When you go to the spa, instead of having a human being touching your toes, you put your clean and washed feet into a floor level fish tank filled with up to about 150 of these tiny little fish. They proceed to nibble away at all the dead skin on your feet. The fish, called Garra Rufa, are tiny little minnow carp fish originally from Turkey. In fact, the fish pedicure has been very popular in Japan and other Far Eastern countries for years.
It may even be better than a trained pedicurist could do in the same time. This is especially true as exfoliate equipment like pumice stones and files can’t always get to all your stubborn areas, while these little fish are able to nibble everywhere, even in those hard to reach places like between your toes.