Reaction to working in a tank??

[Marthin Muller]

Hi guys and girls..

one of those silent stalkers and readers here. Some mega talent in the world of reef keeping for sure.

Has anyone ever had a reaction working in a tank?

background..

have a sps reef combined with a love for gigantea anemone's (urgh... I know) and decided in infinite wisdom to introduce a pair of Coral Beauties.. first few weeks all great, then the (almost expected) disappearance of the polyps.. growth still good, but just not working well. on top of that a fox face that developed a taste for las (also like bringing back sps like gonioporas which then subsequently never leave my waters again), so three fast fish need to go.

Monday broke down the tank, caught the fish and off to the LFS. Had really bad bubble algae and blue xenia, so scrubbed like mad (xenia is toxic, not wearing gloves and hands getting cut up pretty badly)

Felt really off colour on Tuesday (luckily not a working day), wednesday at work feeling worse, but soldier on with hands on fire and feeling like I can't breath properly. By wednesday night took a anti-histamine and felt much improved a few hours later. Body feels like a train wreck.. Opted to not work yesterday or today with headaches and muscle pain which is slowly getting better.

Been in the game since 2003 and never had anything like this, saying that, never been able to grow xenia till the last 6 months...

Enough rambling.. anybody had anything like this happen or know anyone who had a reaction??

 

[homer1475]

Did you have any palythoa in the tank? From your description of your symptoms, it sounds like other threads I have read about palytoxin poisoning.

Never heard or read of xenia being toxic.

 

[James M]

Xenia isn’t toxic. If you feel like something is really wrong go to the doctors

 

[Marthin Muller]

cheers for the replies. We had a case here in the UK that states xenia as toxic, but has never been sure about it.

Also forgot to add removing more than a hundred big purple bristle worms ( not by hand but inevitably touched them removing rocks)

Doctors are not great here, got told I have a virus and to wait for it to work its way out.. thought its worth an ask anyway

 

[homer1475]

If your talking about the guy who was boiling his rocks, read that news article a few years back. It was not xenia, he had a lot of palythoa on his rocks, and when he boiled them, he released the palytoxin into the air.

I'm still pretty sure your describing palytoxin. I would go to the doctors, and explain to them you think you might have palytoxin. That stuff can kill you.

 

[Marthin Muller]

Definitely not a single zoa in my tank.. I really dislike them personally.

I brought it up with the doctors so will just ride it out I guess

 

[homer1475]

Not zoas, palythoa.

Similar in appearance, but paly's are quite a bit larger. It's not ZOATOXIN it's called PALYTOXIN.

Sorry I'm being so adamant about this, BUT THIS CAN BE FATAL.

 

[Marthin Muller]

much appreciate for the concert, but no palythoa either.. apart from sps and lps there was only blue xenia, pulsing xenia and leather coral in my tank.. leather wasn't touched .

also worth to note that the foxface was removed by net with no contact at all

 

[homer1475]

Well leathers do release toxins and tannin's, it might just be your having an allergic reaction to that. Regardless of whether you touched it or not allelopathy with leathers is a real thing. Everyone is different, so it could be an allergic reaction to anything in the tank really. I personally would not be worried about the xenia though.

Either way, hope you feel better.