Are all fish perverts or just dirty dirty eels**

In My Humble Opinion
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First, I already know that many eels, especially morays, are shy and retiring, and that many of them are hermaphrodites, either changing gender during development or having more than one gender at the same time.

But, this question is about the few fish who aren’t hermaphrodites, who nonetheless are perverts, splooging their roe everywhere.

Are these fish usually unattractive? Everyone talks about how eels are hot and divers always talk about them.

Fish scientists portray eels as sexy too.

But guppies are never talked about or noticed, although there are more eel species and fewer species of guppy, even though guppiesare perverts too*.

Is this because guppies are boring little fish named after a civil engineer? Are guppies not able to be interesting because they aren’t sinuous slinky hermaphrodites?

  • In these citations, ‘coercion’ means exactly what it sounds like. ‘Sneaking’ is dashing out to ‘coerce’ a female before getting eaten. There are more cites, but I can’t get the pdfs to link. Sorry. If you have a further interest in guppy science, PM me. I realize that these citations are not as good as ‘I met a dirty eel in a nightclub’, but there you go.

** Just in case you have no clue what the hell I’m talking about, here are the [thread=647779] original thead [/thread] and the [thread=647851] pit thread [/thread]

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“Sneaky mating” has to be one of the best phrases to worked into a scientific paper. And

has to be one of the best sentences in to legitimately work into a Wikipedia article.

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Nothing to add to this discussion. I just wanted Attack from the third dimension to know that I had read it.

4

Well, now I’m busted.

5

On another board I read “I read this” = “LOL”

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Skip to the eels…

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Never mind, just remembered about the whole Ctrl+F thing.

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When you’re down by the sea
And an eel bites your knee
That’s a moray!

(I would like to claim authorship, but I stole it from teh interwebs.)

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[Insert joke about blow fish]

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She doesn’t get eaten by the eels at this time…

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Take that back! The last thing we need is something else that means “LOL”!

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I had no idea fish rape was such an epidemic. Someone contact PETA ASAP!

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You think you’ve got it bad? I live in the land of lesbian lizards. Talk about man-bashing–these things don’t even have males at all!