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No fair! Lol
Sting reports?
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No fair! Lol
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Perfect description of the sequence of events from a sting!
Around the time of blistering, I also describe it as feeling like you got a bunch of papercuts, dunked it in lemonjuice, and then set it on fire.
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Oh geez; that hurts to look at!
*applauds your war wound*
Oh dude, that sounds agonizing!
Is there anything you can do to speed up the break down of the spines?
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When I touched the knobs at the tentacle tips of the coral I immediately felt the burning pain at the little skin lesion.
When the red stripe started at my wrist I showed it to a doctor because this symptom is know as "blood poisoning". As the doctor was not able to stop the red stripe from moving up my arm in a few days he sent me to a hospital where I got intravenous infusions with antibiotics.
Maybe I have to say I live in Germany where it maybe is easier to get into a hospital than in the US. I didn´t really feel sick.
When the red stripe started at my wrist I showed it to a doctor because this symptom is know as "blood poisoning". As the doctor was not able to stop the red stripe from moving up my arm in a few days he sent me to a hospital where I got intravenous infusions with antibiotics.
Maybe I have to say I live in Germany where it maybe is easier to get into a hospital than in the US. I didn´t really feel sick.
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Oh, you can always get *in* a hospital; the bills just make sure your soul never leaves.
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We have a system of general health insurance which makes sure that the stay in the hospital does not get very expensive. We just have to pay a co-payment.
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I had handled a bunch of live rock cleaning it before putting in my tank years ago....something "thorny" on the live rock got my hand in several place, my entire hand swelled up, was really hard to ball my hand into a fist....hand felt stiff and skin was real tight. Kinda freaked me out. Waited it out instead of heading to ER. After a couple days, it finally stopped itching and my hand was back to normal. I keep saying I'm going to use gloves handling stuff in the tank and I either forget and just get lazy. Live and Learn I guess. 
Be safe out there people!
Be safe out there people!
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I just keep reminding myself of the time we have to spend on paperwork for an incident report; so far I've remembered my gloves 3 times.
Which is better than zero! Lol
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It would make sense, actually ive done a bit of experimenting with my RBTAs, after feedings the nems aren't as sticky as after going two weeks without being fed. My conclusion is, when the nem catches food, it uses those stinging cells to grab whatever it's trying to eat, depending on how big the food item is and how much of a fight it puts up is a deciding factor in how many of the cells are used up. Now we know already that if a nem eats too much the food will either decay in its gut or will be spit out, so in order not to catch unnecessary food, I think it doesn't reline its tentacles with those stinging cells, but when it gets hungry it starts producing more and more to higher the chances of snaring something to eat.
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