Palytoxin

[guiburity]

Accidentally left a zoa in my tank downstairs that I was taking down. It’s been a couple days it’s been there. Any chance of palytoxin?
It’s been out of the water for a couple days now on the garage inside the tank.

 

[blaxsun]

You can always scoop it up (wearing gloves) and put it in some saltwater to see if it recovers or if it's already gone to the great coral reef in the sky...

 

[guiburity]

You can always scoop it up (wearing gloves) and put it in some saltwater to see if it recovers or if it's already gone to the great coral reef in the sky...

My guy is dead already lol. Just wondering in the palytoxin side. Any chance is in the air and I ended up dying tonight

 

[blaxsun]

My guy is dead already lol. Just wondering in the palytoxin side. Any chance is in the air and I ended up dying tonight

It's not really aerosolized - it's mostly if it oozes or squirts onto something with an open scrape or cut (or if it gets in your eyes, nose or mouth). If you're concerned, just wear a mask, goggles and gloves and dispose of the corpse... Not all zoas and palys have palytoxin or to what degree of severity, either (just to make things more complicated).

 

[ZoWhat]

Been dealing with zoas/palys since 2007.

Toxins do NOT go airborne and make anyone sick unless cooked by a flame or boiling water. They do NOT go willy nilly airborne without being on the coattail of an airborne method like steam.

Toxins do NOT make you sick unless you touch the slimecoat and it enters the body via a cut, or you touch your eyes or mouth.

Toxins are to be respected but not feared like its a terrorist that going to jump out at you.

You would have to breath in the slimecoat via a cooking method or accidentally ingestation via your hands into eyes, ear, mouth or open cuts

 

[guiburity]

Been dealing with zoas/palys since 2007.

Toxins do NOT go airborne and make anyone sick unless cooked by a flame or boiling water

Toxins do NOT make you sick unless you touch the slime out and it enters the body via a cut, or you touch your eyes or mouth.

Toxins are to be respected but not feared like its a terrorist that going to jumpnpit at you.

You would have to breath in the slide-out via a cooking method or accidentally ingestation via your hands into eyes, ear, mouth or open cuts

OHHH OK thank you so much brother. Appreciate it

 

[mdb_talon]

Been dealing with zoas/palys since 2007.

Toxins do NOT go airborne and make anyone sick unless cooked by a flame or boiling water. They do NOT go willy nilly airborne without being on the coattail of an airborne method like steam.

Toxins do NOT make you sick unless you touch the slimecoat and it enters the body via a cut, or you touch your eyes or mouth.

Toxins are to be respected but not feared like its a terrorist that going to jumpnpit at you.

You would have to breath in the slide-out via a cooking method or accidentally ingestation via your hands into eyes, ear, mouth or open cuts

There are many reported cases of airborne palytoxin. Sometimes doing foolish things(boiling rocks), but other times doing nothing that would obviously cause the release

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[Ghost25]

Toxins do NOT make you sick unless you touch the slimecoat and it enters the body via a cut, or you touch your eyes or mouth.

Minor disagreement, I can say from experience palytoxin can cross intact skin.

 

[ZoWhat]

Minor disagreement, I can say from experience palytoxin can cross intact skin.

If slimecoat lays on the skin long enough... whenever I frag zoas/palys and get slimecoat on my fingers, I'm washing my hands within 5mins

 

[Ghost25]

If slimecoat lays on the skin long enough... whenever I frag zoas/palys and get slimecoat on my fingers, I'm washing my hands within 5mins

I washed my hands thoroughly and within 5 minutes. These were Nuclear Green palythoa and I severely irritated them because I was removing another zoa that was right between the polyps.

I did my best to do this underwater, but I stupidly did it with bare hands. Lots of slime. As I was doing it I realized I had made a mistake and quickly and thoroughly washed my hands with soap. No cuts or abrasions visible (though of course there are always microtears). Got flu like symptoms which resolved in about 36hrs.

Lesson learned, I removed them. Never had any problems with normal zoanthids barehanded fragging, but Nuclear Greens slime like crazy and have high toxin levels.