Zoas growing on tank side
- Thread starter Jyetman
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shifty51008
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Take an old credit card or something along those lines and peel up the matt and tgen just use your fingers to pull them off. Wash hands with ssoap and water after and your good to go.
Wonton Soup
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Why would you get sick from scraping zoanthids off the glass?
Don't eat them and you'll be fine.
Don't eat them and you'll be fine.
Jyetman
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Is it best to do this while they are submerged first?
shifty51008
12-5 Chiefs record
Yeah, they seem to slime up when out of the water which makes them harder to grab a hold of
Ron Reefman
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Many corals produce toxins that are best washed off your hands before touching anything else. Palys are the worst as far as I know, but zoos can be somewhat dangerous as well.
I have a friend who was fragging palys and then rubbed his eye and that caused serious problems for him that lasted about a year. For many months he was nearly blind in that eye as his vision was super blurry.
Ron Reefman
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Many corals produce toxins that are best washed off your hands before touching anything else. Palys are the worst as far as I know, but zoos can be somewhat dangerous as well.
I have a friend who was fragging palys and then rubbed his eye and that caused serious problems for him that lasted about a year. For many months he was nearly blind in that eye as his vision was super blurry.
I don't treat corals as toxic or even really harmful. I've been in the hobby for about 15 years and I've never had an issue other than a jellyfish sting. And that happened while I was snorkeling, not in my tank. But then some people are much more sensitive to these kind of toxins than I am, just like mosquito bites and bee stings.
joshbrookkate
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SK8R has posted a stickie about this. Check it out. Serious stuff. Gloves and goggles when fooling around with zoas and palys.
marvelousone
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I am with mjv0103 Wear Gloves.
mudskipper1
Trust Me I'm an Engineer
You don't actually have to touch them for it to be dangerous, either. I know somebody that ran hot water over some palys and the vapor put him in the hospital for a few days. Very serious stuff. When you wash your hands, rinse with cold water first, the hot water was the problem I think.
codyreed29
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I would use a razorblade holder plastic one and remove them put them on the sand bed or rock and wait 2- 3 days then mount them to frag plug or rock.
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