Hmm finally something that fits here

Hirudo medicinalis:
I took some pics of the little sucker but since I deactivated my i cant post them up. Here a pic of what they look like (I get them from Crazy Dave)
http://www.crazydavesinverts.com/medicinalis.html
Anyways after 2 weeks of trying to feed it I finally got it to get me LOL.
Heres some pics 8 hours later after it stopped bleeding. It ended up looking like a little bananna after it finally finished. Definatly one of my favorite pets now I might try to breed them in the future.

nice, im not a fan of leeches id rather not let one feed off of me theres definetly something wrong with you

It was pretty cool although for such a small thing it did take quite a lot of blood.

dont they take like 10x there own body weight or something like that?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

hmmmm......... did you fell woozy after it had its fill? why did you let it feed on you anyway?

Well what else am i gonna feed it? Plus I kinda always wanted to try it. I didn't really feel woozy but i did it at night where i normally fall asleep at 2-3 am I went to sleep at 1am dont know if it was because of that.
Lycan it got a whole lot bigger it's the size of those mini bananas now.

Wow . . . and I thought you were weird before.



Leeches are kinda cool, though. I like watching 'em swim.

so none of you would let a leach bite you? lame!!

Let's get high off leeches.

I'm trying to get some more. They should be pretty easy to breed their hermaphrodites and their breeding season is in a month.

So it's a yes.

sure...i dont see how...but okay.

Cleaned up today so you can see the Mercedes Benz mark it left me.

kool, i wouldnt be bothered about it biting me iv had them on me before. You could try it on live fish

I rather it only get it's blood from me. I think naturally though they get their blood from frogs.

I don't mean to necro-post but that's pretty neat! I've seen them before on Dave's website and I thought "who the heck would want to order one of these??" and now I know

I'd let it suck the blood out of me.

I kinda messed up. I didnt treat the small wound which caused a painful infection. Just stopped hurting today....haha now I now what to do next time.

eek, that's pretty neat

I just fed it again last night. It took a lot longer this time I thought i was gonna fall asleep on it.

Abyss is weird.. but umm..

i'll get 1 d next time i see them ard. they sell it on d streets here in malaysia.

that's pretty gnarly! how often do they need to feed, and what knid of setup do you have it in? i'd like to see a more recent pic of it now that it has some size to it. we have species here in KS that live mainly on turtles. ive heard some african species get to be 6 feet long that would be a trip. do you have to pull it off, or does it release on its own?



John

It releases on it's own but it takes a while I just put it to feed after work. They said that they're amphibious but i had bad luck with half water half soil so I just keep them in bottled water and changed it weekly. THey seem more lively that way. Some weeks i give them more water to swim in and other just enough to cover them. I'll post a recent picture when I get home tonight pretty cool pet actually and you only need to feed it like twice a year

pandinus wrote:

that's pretty gnarly! how often do they need to feed, and what kind of setup do you have it in? i'd like to see a more recent pic of it now that it has some size to it. we have species here in KS that live mainly on turtles. ive heard some african species get to be 6 feet long that would be a trip. do you have to pull it off, or does it release on its own?

more info on this link..

http://usahawanlintahmelaka.blogspot.com/

Abyss...whoa dude...whoa...

I'm intrigued, but I don't think I'm ready for that. It does look cool.