Stung by my hammer coral ( Im going to live right)

[FishChum]

Was cleaning some algae and brushed my hand against my hammer coral. I think it stung me?

[tlo]

I have been stung by my frogspawn b/f which is in the same family. It left little mosquito bite welts. It was the most intense itching you can imagine that lasted about 2 weeks.

[Concept]

It is highly unlikely that you will be online tomorrow.:)

[cliff717]

i have been stung by mine a couple of times. hit harder than anything in my tank but marks left in a couple of days and all is good.

[jackiechandc]

That's nothing. Check out my post on my Pink Frogspawn Attack:

http://www.aquariumpros.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=37290&highlight=vicious+coral+attack

I have a small scar now where it stung even to this day. One day, I will have my revenge:D

Wei

[EWANHO]

you will live

was stung for the first time a few days ago by my pink tipped frogspawn on the middle finger. @@#!!! for sure. It itched, then tore, then bled, now scarred a little. looks like flesh eating disease. too a needle and poked around inside for a bit just in case some liquid was building up in there. now it feels less painful. lost some sensitivity. should take a few weeks to heal. will invest in a pair of plastic gloves seeing as i may need the other fingers to work. good luck with yours.

[Sea MunnKey]

..... One day, I will have my revenge:D

Wei

Hey Wei,

Is the Pink froggie still around??? :D

Paul

[jackiechandc]

Hey Wei,

Is the Pink froggie still around??? :D

Paul


Yep, still in my tank. Never touched it again since:)

[Csister2002]

Frog spawns have never seen to hurt me, Pink Tip Anemone's on the other hand! I got stung by one and it tore off a small piece of my skin, still got a scar on my knuckle!

[Rodgec1]

Comon Guys or gals............looks like a lot of exaggeration here. These are little corals that WE plucked out of the ocean so that WE could show-off to our family and friends. Some of the terms I read here are unbelieveable (Tore of a piece of my skin)..........(flesh eating disease).......... comon guys............these things are plucked from the ocean by un-suited snorkellers and free divers. They DO NOT wear any protection at all. All it is that, your bodies do not have enough of resistance to these venoms and react differently. We can call them stings or bites but NOT in most cases life endangering. After getting stung a couple of times, your body will become immune to it. Just don't be a baby and scratch it like an animal, but instead, put some medicated lotion on it and it will go away in a couple of days.
If one is going to moan and cry about little stings, then I don't think this hobby is the right one for you. Not trying to say I am a big hero who is invincible, but take care guys as the coral is only trying to protect itself and if a little fish can survive, so can you.

[jennyfish]

Comon Guys or gals............looks like a lot of exaggeration here. These are little corals that WE plucked out of the ocean so that WE could show-off to our family and friends. Some of the terms I read here are unbelieveable (Tore of a piece of my skin)..........(flesh eating disease).......... comon guys............these things are plucked from the ocean by un-suited snorkellers and free divers. They DO NOT wear any protection at all. All it is that, your bodies do not have enough of resistance to these venoms and react differently. We can call them stings or bites but NOT in most cases life endangering. After getting stung a couple of times, your body will become immune to it. Just don't be a baby and scratch it like an animal, but instead, put some medicated lotion on it and it will go away in a couple of days.
If one is going to moan and cry about little stings, then I don't think this hobby is the right one for you. Not trying to say I am a big hero who is invincible, but take care guys as the coral is only trying to protect itself and if a little fish can survive, so can you.


I dont think you are aware of how much bacteria can be in the slime of a coral , Many corals carry toxins that we still are not fully known to us . I know someone who spent 2 months in the hospital and went through rehab due to zoanthid toxins . We really dont what defenses corals have , bacterias in there slime , stings bites etc. So its alwas safe practice to wear gloves , I wouldnt take it quite so lightley or one day you may find out the hard way.

[deeznutz]

Pussy cat!

[jennyfish]

Pussy cat!


who?

