Touched my zoas!!!

[Stepho725]

I accidentally brushed my zoa frag. I dont feel anything. Nothing is stinging. Am i gonna be ok?? Freaking out here.

 

[Scooter902]

You likely won't make it. Lol

Why are you even worried. You will be fine.

 

[Stepho725]

Because ppl talk about the poly toxins

 

[knap_123]

If you washed your hands good your ok.

 

[galoot]

Still alive? ;-)

 

[STsONpERs]

They are no where near as deadly as you must have in your mind.

If you were squeezing them into your mouth you might want to worry but touching, moving, holding, grabbing ect. you will have no worries.

This made me laugh though, thank you lol

 

[AliciaP]

Sorry for laughing, but I got a chuckle out of that. Don't cook them, if you are propagating them, wear safety glasses and don't boil a rock with zoas or palys on it. Otherwise, a brush against them is not likely to harm you at all.

 

[s_kelley]

I'd be more worried about having an open cut and getting one of those crazy infections we all hear of. Touching them is no big deal but as it says above you have to like ingest or get that stuff into your system some other way for it to do anything

 

[larcomak11]

is this for real? haha i've touched all my zoas at one point or another on accident, never really thought anything of it and i'm fine......can't say i've ever heard of it but im semi new in the hobby....

 

[Stepho725]

Well thanks everyone for laughing at me!!! Lol no really, thanks for your help. Im fine. I just tend to catastrophize these types of things before reading up on the facts!

 

[650-IS350]

i only would worry if you were fragging hawaiian moon polyps with open bleeding cuts in your hands... as those have one of the most potent toxins... If they got into your blood system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin

 

[Scooter902]

I wouldn't eat them either. . Glad your OK.