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[AcidDriver]

This is just not my day...

When I was trying to remove a nudi from my button polyp colony, i punctured one of the colonies and it started to secrete mucus. Two things happened:

1) I was affected by the mucus. Started to not feel my hand and whatever metal I touched felt like a sting. Started to breath heavily but that is over.

2) I panicked and put the coral back in my tank. Was that the right thing to do, or should I have quarantined it. The quarantine will have to be a bucket. Will mucus kill everything

Need help

 

[killingseed]

run carbon, i will be the tank will be fine. how big is the tank?

 

[AcidDriver]

the tank is a 25 gallon, thkx for your help. i put in carbon right now

 

[TKByrnes]

what other corals do you have? I have all zoa's so i dont have to worry about the toxins in my tank. I fragged just about every zoa colony I have last night and everything was fine. It didnt bother my fish or anything.

How are you feeling now? Still feeling funny?

 

[AcidDriver]

i have ricordea and mushrooms in my tank, but i am now running carbon and skimmer.


thanks for asking, my feeling came back, but i still have that reversal of sensations(i.e hot feels cold and vice versa), this experience sure taught me to wear gloves with whatever has to do with corals.

 

[rsteagall]

Which button polyps were they? Got a pic?

I have some of these:

ANYTIME I touch these my fingers feel slimy and I immediately go wash them with soap. These are the only zoos that I've gotten sick off of. I didn't have any of your symptoms, but I have gotten very nauseous multiple times off of these.

 

[geoxman]

I got that feeling one time a long time ago, the sick feeling, from fragging those buttons. If I do it now it will make my hands itch and the next day some skin will peel back, I never had a loss of feeling though. I am glad you are better now. Is your skin a little chaffed looking today?

 

[AcidDriver]

yea, they are regular button polyps.

Yea my two fingers are a tad chaffed. I think that I lost my zoanthids though. The polyps are still closed, and molting like crazy. Sounds like they are going to "melt" as some might say.

 

[AcidDriver]

 

[ridinfast03]

I just recently read about the dangers of that mucus and I have been in this hobby now for about 5 years. Funny thing is that I used to touch them all the time for fun and never have felt a thing. Now I am scared too! Haha.
On another note I have had a carpet anemone stick to my arm and not felt any sting either. I dunno

 

[angry.clownfish]

Glad you're feeling better.
I've never gotten sick by handling any polyps. I never wear gloves either but I make sure I take extra care. I did have an incident with a lion fish once, its toxins got into the water, got my clowns really sick and when I had my hand in the tank trying to catch them, it made my hand sting, like a thousand needles poking at it.

 

[Myrddraal]

Take a look at these two threads:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=605364

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158730

Palytoxin is nasty stuff.