[ruffyruff]

meow

[deeznutz]

The thread starter. lol:hihi:

[jennyfish]

The thread starter. lol:hihi:
lol ok , but ya i wouldnt worry about a hammer sting but there really are corals out there that can seriously F#%* you up! dont belive me , rub a purple death paly on an open wound:D

[vaporize]

frankly i can't believe it either :) I touch corals and anemones daily ......

the only thing that I will really advise not to touch is hell-fire anemone.... it really burns like hell - thanks to the stupid guy who put it with bubbletips

[FishChum]

Pussy cat!
:giggle: Funny

[thejoe]

i have touched every coral you can think of and nothing has happend. in fact that is the best way to tell if an anemone is healthy it should be slightly sticky. i constantly have my hands in the tank with no gloves or anything with cuts on my hand. i do not think that the small amount of toxins say a whole tank of zoos is enough to kill you. the only thing that i won't go near is the hell fire. i touched one by accedent once and you get like little hairs in your skin that burn for days then you get a rash for a few weeks. i am only 15 and did alot of these things with out any knowledge of the corals that i was keeping but know i have read and read and read about the toxic abilities of corals( so i did not touch a hell fire again) and i see nothing wrong with touching corals. i don't want this theard to get out of hand and start scarying people out of keeping corals that they now think of as death machines. i mean in places like pakistan and similar places the locals go right out to the ocean and pick zoas as food. they see it as foriging not playing russian rulette.

[jennyfish]

i have touched every coral you can think of and nothing has happend. in fact that is the best way to tell if an anemone is healthy it should be slightly sticky. i constantly have my hands in the tank with no gloves or anything with cuts on my hand. i do not think that the small amount of toxins say a whole tank of zoos is enough to kill you. the only thing that i won't go near is the hell fire. i touched one by accedent once and you get like little hairs in your skin that burn for days then you get a rash for a few weeks. i am only 15 and did alot of these things with out any knowledge of the corals that i was keeping but know i have read and read and read about the toxic abilities of corals( so i did not touch a hell fire again) and i see nothing wrong with touching corals. i don't want this theard to get out of hand and start scarying people out of keeping corals that they now think of as death machines. i mean in places like pakistan and similar places the locals go right out to the ocean and pick zoas as food. they see it as foriging not playing russian rulette.


Hey the joe come by my place i wanna see you eat a purple death paly!
Also if you have anylink to people eating zoanthids i would love to see that
I know someone who tried to kill a colony of brown zoas by dumping boiling water on them , he inhalled the toxins in a steam form and was on a respirator keeping him alive for 3 weeks .Look it up the thread is on a few forums

[SanJuan]

i mean in places like pakistan and similar places the locals go right out to the ocean and pick zoas as food. they see it as foriging not playing russian rulette.

Seriously? I never knew that. I am going to try every flavor in my tank, I will let you know how they taste. Starting with the purple death. :D

[thejoe]

Seriously? I never knew that. I am going to try every flavor in my tank, I will let you know how they taste. Starting with the purple death. :D

Purple death is just a name. just because they are have the word death in them does not mean they are going to kill you. do you think the red people eater polyps are going to come and swallow you up while you sleep. you cannot take a corals name leterally. you are not going to try to p drive a nail with your "hammer coral" now are you. they are just names. i will try and dig up the article that i read and the movie showing poor people from pakistan eating different corals.

[SanJuan]

do you think the red people eater polyps are going to come and swallow you up while you sleep.

That ain't cool man, my dog was eaten by a RPE last year while I was asleep.

[thejoe]

That ain't cool man, my dog was eaten by a RPE last year while I was asleep.

lol. and i just got hi on some phyicadelics just the other day.

[SanJuan]

lol. and i just got hi on some phyicadelics just the other day.

From a psychedelic Mandarin?

[thejoe]

here http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp214/tress2k4/IMG_9018.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/f215/amazing-rainbow-palys-lps-24110.html&usg=__WIpuh_FeFc4MtLskrHAVFakxePU=&h=400&w=600&sz=216&hl=en&start=9&sig2=-TNWC5iTUNNgU9pIFg0BAQ&tbnid=8Z2xSN2oswIvfM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphycadelic%2Bzoa%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&ei=8XEgS4DaONeJnAfntLzWDQ

now u can try them.

[SanJuan]

Thanks, but I do not like to get high anymore, Now, I would rather hangout with the Hassel.

http://zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=3965


Seriously though, I would not recommend eating anything in your tank, especially zoanthids. Also, I caution everyone to be care when handling corals. Some do sting,
and you never know what reaction your body will have.

[Rodgec1]

Ha ha ha....... TheJoe is a funny man. I am originally from Pakistan and NO we don't eat zoos. I have eaten Parrotfish and Yellowtail Damsels but not zoos or any other coral for that matter. The eating of those fish was common among the local fishermen and nobody throught twice about it. I would still eat parrot but NOT damsels.

