident. After all, hot spring fish still has a certain lethality.
Where did the hot spring fish in the fish therapy store finally go?
Seeing thousands of hot spring fish being trapped in a fish therapy shop, some people can't help but question: "Where will the final destination of hot spring fish go?" For merchants, they will not do a loss-making business at all. After all, these hot spring fish were purchased at a high price. For those hot spring fish that are not capable of eating and want to be eliminated, merchants will sell them for for a second time, which will make you more money back.
So, in daily life, are the dried salted fish or salted fish sauce we eat on weekdays also made of second-hand hot spring fish? We don’t know about this issue, but the only thing that can be confirmed is that the market price of hot spring fish is very high, and the dried salted fish we usually buy is very cheap. So, no food manufacturer is willing to buy second-hand hot spring fish at a high price.
Overall, the special species of hot spring fish should return to nature. Whether it is dangerous to humans or not, seeking violence by fish to cure hunger is disrespectful to animals. Just imagine that while we enjoy the comfort and pleasure brought by hot spring fish, hot spring fish are suffering from hunger. If they return to nature, they may not be unique to human dead skin.
I believe that there are many animals in this world, like hot spring fish, which have become tools for merchants to make huge profits. If such animal populations are truly on the verge of extinction, they may have a serious impact on humans. So I call on everyone to protect animals is to protect humans themselves.
