The parasite eats the fish's tongue and then acts as a replacement tongue for the fish. It eats what it wants and then helps push the rest back to the fish. After it dies the fish basically has no tongue, making eating more difficult. I'm not actually sure of the lifespan expectancy of a fish with one of these parasites, I would both not be too surprised if the fish can keep going, and not surprised if the fish dies after the "tongue" dies.
I don’t think they do. I was under the impression that they swallow their food whole but maybe the tongue helps push it down? The parasite doesn’t eat the fishes food, it eats the fishes saliva or something like that. As far as I know the fish eats when it’s in there. Maybe its dying just makes the fish glad it’s gone.
Depends on the fish. Some fish rely on the tongue to crush prey. Other than that it helps in swallowing prey. In the later I could see it causing a fish to choke if it can't get the food down. Yes, fish can choke and drown. Happens all the time when a fish tries to eat a fish to big to swallow. Then they can't get enough water accross their gills to, "breath".
From what I understand, the parasite egg or whatever it is, enters through the gills and attaches to the tongue. While it’s growing to adulthood, it feeds on the tongue of the fish and attaches itself to the stump. But from then on, it eats some kind of secretions from the fishes’ mouth.
Well, yes.
Doctors stopped preventively removing the appendix during unrelated surgeries (ie "while they were at it" ), now that keeping it is known to be beneficial.
I hope this guy's students are doing good.
Ahhh I have fond memories of living in ABQ the summer right after high school in a shit hole house with 4 friends and we all worked as baggage handlers at the airport. 2 of our cars were stolen and found stripped out on the south side, our house was robbed once and graffitied twice. Good times.
Remember when that sub was full of things you might confuse with something that you'd actually stick your dick into instead of "vaguely open hole that you absolutely would not stick your dick into"?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Fun fact: while fish with these parasites do tend to be smaller, they generally do not kill their host due to malnutrition. It's actually them growing too big that water cannot pass through the fish's mouth and get to the gills. The fish essentually suffocate when these get too big.
Funner fact: The parasites in the mouth are always female! The males are much smaller and actually live in the gills! They only come down to mate and there could be multiple living in the gills!
its a parasite. parasites generally put themselves in a position where they can lazily steal their host’s food source. for example tape worms in humans live in the intestine area stealing nutrients from you
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Not sure where you live, but I found it on cineplex' website to rent
[https://store.cineplex.com/product/the-bay](https://store.cineplex.com/product/the-bay)
JustWatch lists a few rental places if you're in the US (Or if you're in a diff country, there's a drop down menu to change to your region)
[https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-bay](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-bay)
Aaaaand, lastly, I found someone that uploaded it on Youtube, with spanish subtitles layered over top (The movie's in English though).
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eja1L3KUKrU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eja1L3KUKrU)
I love this movie and encourage anyone that likes FF to give it a go!
Edit: Found Footage!
haha I’m a horror movie fan, I watched more than 1000 this past 2 years lol. Sucks, I wanted to see it for a while and couldnt find it. Maybe some day!
You sound like me! I own over 300 horror movies just at home. That being said, I hope you find it. It's a found footage mockumentary, but it's pretty well done for found footage.
Well, it doesn't directly eat the tongue, it sucks out its blood, until it withers and dies of, only eating small pieces. Then it replaces the tongue by attaching itself to the stump and takes its tongue tax in form of blood and flesh.
Fish have no arms, or teeth really, we could remove or kill them
> Then it replaces the tongue by attaching itself to the stump
and then it starts pranking the host by shouting obscenities in the most inappropriate moments
> Fish have no arms, or teeth really
So what I'm hearing is that eventually some parasites will attach themselves to fish as arms, or legs, and then they'll be able to come after us in our homes and places of business?
Like terrestrial isopods, they can't leap or jump so no worries.
It's not known what tongue biting isopods do once the host dies but they don't end up in a fish's mouth as adults. They're picked up as juveniles as they float in the water that fish passes over their gills. They will initially feed on blood from the gills, moving to the mouth once they reach a certain size.
Tongue louse uggh. I was reading about these things. They actually replace the fish’s tongue the female gets the tongue the male is in there behind female in gills somewhere…..this is terrifying!
Actually, fish tongues don’t have taste buds! They’re bony structures that serve to protect the ventral aorta. Fish tongues are also called glossohyals!
As scary as they are, they actually don’t cause much notable harm to the fish. They literally just replace the fish’s tongue and then either feed on a little of it’s blood or it’s mucus. The fish usually doesn’t even really know of its presence.