BTW, I do wear gloves each time I put my hand in the tank but while I am fishing...... no sireeee Bob. We used to catch a fish that was locally known as the SAFI. It is from the same species as the Foxface Rabbitfish i.e. it would change colours when frightened
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sUXK4DYdNew/2.jpg . Here is a shot of one. Now this fish too has very very poisonous spines and if you got poked by it, you would feel some wicked pain i.e. you would feel numb on that part of your body. But after a few pokes each fishing season, your body got used to it and it was just another poke.

[Sea MunnKey]

:but: NOTHING is edible from our closed system tank(s) ... PERIOD!!! All the "synthetic" liquid supplements & additives are meant strictly for our reef livestocks survivability and not for human consumption.

Paul

[Csister2002]

Comon Guys or gals............looks like a lot of exaggeration here. These are little corals that WE plucked out of the ocean so that WE could show-off to our family and friends. Some of the terms I read here are unbelieveable (Tore of a piece of my skin)..........(flesh eating disease).......... comon guys............these things are plucked from the ocean by un-suited snorkellers and free divers. They DO NOT wear any protection at all. All it is that, your bodies do not have enough of resistance to these venoms and react differently. We can call them stings or bites but NOT in most cases life endangering. After getting stung a couple of times, your body will become immune to it. Just don't be a baby and scratch it like an animal, but instead, put some medicated lotion on it and it will go away in a couple of days.
If one is going to moan and cry about little stings, then I don't think this hobby is the right one for you. Not trying to say I am a big hero who is invincible, but take care guys as the coral is only trying to protect itself and if a little fish can survive, so can you.

I think you completely misunderstood the intent of the thread, or maybe I did, it was never to cry or moan, but was to share our experiences. Anemones and corals alike sting, so chances are people have been stung by them! However it is very easy to have different experiences from similar corals for a number of reasons. First off you are correct people have different tollerences for them, and secoundly the animal has the ability to release only certain amounts of the toxin. So if a coral releases a much larger quantity of the toxin it will in turn do much more damage. Interestingly enough anemone toxins actually share the same receptors as scorpian venum. And also you seem to give the impression that this hobby is completely safe yet we continue to keep animals that could easily damage us. Like I said, I never intended to come off as complaining, but simply sharing.

[Sea MunnKey]

:iagree: ... as most of us are immune to certain particular reef specimen be it corals, fish or LR's (especially me ... :hihi:). Nothing really affects me except when I'm manually moving LR's around in my tank and I always end up with really bad sharp prickly stings embedded all around my finger tips. It'll become painfully swollen and very, very itchy which ends up inflamed and very sore and red thereafter at least ... for the next couple weeks!!!

Paul

[gnarlyswine]

Ive never had stings from handling any euphyllia or related coreals, bubble or carpet anemones, I think its more a case of an adverse reaction / increased sensitivity in some individuals than potency of sting. Where I have had constant hassle is bristleworms - I was actually shutting down my tank two weeks ago and they had their final attack on me. I wont miss them.

[Rodgec1]

Bottom line...........wear gloves. Paul, if you want to avoid the itch, boil fingers in vinegar. You won't feel them or the itch anymore...... ha ha.:hihi:. Have fun in the hobby folks and if it feels like it is gonna hurt you, then take a step back and admire your fellow reefer's tank. someday those stings will make great stories for the grandkids.
:wavehand:bye for now.
CR.

[Sea MunnKey]

Bottom line...........wear gloves. Paul, if you want to avoid the itch, boil fingers in vinegar.

Frankly I can't work with gloves on ... PERIOD!! I need to feel the nooks and crevices to fit the LR's in-between during aquascaping. Plus I don't wanna knock any corals off as you usually can't feel anything when your gloves are around your arms ... IMHO. I've got too many "ledges and cliffs" to mess around with ... :D

I've tried soaking, dipping, rinsing fingers in vinegar ... nope it doesn't work on my fingers at all :giggle:.

Paul

[vaporize]

Where I have had constant hassle is bristleworms - I was actually shutting down my tank two weeks ago and they had their final attack on me. I wont miss them.

1000% agreed, I hate bristle worms, need to find ways to get rid of them. They always hit you when you least expected them, like moving corals or under a rock. I too have developed hyper-sensitivity to bristleworm stings... like the area will go numb for up to 3 weeks and itchy and have small water bubbles too.....

The only thing I find useful in killing them is a spiny lobster ... they are great but they grow big FAST... hard to find smaller specimens anywhere. I once had one in my display tank and it ate all the bristleworms, the tank was clear of bristleworm for 2 years (until it died and new sources introduced). Boxing shrimp, arrow crab and such ... will eat them but if they have another choice of food, they would not touch them. Spiny lobster eat bristle worms like no tomorrow.