I wanted to cut my finger when I got stung by my lionfish. Soaked it in water which was as hot as I can tolerate for 2 hours. My finger is still bulging where I was stung and that was 3 months ago, and still tends to hurt from time to time.

I don't know much about lion fish, did you brush you hand past the fish or did the fish sting you?

My fault entirely. That lionfish is very timid, gets excited during feeding time but when it sees me reaching into the tank it avoids the side where I am working. During that time I didn't look into the tank to see where it was before I reached in.

another close call from palytoxin exposure:neutral:....heed the warnings people!

http://reeftools.com/live/forum/showthread.php?t=1593

Wow so glad I read this. Just ordered a bunch of zoas and I probably wouldn't have worn gloves until I saw this thread. Thanks guys for saving my butt once more

and more palytoxin experiences http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=88064

I once graced my hand across an Elegance coral...it touched my wrist. At first it felt nothing. Then my wrist started to hurt like it was cut and salt water touched it. So i took my arm out and washed my hands/arms like i normally do. After a short while i noticed this long cut along the wrist. It wasn't like deep enough for blood, but it gave me a scar for at least a year after. I think the scarring finally went away as the skin renew itself.

Not really an aquarium, but I got hit By a blue bottle in Australia....that was painful...very painful...

Wear a mask too if you're using a saw to cut. I use a Dremel with a diamond blade sometimes and I once got poisoned from inhaling the dust produced while fragging.

I've also been skewered(right through my finger, ouch) by a long spine urchin while cleaning a tank so WATCH what you're doing if you have one. I didn't realize it was in there and it was hiding under a black over flow against a black background. Thankfully I didn't get one of the poison spines.

I am often stung by Euphyllia. An orange hammer once stung the back of my wrist and it was very itchy and painful. It produced welts and then black scare marks after the welts went down. Those marks were there for several months and would frequently get itchy still.

I had my left hand paralyzed for just over 6 hrs when I handled 3 coral juries still out on which one it was but I can tell you it was excruciatingly painfull. I handled a Zoa, mushroom leather, red and green brain coral I treat all my coral with care because I never wanna go through that pain ever again