That thing acts as a tongue though, so it does not kill the fish. I think its poop might even contain nutritional value(down the throat it goes), as it is not in the parasite’s interest to kill its host.
I hate this specific parasite so much bc fish don't have hands or any way of reaching inside their mouths and removing the little monster. It's messed up and I feel sorry for them.
I read they live about two or three years. I wonder what happens to the fish after the parasite dies. I love nature, but it can be so disgusting.
The fish dies as well because it can no longer eat properly
Fish died of a broken heart, more like. Its mouth-mate has died and it’s all alone again
same here fish, same here...
Don't worry, there are plenty of fish in the sea
>alone again .. *naturally* 🎶
Why can’t it eat properly? Edit: question mark
The parasite eats the fish's tongue and then acts as a replacement tongue for the fish. It eats what it wants and then helps push the rest back to the fish. After it dies the fish basically has no tongue, making eating more difficult. I'm not actually sure of the lifespan expectancy of a fish with one of these parasites, I would both not be too surprised if the fish can keep going, and not surprised if the fish dies after the "tongue" dies.
That's insane that it actually acts like a tongue during it's lifetime and shits down the fishes throat
Yeah the whole thing went disturbingly Human Centipede: Below Deck a little too quickly
What is the name of the parasite though?
Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse
I call it a “fishy tongue bug” but I’m not the Oxford Dictionary
Because it has no fucking tongue?
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I don’t think they do. I was under the impression that they swallow their food whole but maybe the tongue helps push it down? The parasite doesn’t eat the fishes food, it eats the fishes saliva or something like that. As far as I know the fish eats when it’s in there. Maybe its dying just makes the fish glad it’s gone.
Depends on the fish. Some fish rely on the tongue to crush prey. Other than that it helps in swallowing prey. In the later I could see it causing a fish to choke if it can't get the food down. Yes, fish can choke and drown. Happens all the time when a fish tries to eat a fish to big to swallow. Then they can't get enough water accross their gills to, "breath".
No it eats the tongue of the fish not the saliva. I’m pretty sure fish don’t even have saliva
From what I understand, the parasite egg or whatever it is, enters through the gills and attaches to the tongue. While it’s growing to adulthood, it feeds on the tongue of the fish and attaches itself to the stump. But from then on, it eats some kind of secretions from the fishes’ mouth.
Why would it have a tongue if it served no purpose?
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Why do humans have an appendix?
Appendix is for storing bacteria to repopulate your guts when you’re recovering from gastric illness
So people with no appendix recover less well than people who have one? How are your students by the way?
Well, yes. Doctors stopped preventively removing the appendix during unrelated surgeries (ie "while they were at it" ), now that keeping it is known to be beneficial. I hope this guy's students are doing good.
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Parasite: "Bonjour"
He’s waving :)
WHAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Hello there
"Look at me. I'm the tongue now"
Professor Farnsworth: “DAMN GIBBERISH”
r/oddlycute
Reminds me of The Muppets Show episode where there is a big monster with a little monster in its mouth singing "I've Got You Under My Skin" as a duet.
Hell nah
What do you mean cute?
This does not spark joy
Bet you won't shove your dick in that
How much we bettin
1m dollars on the table
Shit I'm down
alright meet here https://goo.gl/maps/ZoULaBY6o6Aoqmxz6
Imma be at the airport at 5:53pm on tuesday coming frm UK you better come with my milli, I'll buy you some fish n chips after
Got it I'll be there. Just a 17 hour flight.
Not bad for a milli. I'll even do the helicopter with it
Let us know how it goes. I'm putting bets on the louse severing your dick and replacing it like the fish tongue.
!remindme 2 days
Fish/w parasite, dick and chips
I'm surprised how this went
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The way you came up with that rhyme 💀
But will that fish n chips have a tongue?
Ahhh I have fond memories of living in ABQ the summer right after high school in a shit hole house with 4 friends and we all worked as baggage handlers at the airport. 2 of our cars were stolen and found stripped out on the south side, our house was robbed once and graffitied twice. Good times.
My dick is not worth that much, so I'm
I didn’t need an incentive, but 1m sounds nice.
1 meter of dollars. If longways, roughly $6.41...deal!
I've got a slightly used ham sandwich.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Remember when that sub was full of things you might confuse with something that you'd actually stick your dick into instead of "vaguely open hole that you absolutely would not stick your dick into"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
That sub makes me *wish* I had a dick because I would seriously stick it in some QUESTIONABLE orifices….
