to fancy having a fish pedicure?

[Icelollycraving]

I do not like fish near me in the sea but I really fancy those little buggers nibbling off my dead skin. It disgusts me & intrigues me in equal measures! Be nice to get silky tootsies for once!

In some Turkish Spas they do whole body "nibbling" for psoriasis - ichthyotherapy

First there we had gold clown necklaces, then tramp stamps, now fish feet.

Resist the Chav within, people! Ped egg all the way!

There's one in our local shopping centre and the water always looks rather cloudy. I'm sure they have to clean the tanks out rigorously but I think I would prefer to be the first appointment of the day rather than the last!

I think the cruelty aspect is more to do with them being kept in very overcrowded tanks, and often moved around a lot - ie the ones on stalls in shopping centres, many fish die during transportation. As well as the hygeine issues. I think its a fad which will go away in time.Not good.

Oh look, it's fake BOF.

is there a fake bof? call trading standards!!

There is and it's on this thread.

Even though fake BOF has been asked nicely to changer several thousand times it refuses. What a strange thing to do.

Who is BOF and Boff? Don't get the relevance?

I don't think fish manicures are hygienic.. mind you I got a verucca after going to a manicure salon thing and never had one before and it has not gone for 2 years because of pregnancy and bfing so I need a solution for it.....

Anna - BOF is BitOfFun who has been on MN for ever, so is fairly well-known and recognised.

BOff is someone else who has apparently chosen a near-identical name, presumably just to confuse/annoy, and has resisted all polite requests to change it to something less misleading.

Fishy, but nothing to do with fish.

As a bit of an aside, I can remember reading about these in the Sunday Times' Style magazine years ago. The type of magazine that's all £800 pound dresses and stories about someone's latest half a mil house revamp? At the time they were talking about it as if it were the height of luxury and the latest thing in expensive Spas..and now you can get them for £15 a pop in a shop in Manchester city centre :o

Oh Ok Cointreau - to be honest I'm not up to date with the mn mafia.

Anna - very wise of you!

Do they eat hard skin off verruccas ?

Ripeberry - they do! Better value than the expensive chiropodist I went to sort them! I felt sorry for the fish but they looked happy enough (if a fish can look happy) and my feet felt so smooth after.

what the hell is a verruca?

a contagious wart - so the fish place should not really accept people with verruccas!

The fish place near me has foot showers to wash your feet before hand. They don't let you have it if you have fake tan on as it kills the fish and they try to look after them as they cost £7 per fish. The boy who worked there also said there is a filter system which filters the water a few tim,es per hour.

Wouldn't have it done though!!

B0ff - you really are irritating.

i would like to try this, but i cant stand my feet being massaged/touched/pedicure etc

so would i like nibbling fish?

I've had it done twice, i LOVED it and would probably get it done again.

MrsDrOwenHunt - i love your name

oh a plantar wart

I've had it twice too.

My feet are REALLY sensitive/ticklish and the first time I went, I had a 15 minute session and found it truly excruciating - not in a painful way, but ticklish. Still went back because the effects were so good!!! And, guess what, my feet calmed much quicker the second time. Looking forward to the next one - gonna go for 35 minutes next time. And it's less than £10 with a Forces discount. Win win!!!

thankyou cookie, i just love my dh!!!!

So, do they examine your feet all over before you put them in the tank, or do they just take your word for it that you don't have any verrucas etc?