Marine aquarium cautions

Hairytank · #1 12-20-2008, 05:54 PM

There seem to be three seperate health hazards that corals can cause...
1) Toxins from the coral- eg:Zoas
2) Stings from the coral caused by nematocysts- Hammer, fire (similar to jellyfish stings)
3) Infection from a cut from a coral

I wonder if the cure for the sting is the same as for jellyfish? The cure for the sting of a jellyfish is vinigar or urine. They also recommend you wash with salt water and not fresh as fresh will make it hurt more.

Hairytank · #2 12-20-2008, 06:00 PM

Oh and I forgot the fourth hazard of keeping corals...
My wife finding out how much money I have sunk into this already and will in the future....THIS may be the most painful of all the hazards..

Patrice · #3 12-20-2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Hairytank

Oh and I forgot the fourth hazard of keeping corals...
My wife finding out how much money I have sunk into this already and will in the future....THIS may be the most painful of all the hazards..

That can hit an aquarist really bad. I tried everything without succes. Maybe I should get a better job.

Boomboy · #4 12-20-2008, 09:43 PM

i must be very lucky ive handle all my corals by hand and even touch them on purpose sometimes, and nothing happened to me, but now i will definatly be more caution, anybody know of those white doctor gloves where to pick some up also what is the right kind to pick up.

MMAX · #5 12-20-2008, 09:49 PM

Get Nitrile gloves. Similar to plain latex gloves but stronger and designed to keep chemicals off your skin. Any automotive or safety supply store should have them.

StirCrazy · #6 12-21-2008, 12:59 AM

for bristle worm spines soak your hand in viniger for a while, it will desolve the spines.

Oh and the Urin for jelly fish stings, Mythbusters proved it false.

Steve

Hairytank · #7 12-21-2008, 01:10 AM

I love mythbusters it is such a great show! Thanks for the upadate.
I'll refrain from urinating on myself in the future...

fishoholic · #8 12-27-2008, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

for bristle worm spines soak your hand in vinegar for a while, it will dissolve the spines.

Oh and the Urine for jelly fish stings, Mythbusters proved it false.

Steve

Wish I had of read this yesterday, my boyfriend got two fingers full of bristle worm spins

FYI tweezers don't work to well.

As for the urine, I always wondered if it was really true or not. Thanks for the info.

Skimmerking · #9 12-27-2008, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

Oh and the Urin for jelly fish stings, Mythbusters proved it false.

Steve

See Steve it all started from you some one took it the wrong way like hairytank,...

Cujo#31 · #10 03-24-2014, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Hairytank

Oh and I forgot the fourth hazard of keeping corals...
My wife finding out how much money I have sunk into this already and will in the future....THIS may be the most painful of all the hazards..

OOOOHHHHH MAN! U SAID IT BROTHER! My wife has gone "wifezilla" on me a time or two.My only defense is there are far worse things I could be doing with my spare time and (lack of LMAO) spare cash