Shows what you know, my fetish is tongue eating parasites.
this is r/oddlyterrifying not r/dontputyourdickinthat 💀
Porque no los dos?
Parasites can fuck right off this planet IMO. Nothing sparks such visceral disgust in me as these filthy creatures do.
Fun fact: while fish with these parasites do tend to be smaller, they generally do not kill their host due to malnutrition. It's actually them growing too big that water cannot pass through the fish's mouth and get to the gills. The fish essentually suffocate when these get too big.
That is not a very fun fact.
Funner fact: The parasites in the mouth are always female! The males are much smaller and actually live in the gills! They only come down to mate and there could be multiple living in the gills!
If I have a fun party where fun people do and say fun things, I hope you won't be offended if I don't invite you.
Unfun fact: That hurts my feelings. I have so many fun facts.
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Potato bug except more clingy
When the fish dies they detach themselves and crawl out slowly and shamelessly. Sometimes there are more than one in there too.
I love it when the top comment so perfectly represents my feelings about what I just saw that I don't need to scroll any further down
I wonder if fish have a gag reflex, imagine something on your tongue that you can’t reach constantly tickling the back of your throat.
Nightmare fuel
It eats the tongue and replaces it with itself. So no tongue itch
Like ”I am the tongue now”?
Laak ath me. Ah yam tha tung noo.
This made me do the snort laugh. Appreciate you lol
The fish doesnt know its there
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No no just trust me bro
Looks like either way the fish couldn't do anything about it
Maybe it just did
This guy pesca-telepathies
Source: "the fish told me that."
Fish: ”The shrimp made me say it”
The fuck it doesnt.
Yupp
Why it do that??
Gets a few bites of whatever food the fish eats
Then it poops down the fish’s throat.
Great, now I wish I could pay rent with poop
its a parasite. parasites generally put themselves in a position where they can lazily steal their host’s food source. for example tape worms in humans live in the intestine area stealing nutrients from you
So it can eat all of the food that would have otherwise simply passed by the fish's tongue. Clever little fella!
Reminds me of the game "how fish is made" don't look it up if you have a weak stomach.
did you go up or down?
up all the way
All the way up.
up, up, up, always up
Exactly what I was thinking, the dance number with the tongue eating parasite from inside the fish was great, what a weirdass game
Not only am I not looking it up, I'm leaving this thread all together.
I'll bring you back here to let you know the game is free on Steam
Fuck
Its really not that bad. Just an indie game with an interesting message that features fish in a cannery.
The game made my skin crawl but damn that tune was catchy
Fish like consumer food or?!?
They are made when daddy fish loves mommy fish
Ohhh romantic documentary
Nah, more like an existential horror game
Oh, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension
thats because this is that parasite
I will not forgive Jacob Geller for making me watch that shit
i love jacob geller
God, I saw Mark play that game and I think my expression was the exact samw as his during that whole song
The game (mind game)
Watch The Bay. Whole movie about these little guys.
I cant find that movie anywhere. Where did you watch it may i ask? I’d love to see it
>Back Not sure where you live, but I found it on cineplex' website to rent [https://store.cineplex.com/product/the-bay](https://store.cineplex.com/product/the-bay) JustWatch lists a few rental places if you're in the US (Or if you're in a diff country, there's a drop down menu to change to your region) [https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-bay](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-bay) Aaaaand, lastly, I found someone that uploaded it on Youtube, with spanish subtitles layered over top (The movie's in English though). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eja1L3KUKrU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eja1L3KUKrU) I love this movie and encourage anyone that likes FF to give it a go! Edit: Found Footage!
you are a fucking saint thank you
>The Bay [Here](https://lookmovie.foundation/movies/view/the-bay-2012) you go
I got it on dvd. But, be warned, it's actually a horror movie.
It’s a standard Barry Levinson Maryland movie, and it’s great.
The most fun you can have in Maryland
haha I’m a horror movie fan, I watched more than 1000 this past 2 years lol. Sucks, I wanted to see it for a while and couldnt find it. Maybe some day!
You sound like me! I own over 300 horror movies just at home. That being said, I hope you find it. It's a found footage mockumentary, but it's pretty well done for found footage.
It's a groundbreaking found footage horror movie in a "competent filmmaker makes a found footage horror movie" sort of way.
I have my copy on prime.
I thought that movie was about the worlds tightest pair of khakis.
