This is crazy stuff

[CKY_Alliance]

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/2-29-2004-51087.asp

wow if those ever make it to American waters im never leaving land....

[trevorjk]

wow!

untill i see more proof of these said fish, this seams a little to far fetched... even for me

[billybob_81067]

Weren't these fish in that movie Anaconda???

IIRC

[MarkM]

The way it has been described about going into the anus is a little different to how I had heard the story but this was around a long time before the internet and descibed as swimming up the urine stream of a man and lodging that way, I am pretty sure it was descibed in an information film shown when I was at school.
Try snopes if you think it isn't right....I did before I posted this and nothing came back.

[MarkM]

http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/catfish/candiru.html

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8811

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000519.html this one is a little sceptical but read it and it will make you worried enough to avoid taking a leak in the Amazon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Vandellia_cirrhosa.html

Too much similar info about for this to be a tale of fiction.

[sbpyro]

wow if those ever make it to American waters im never leaving land....

The blood feeding has led to it earning the moniker: the vampire fish of Brazil.
Technically it is in American waters. South America.

[Skittle]

Theyre totally real, saw the on the discovery channel... you cant really see the coming theyre so small. They swim up your urethra.

[CKY_Alliance]

Thanks markm for posting pics...i almost did last night but was too lazy...ye im staying away from south america..

i think the thing in andaconda was a wasp..because it got lodged in his neck..

[master_alexander]

ohohoh!!!

this is the fish they were talking about in the movie walking tall! (i think..)

with the rock.. ya know..

[oneworld]

mmm this is just like the iracongi jelly fish.. the size of your fingernail.. like one sting and your gone..

[Mr.Danger]

this is the fish they were talking about in the movie walking tall! (i think..)

Close....it was in The Rundown.