Well, Monday night didn't go my way.
After feeding Wallace earlier in the evening, I decided to change his water due to the amount of kicked up debris/substrate that landed his bowl post strike.
He was quite fired up when I opened his door but I expected that. I tapped him with the hook and he stopped moving and tracking me. I should have know better and made sure he was going the other direction before reaching in.
As I got my right hand on the bowl, he refocused on me and tagged my left hand while it was on the way in.
He's not a "baby" any more and is 8.5 to 9 feet long these days.
Here's the damage.
Wiped up and treated picture.
It did smart a bit but it was nothing like it could have been. He released immediately and I was thankful he did. If he'd decided to bite and wrap, I'd have worse looking wounds.
He did get me in the knuckle bone, and there was a fair amount of bruising.
After 2 days, I only notice mild irritation.
You can see he's got a decent sized mouth. He got my index finger, knuckles and made it to the ring finger.
I wasn't too bothered by the incident but certainly don't want it to happen again.
I had him out today and he was great.
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