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You know they have little creatures which can live in your fish tank and eat the green gook off the glass. This is the same concept only in a different setting. The beasties themselves could be microscopic but I think it would be even cooler if they were visible and you could see little creatures crawling
all over the inside of your shower and eating the scum. Maybe even leech-sized creatures to scare the bejesus out of visiting relatives.
(?) Slugs Down Under
http://www.newscien...eatures_224948.html
Baked! by a naturalist, of course. [hello_c, Feb 23 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Imaginary Nematodes
http://nematode.unl.edu/imagine.htm
I haven't tried a wetting bottle filled with nematodes in my shower, yet. [reensure, Feb 23 2001]
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We have immune systems. Skin flakes and grease do not. After reading the link, I'm almost tempted to try the slugs... |
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I always wanted an organism that would eat dust and emit a pleasant ambient light. |
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Ah, but maybe it only snacks on dust, and gets the bulk of
its energy elsewhere. |
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Since maggots will only eat dead flesh (so they won't eat
you) a shower-slug-maggot might not be a bad idea. What
ever it is it needs to be big (about the size of my hand) so
I can find it and move it out of the way while I'm washing.
Maybe it's skin could extrude a soapy residue so you
didn't have to buy soap! |
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You could do away with the shower altogether and let it feed off you directly while you sleep or give television news reports. |
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Maggots have been known to infest open sores or wounds
on a person's body, and can in fact sometimes used on
purpose to clean out a wound. So while the maggots
wouldn't eat your living flesh, this could have some
unintended and rather unwanted consequences. |
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Shower Scum? Are they like Trailer Trash, but with smaller living quarters?
hello_c: Great link! It almost makes you want to have one as a pet. Perhaps you could put it on a leash and take it for walks. |
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there's a product caled "Quick n brite" that is enzyme based, which actually does eat away shower scum, and grease and such. it's usually seen in an infomercial on tv, and it's worth buying. |
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This idea has the same catch most of the other "living organisms cleaning for us" ideas carry. These things would scare the hell out of me. I'd spend the entire shower with my eye on the scum-sucking blob on the wall, and this innate fear that as soon as I turn my back I'm going to be devoured by my own cleaning pet would possibly keep me out of the shower entirely. Problem solved, I guess. Or I would have to buy another pet (dog, some sort of small, trained rodent) to keep an eye on my cleaning slugs for me and devour them if they get a bit greedy. This could create an a new market entirely. |
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How do you keep these things in the shower and not crawling about in the house? Perimeter Keeping Shocking Fence Organisms!!! |
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