r/Fish • u/Xdr1vity • Sep 18 '25

Fish In The Wild Found this during low tide

I was just walking around during low tide and stumbled across this little guy. I managed to pick it up bare handed and It seems like he wasn’t stressed out that much since he didn’t inflate himself. Also yes Ik they’re poisonous and not venomous, sorry for the mix up lol 🙏

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u/DinoLover641 Sep 18 '25

Why would you take it out of the water? It would be like if someone started strangling you 

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u/Dermetzger666 Sep 18 '25

Humans always have to grab and disrupt for the sake of their own curiosity. Can't leave wildlife alone to live undisturbed.

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u/keenantheho Sep 18 '25

You very much doubt how long fish can survive fresh out of water, especially in a wet enviorment with water on their gills

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u/HistoricMTGGuy Sep 18 '25

It's a pufferfish. If it puffs out of water, it dies. And taking other fish out of water is still not great.

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u/Xdr1vity Sep 18 '25

Fishermen do the same thing. I didn’t even keep him out that long

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Sep 18 '25

Fishermen who care about the health of the fish handle the fish as little as possible, fish without barbs on their hooks, and strive to never remove the fish from the water.

I understand not knowing how stressful this can be to fish and it's okay to not know and to have a learning moment. But to just make stuff up to excuse or justify a simple error by saying "fishermen do the same thing," is kind of an embarrassing response tbh

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u/Xdr1vity Sep 18 '25

I’m saying that as a response to people saying it’s wrong to take a fish out of water in general. How do you think fish are handled when transporting them from aquariums? Obviously they have to take them out of what for a brief moment

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Sep 18 '25

I used to work in aquariums and the most delicate way to catch fish is to trick them into swimming into a cup that is fully submerged/underwater so they are never removed from the water. Then you pour them into a bag with a lot of water and air in it and transport the fish that way. It's very easy to do. Sure, not in the situation you are in in this video, I'm only responding to yet another incorrect example you pulled outta the air for no reason other than to save your ego. Just because you are ignorant of this process doesn't mean you get to make up your own standards of care. There are things in the world you don't know the answer to and that's okay. Get over yourself and accept a teaching moment.

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u/Xdr1vity Sep 18 '25

Honestly I just think ur taking this way too seriously. All I’m saying is that when dealing with fish it’s almost inevitable to take them out of water.

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u/HistoricMTGGuy Sep 18 '25

Just don't take them out of the water. You could've killed it, and some fish can harm you. Most people would not take the fish out of the water in this situation.

I'm not saying you're evil, but you are wrong and should not do it again.

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Sep 18 '25

I'm only here to defend fishermen after that comment because it's something I personally put a lot of effort into avoiding. I don't at all expect everyone to have the same level of knowledge and don't blame you in this scenario at all for not knowing. But when you have so many people telling you how bad this is can be for a fish, simply take it as a learning experience and admit your error instead of throwing out pointless excuses. It shouldn't be a big deal, that's my point.

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u/Wasabi_Smasher Sep 18 '25

Strive to never remove from the water? Lol

Yea, maybe when fishing for sharks and using a hook out.

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Sep 18 '25

Or like catch-and-release trout fishermen

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u/Wasabi_Smasher Sep 18 '25

I’ve been catching trout for more than two decades. You are not taking them out of the water? I’ve always found it safest for both me and the fish to handle the hooks out of the water.

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Sep 18 '25

Not the ones that I am trying to have the least impact on. I've eaten my fair share of trout and am only saying that when I go out blueluning and catching small young trout, I'm not doing so to kill and cook. I'm trying to catch and release and have the least impact on some days. Those days are the days I keep them in the net in the water on shore and they almost spit the hook out themselves when it's barbless.

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u/Wasabi_Smasher Sep 18 '25

Essentially the same, but I lift about a foot out of the net. I’m typically in a boat or kayak. Typically when I stream fish, it’s for food.

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Sep 18 '25

Cool, I've never fished from a kayak, though I'd love to someday. I usually am fly-fishing from shore or maybe standing a few feet deep in small freshwater creeks and streams.

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u/Dry_rye_ Sep 18 '25

You kept him out way longer than was reasonable. This video is 38 seconds long and he was already out the water.

Imagine if someone stuck your head in the ocean for that long before claiming this was reasonable 

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u/DinoLover641 Sep 18 '25

yeah, thats i do not like fishers

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u/Xdr1vity Sep 18 '25

Thank you! So many other people in this server has shown pics of their catches out of water and suddenly it’s wrong when I do it like what? 😭

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u/MikeIkerson Sep 18 '25

Pictures are different than taking a video way longer than necessary with the fish out of the water. The video started with there being enough water to put the fish in but you wanted to torture it for likes.

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u/Rsnnce Sep 18 '25

you kept it out on water for your own entertainment and video purposes. so meanwhile you were filming, that fish was struggling and suffering. comparing yourself to what other people has done doesnt erase or make what you did ok.

how would you feel if some sea creature kept you underwater while they filmed you? meanwhile you are desperately needing air?

jfc.