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    cirocco: One of my former places of employ kept a saltwater tank with several cleaner shrimp. I always enjoyed putting my hands in the water and letting them ... more »
    KimberleeJean: I once experienced something similar, only with a goat and my hair. more »
    CherriSpryte: I'm really suprised so many of these comments are so negative - I really want to get a fish pedicure .... if I had a spare $50 and the means to get ou... more »
    UrbanAchiever: Finally, *fin* to the finny goings on at fishy foot salons. more »
    applejuice: I don't need no fish, I got myself a nice little cheese grater, uh - I mean "ped-egg", that grosses everybody out just fine thanks. more »
    LazyHippo: I don't know, if it's good enough for hippos . . . more »
    morninggloria: This was a piece of cautionary legislature put in place to prevent the inevitable future rise in popularity of the barracuda bris. more »
    Devonna: Why pay for it? Just go to a freshwater lake with sunfish and those babies will munch away for free. I never called it a pedicure, I called it "summ... more »
    rixatrix: When are women going to learn to stop using parasites for beauty rituals? Leeches, tapeworms, fish pedicures - seriously, when does gross trump pretty? more »
    HarpMadness: Can't we just use that razor-blade egg thing? more »
    whynotshesaid: Has anyone had this done? I am so intrigued by it, in a perverse way. more »
    lilbobbytables: See, I don't want to encourage our fishy friends to develop a taste for man. I read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I know what will happen ne... more »
    SaturdaysChild: This is about my worst nightmare EVER. Seriously, thinking about fish nibbling on my feet makes me want to vomit. more »
    Mayonegg: ah yes, something that was discovered in order to eat burn patients delicate dead tissue, and appropriated by expensive salons is of course unsanitary... more »
    inabook: Awwww, but it can totally be done in a sanitary way! and its sort of cool! fish clean your feet and get to snack while doing it! more »
  • #somethingfishy

    Feet First

    Secretary of State Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez has announced plans to ban fish pedicures in New York. She calls the practice - in which carp feed on the dead skin of customers' feet - unsanitary. We call it gross and unnecessary. [NYPost]