Zoos are very toxic!!
 

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=158663

This is a sad story and a good warning about zoos and how dangerous they can be.

hehe. Yes, they can be. We talked about that thread 2 years ago.

http://www.canreef.com/phpBB2/viewto...ight=toxic+dog

:lol:

Indeed Sam, and I have fragged about 100 zoanthids since that time, and have never had a problem. :eek:

I'm still caustious when fragging zoos or even mushrooms.I've been squirted by shrooms once or twice but luckly not the zoos.I think any time we have our hands in the tank whether its moving corals or just general maintaince,it still important to wash your hands after.Even minor scratches can become irrittated and itchy.

had me a nasty experience with a wasp sting and zoo toxin last summer. Been very cautious since then.

Bob, I'm guessing there would only be a problem if you eat them or get them in your bloodstream.

nuts!! that sucks..now who wants to buy my zoanthids =o) got lots of them

or if the juice squirts you in the eyes, or you get it on your hands then get it in your mouth while wiping lips.

Steve

What about if you have a cut on your finger or somthing and get squirted. How can some fish eats them if there so toxic?

This from an extremely good article by Eric Borneman in the reefs.org library. I can't connect to their site tonite, but can come up with a www.reefs.org/library/aquarium_net/0198/0198_1.html+palytoxin+in+zoanthids&hl=en&lr=lang_e n]cached version[/url]
from a google search.

Organisms have a variety of adaptations for dealing with potentially toxic foodstuffs. Just because it's harmful to one species, genus, family, order, etc. doesn't mean it will be harmful to others, and of course the opposite is often the case as well.

yes, head to the hospital.

Remember if you do have a problem and go to a hospital everyone should also have a piece of paper with the name of this toxin on it to tell the staff. it will make it much easier for them to properly treat it and the out come will be better for you the faster it is treated.

the general toxin name is ichthyotoxin of which there are a few variations. from yellow sun polyps you get palytoxin and a close relative of the giant sum polyp was used by Hawaiian worriers to tip there Spears in for mortal combat. there is a good section on this toxin in Eric Bornman's coral book.

Steve

I can vouch for this story... the day of Bev's party I bought some zoos when I got home I put them in the tank then went out for the evening. I went to bed around 11:30, I awoke about 1:30 with uncontrollable shaking and bad nausea. After a shower didn't help me the wife took me to the emergency room, after gravol, four bags of IV and numerous test and x-rays their best guess was a slight case of pneumonia. After getting out at 6:00 am I slept till noon and I was perfectly fine :confused: So to this day we are not really sure what is was we think it was the zoos. It wasn't until a few days after the fact that I found out zoos are toxic so now I do everything with gloves on :biggrin:

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i have noticed that they are very toxic to other corals as well. The othe day I noticed one of my green cany canes fell over on to a zoo colony. When I picked up the candt coral it was half dead. They couldn't have been touching each other for only a couple of hours but it was enough that the candy coral's skeleton was exposed.

Just something from a website

:eek: Yep I remember that thread, shortly after I removed all Zoo's in my reef and even my GSP too :exclaim:

It's a good thing when these articles get recycled though, gotta keep the newbies informed too :biggrin: