Omg!I was trying to reach under the left plate of coral to get something off the sand. My arm was pierced just a pinprick - with something sharp. Within an hour it was red - blistered. Within 3 hours it was the size of a golf ball. I happened to have some antibiotics - and after talking to the doctor took them. the next day - the size of a softball - redness wise (diameter). I saw an infectious disease specialist sure I had vibrio or something terrible - he said 'its probably staph or strep' - he gave me doxycycline and augmentin - took 3 weeks but cleared up. At the end a sliver of calcium - the size of pin 'popped out'. I always vowed to wear gloves since then - but I dont....
Off the top of my head, got stung by a lionfish, long spine urchin spine in my hand, numerous clownfish bites, a triggerfish bite, scraped knuckles of course, a few cuts here and there. The worst was when I was in middle school and a hose popped off my canister filter (people still use those??!!) spraying water all down the back of my tank. I reached down to unplug the power strips and it was lights out. Thankfully when I woke up I wasn't laying in the wet carpet. 35g on the carpet. I had very understanding parents!I got stung by an urchin went to doctor it was red and painful. I contracted fish tuberculosis from the urchin. Was on antibiotics for 3 months . Not fun!I have never been stung our hurt other then small cuts and nicks from working with live rock, scrubbing sumps, etc. However, I was working at my LFS moving hammer frags from one rack to a rack beside it, and all of a sudden when I reach down to grab a frag, my pinkie finger suddenly exploded in pain. It felt like I'd been stung by a wasp. I jerked away, and looked but there was nothing on my finger, no marks of anything. I went and rinsed my hand in the sink, and after a few minutes the pain died down.
I didn't think about it or feel it for the rest of the day until I went to drive home. My finger started aching and hurting again and it was very swollen and red and there was a gouge taken out of it. I couldn't bend it without pain. I was baffled! Where had the gouge come from? I know I didn't do anything else to hurt my finger that day. That night was painful until I took ibuprofen and this morning it was still red and swollen and hurting. Hydrocortisone cream and some ibuprofen took most of the pain away but it looks like the gouge is deeper. It has a very wierd "scab" as it's not like a normal scab. It's very soft and an odd color. If it's not better in a few days I'm going to go to the doctor. I've asked some reefing friends and none have anything like this happen before. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened? FYI I checked and there were no bristle worms, vermetid snails, sharp skeletons, etc. I have a friend who gets stung all the time by LPS but they're like tiny mosquito bites, nothing like this.
Anyways, I was curious how many people have been injured and how severly while reefing. Share a picture if you can, and describe what happened!
I forgot. Also stung by a full grown lionfish. Spent 2 hrs in E.R.
I have never been stung our hurt other then small cuts and nicks from working with live rock, scrubbing sumps, etc. However, I was working at my LFS moving hammer frags from one rack to a rack beside it, and all of a sudden when I reach down to grab a frag, my pinkie finger suddenly exploded in pain. It felt like I'd been stung by a wasp. I jerked away, and looked but there was nothing on my finger, no marks of anything. I went and rinsed my hand in the sink, and after a few minutes the pain died down.
I didn't think about it or feel it for the rest of the day until I went to drive home. My finger started aching and hurting again and it was very swollen and red and there was a gouge taken out of it. I couldn't bend it without pain. I was baffled! Where had the gouge come from? I know I didn't do anything else to hurt my finger that day. That night was painful until I took ibuprofen and this morning it was still red and swollen and hurting. Hydrocortisone cream and some ibuprofen took most of the pain away but it looks like the gouge is deeper. It has a very wierd "scab" as it's not like a normal scab. It's very soft and an odd color. If it's not better in a few days I'm going to go to the doctor. I've asked some reefing friends and none have anything like this happen before. Does anyone have any idea what might have happened? FYI I checked and there were no bristle worms, vermetid snails, sharp skeletons, etc. I have a friend who gets stung all the time by LPS but they're like tiny mosquito bites, nothing like this.
Anyways, I was curious how many people have been injured and how severly while reefing. Share a picture if you can, and describe what happened!
