Porcipine belly cut open

[JustinReef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13229278#post13229278 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pufferpunk
Very odd... I have trouble cutting through a small puffer's skin with a razorblade for an autopsy.

I tried once with a greenspotted puffer that had died with a strange lump in its belly and I agree, it was VERY hard and I used a brand new blade.

 

[LisaD]

you don't think they could be more likely to have the skin split when it's inflated?

something gouged/punctured the skin on my dogface puffer. fortunately, it seems to have made a complete recovery after being stressed for about a week. I hadn't seen any aggression, but was guessing it could be the Brazilian dragon moray or the porc...

 

[Pufferpunk]

I have read where a puffer ate so much it split open, more than once. The guy was laughing about it.

 

[predator 1]

I'm not sure that I have my facts right here, but surely if a Puffer received a deep laceration, it would release "Tetrodotoxin" into the water column! Or am I wrong??

 

[LisaD]

I don't think so, unless the liver was damaged? My understanding is that they are poisonous to eat, but they don't release toxins like boxfish and cowfish.

 

[wickedfish]

From reading your post. It wasant any of the fish you listed. Not even the D.F. can cut it all the way down like that. Most likely it got spooked and hit the corner of the live rock.

 

[T-T-Trigger]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13236721#post13236721 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by predator 1
I'm not sure that I have my facts right here, but surely if a Puffer received a deep laceration, it would release "Tetrodotoxin" into the water column! Or am I wrong??

no this would not happen.

you could cut open the belly of a lionfish, pufferfish, rabbitfish, stonefish, etc... and not have a toxin 'in the water column' problem.


pufferfishes kept in your aquarium don't have a natural diet and so don't acquire the necessary nasties that produce the toxin via their regular diet. Over a period of time (no idea how long) removed from they wild and fed a controlled diet, they would be perfectly safe to eat.

 

[predator 1]

Thanks for the education T-T. That explains why "Takifugu" has been successfully farmed in Japan "Tetrodotoxin" free. They (the fish) are simply divorced from there natural diet.

 

[val1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13236854#post13236854 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wickedfish
From reading your post. It wasant any of the fish you listed. Not even the D.F. can cut it all the way down like that. Most likely it got spooked and hit the corner of the live rock.

I still don't think it was the live rock, the cut was too straight and too long for that IMO.

 

[val1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13239783#post13239783 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by predator 1
Thanks for the education T-T. That explains why "Takifugu" has been successfully farmed in Japan "Tetrodotoxin" free. They (the fish) are simply divorced from there natural diet.

Sushi does sound really good right now.
(Sorry Spike need my fix!)

 

[Mike5252]

pufferfishes kept in your aquarium don't have a natural diet and so don't acquire the necessary nasties that produce the toxin via their regular diet. Over a period of time (no idea how long) removed from they wild and fed a controlled diet, they would be perfectly safe to eat.

I didn't know that. I guess it makes sense though. Next time my puffer bites my finger while I'm cleaning the tank, maybe he'll get a taste of his own medicine!

I guess you wouldn't have to 'salt' the meat. :lol:

 

[cullens089]

i have a porky and he inflated in front of a power head and got blown around my tank and when he was close to my rock he deflated quickly.


idk if that helps or not

 

[waterfaller1]

My money is on the tang's scalpel, they are like razor blades.