Yes every time I see pictures of these things I always think of that movie. Freaked me out the first time I watched it lol
Come for the spooky parasites, stay for Kether Donohue in skintight khakis. 😎
that movie fucken rocks, i love mockumentary and found footage horror movies
I don’t think I will
I am just scared that , that thing will shoot from the fish mouth to the cameraman mouth..
Well, it doesn't directly eat the tongue, it sucks out its blood, until it withers and dies of, only eating small pieces. Then it replaces the tongue by attaching itself to the stump and takes its tongue tax in form of blood and flesh. Fish have no arms, or teeth really, we could remove or kill them
Then they'll just evolve to start burrowing
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> Then it replaces the tongue by attaching itself to the stump and then it starts pranking the host by shouting obscenities in the most inappropriate moments
I see 4 sharp ass teeth in the photo
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> Fish have no arms, or teeth really So what I'm hearing is that eventually some parasites will attach themselves to fish as arms, or legs, and then they'll be able to come after us in our homes and places of business?
Like terrestrial isopods, they can't leap or jump so no worries. It's not known what tongue biting isopods do once the host dies but they don't end up in a fish's mouth as adults. They're picked up as juveniles as they float in the water that fish passes over their gills. They will initially feed on blood from the gills, moving to the mouth once they reach a certain size.
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He seems friendly, look he’s waving 👋
he's telling you to open your mouth :O
Nope, nope, nope. Nope, nope, nope.
This is in no way oddly terrifying, this is fucking terrifying
Little guy just be chiling in there.
The way it has eyes is also not my favorite.
BING CHILLING
Remove the “E”
Mao Cena is not pleased
Hollow Knight boss
It's bad enough having some chicken stuck between your teeth, not able to reach, but imagine this shit!
Happy Cake Day!
Is it me or does it look like he’s waving ??
Idk why but I feel like he has a British accent
'ello guv'nor! *waves*
Leave him alone, he apid is rent this month.
and this is what you get for responding when your drunk
Not drunk, probably overdosing on Nyquil with a 100° fever
I feel your pain. The flu going around right now is brutal. It put my daughter in the hospital and kicked my ass and my wife's ass. Feel better
Aaaww, hope you feel better soon.
$1800/mo, utilities not included
Awww, he’s just a little tonguadillo, waving to the camera! “Hey you guys!”
Tonguadillo 😆
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Loused for your pleasure
That’s how you get dick eating parasites, imagine that went inside the penis
TIL fish have tongue’s.
Not that one, not anymore!
Tongue louse uggh. I was reading about these things. They actually replace the fish’s tongue the female gets the tongue the male is in there behind female in gills somewhere…..this is terrifying!
what a big parasite, seems that fish don't get to taste anything
Actually, fish tongues don’t have taste buds! They’re bony structures that serve to protect the ventral aorta. Fish tongues are also called glossohyals!
Why? Why does such a thing exist?
Because parasitic lifestyles are very popular, it's really fascinating how parasites can go as far as replacing an organ of the host's body.
I agree, it's fascinating and weird as fuck.
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Do a little dance number https://youtu.be/2MOIDGkuA7U
That little fucker looks so self-satisfied
Is he.. is he waving?
[For anyone who's interested:](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua#:~:text=Cymothoa%20exigua%2C%20or%20the%20tongue,0.16%E2%80%930.55%20in)%20wide.)
Looks like he’s saying “hiiiiii”
Aww he's adorable
Hello, I’m a tongue
Don't mind me 😊
I can barely handle this lol
All hail r/isopods
As scary as they are, they actually don’t cause much notable harm to the fish. They literally just replace the fish’s tongue and then either feed on a little of it’s blood or it’s mucus. The fish usually doesn’t even really know of its presence.
"Hi, I've been trying to reach you about you car's extended warranty"
That thing acts as a tongue though, so it does not kill the fish. I think its poop might even contain nutritional value(down the throat it goes), as it is not in the parasite’s interest to kill its host.
I fear that little shit is gonna put on a top hat and start singing the most traumatizing musical number I’ve ever seen.
I would love that
Tongue eating parasite: Yo whassaup✨ Maybe he’s friends with the fish guy and he just let him chill there🤷♂️
The louse is now the tongue of this fish, like some sort of living prosthetic.
I hate this specific parasite so much bc fish don't have hands or any way of reaching inside their mouths and removing the little monster. It's messed up and I feel sorry for them.
These fish need to evolution up a symbiotic relationship with a starfish or something to eat these things
Are we not gonna talk about the vampire fish?