Yet Another Warning

reefwars · #1 10-25-2011, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by MarkoD

Then do a test and prove him wrong. Rub zoas all over your skin and then lick a few. See if nothing happens

now thats good advice and should be a sticky;p

Myka · #2 10-25-2011, 04:11 PM

Most LPS corals cause my hands/fingers to go numb/tingly and slightly swollen. Particularly Euphyllia sp and the various brain corals. Most Plays will do this to me as well, but most Zoas don't (regardless of color). In fact, if I spend an hour or more messing around in the tank (stacking rock, etc) my hands/fingers will go numb/tingly and fairly swollen and will actually cause me a slight bit of asthma. The only time I ever wear gloves is when I am handling live rock at an LFS. I do wear safety glass anytime I am fragging though as I think a shot of plain ole saltwater to the eye would be irritating enough, let alone a shot of slimy coral saltwater.

HaZRaTTy · #3 10-25-2011, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

now thats good advice and should be a sticky;p

+1

jorjef · #4 10-25-2011, 07:49 PM

What a car wreck, I couldn't stop reading even thou I knew I should have after the second post! . After finishing this I feel like removing my eye balls for a long soak in iodine after which I would return them to their sockets with little cocktail weinie forks and hope for a passing solar eclipse........

Aquattro · #5 10-25-2011, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jorjef

What a car wreck, I couldn't stop reading even thou I knew I should have after the second post! . After finishing this I feel like removing my eye balls for a long soak in iodine after which I would return them to their sockets with little cocktail weinie forks and hope for a passing solar eclipse........

Couldn't have said it better myself

Oh, don't handle eyeballs without gloves....just sayin'

nozwal · #6 10-25-2011, 08:13 PM

i dunno why daniella has to attack the TC, he is basically just saying be careful when handling zoas or other corals. yes he could be wrong on his assumptions of his arm being numb cuz of the zoas, but all hes doing is warning us to becareful. thats the message is he trying to tell us. wear gloves and dont risk injuries . so i dont kno.....attacking someone that is trying to help us just makes u look like a XXXXXX

daniella3d · #7 10-25-2011, 08:55 PM

Geeez, I did not attack anyone. Where do you see name calling? anything offensive? If there is then I apologize as I did not meant to make it a personnal attack. I am just tired of seing people jump to such conclusion without even knowing or verifying this before they post it.

It's not the part that he's saying wear gloves that bother me, that's a good advise, it's the blaming something on zoanthids that could be totally unreleated. Why does it bother me? because it is hard enough to get some good looking zoanthids in this country and if people start to spread fear like that then it might get even harder to find good zoanthids in the future. It has already hapened in a local store where I live so they don't sell zoanthids just because of these.

BTW, there is a risk of being poisonned by palytoxin by eating seafood and that risk is probably greater than being poisoned by handling zoanthids while fragging. The source of palytoxin is a symbiotic dinoflagellate which lives in corals.

And if anyone interested...a person even tried to commit suicide with palytoxin... If only he had knew that all he had to do was buy some zoanthids and eat them....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...es-affair.html

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Originally Posted by nozwal

i dunno why daniella has to attack the TC, he is basically just saying be careful when handling zoas or other corals. yes he could be wrong on his assumptions of his arm being numb cuz of the zoas, but all hes doing is warning us to becareful. thats the message is he trying to tell us. wear gloves and dont risk injuries . so i dont kno.....attacking someone that is trying to help us just makes u look like a douche