Who's been stung?

[loumaggs]

A number of venomous fish are available in the hobby, although I've never been jabbed myself by anything other than a bristle worm, I know someone that was caught out by a foxface rabbitfish, when picking up a rock.

Anyone else been stung and how did it happen? How bad was the pain?

 

[Wiz]

I don't use gloves, but also don't have any poisonous fish. The worst I've taken so far came from my elegance coral Its sting causes a rash that lasts about two days

 

[redfishbluefish]

It wasn't me, but a member in our local club was working on his tank. He has a foxface that is very skittish. Well he spooked the fish, and it jumped, and he just naturally reached out to catch the fish, and got the dorsal fins right across the palm of his hand. He had four or five welts on his palm for a week or so.

 

[cu455]

I was stung by a stingray. It sucked bad.

The last 2 pictures are 6 years later.First 3 pictures were taken the day after.

 

[cu455]

On a side note your hair grows fast.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I was working in a very algae grown tank volunteering when I had a clump of algae fall from my hand and I stupidly reached quick to pick it up and got a black spine from a spiny urchin (the big guys) right into my thumb. Had to run vinegar on it for 10 minutes and it had the black hole for over a week.

I also had two cases of zoa toxin. First one dumb on my part as after working in my tank itched my eye before washing. Ouch!!!!! Two days of white vision in the eye and a couple weeks of pain. Next time, I was doing things right, but somehow the darn zoa actually managed to squirt me in the eye. I mean this thing must have taken lessons from the Kennedy assassination. The angle and likelihood was remarkable. Anyway, lost vision again for a few days and then pain for over two weeks. I do wear eyewear and gloves, so like I said crazy unlikely. I reacted immediately by a flushing of the eye, otherwise could have been really bad.

Stung by fish no. Bitten by fish, yes. Clown female.

 

[loumaggs]

I was stung by a stingray. It sucked bad.

The last 2 pictures are 6 years later.First 3 pictures were taken the day after.

Wow, that looks nasty, how did you get stung?

 

[loumaggs]

I was working in a very algae grown tank volunteering when I had a clump of algae fall from my hand and I stupidly reached quick to pick it up and got a black spine from a spiny urchin (the big guys) right into my thumb. Had to run vinegar on it for 10 minutes and it had the black hole for over a week.

I also had two cases of zoa toxin. First one dumb on my part as after working in my tank itched my eye before washing. Ouch!!!!! Two days of white vision in the eye and a couple weeks of pain. Next time, I was doing things right, but somehow the darn zoa actually managed to squirt me in the eye. I mean this thing must have taken lessons from the Kennedy assassination. The angle and likelihood was remarkable. Anyway, lost vision again for a few days and then pain for over two weeks. I do wear eyewear and gloves, so like I said crazy unlikely. I reacted immediately by a flushing of the eye, otherwise could have been really bad.

Stung by fish no. Bitten by fish, yes. Clown female.

Wow... Your vision had two lucky escapes, female clowns can be nightmares

 

[reeferKen]

Saw a guy at a California beach get stingray stung in the exact same place one time. From walking out to the waves.

 

[Harold Green]

Hope this isn't too far off topic but there are lots of large ss. tweezers available at low prices. When I frag the tweezers are great for handling zoa's etc. and setting them into glue on frag plugs. I have one pair of 24" that are great for reaching the bottom of the tank and picking up items. The ten to twelve inch pair are good for gluing up frags.

 

[Paul B]

I have been stung by a foxface and the pain was pretty terrible. Also fire coral. I don't know which one was worse but it depends on how much poison they injected.

 

[loumaggs]

On a side note your hair grows fast.

I get asked to be a disney princess sometimes, they are hair extensions I've changed the video now, I was lacking energy when I did that one so redid it

 

[loumaggs]

Anyone been tagged by a lionfish?

 

[4FordFamily]

It wasn't me, but a member in our local club was working on his tank. He has a foxface that is very skittish. Well he spooked the fish, and it jumped, and he just naturally reached out to catch the fish, and got the dorsal fins right across the palm of his hand. He had four or five welts on his palm for a week or so.

A buddy of mine grabbed his foxface by hand when we first got in to this hobby, we had no idea foxface were venomous. His hand swelled up like a balloon and he said the pain stung and then burned really badly.

 

[4FordFamily]

The only stings I've received were from my many longspine urchins. Mine get enormous I've had some as large as my head almost (the round part as big as my fist) My last two remaining are about half that size which is still pretty big.

Anyway I seem to get stung at least once every few months i am apparently stupid an do not learn my lesson.

It's not that bad but they do leave black holes. Washing your hands afterwards hurts pretty bad if they got you deep.

 

[loumaggs]

A buddy of mine grabbed his foxface by hand when we first got in to this hobby, we had no idea foxface were venomous. His hand swelled up like a balloon and he said the pain stung and then burned really badly.

Ooo...that was not a wise move

 

[ZoaCollector]

Anyone been tagged by a lionfish?

Yup, was working on a QT with a dwarf lion and it spooked, jumped up out of the water and landed upside down on the back of my hand. I remembered reading about treatments literally a couple days before and ran to the faucet and ran scalding hot water on my hand for 15 min. It did the trick. While my hand was under the water I could see it swell up and then quickly swell down. Good thing I acted fast. The heat destroys the protein in the toxin.

 

[derekstank]

Anyone been tagged by a lionfish?

My cousin Dale's hand after lion fish. 4 days in ICU

It was in the wild. He was diving.

 

[AlexG]

The worst I got was a long spine sea urchin about 8-10" in diameter. I was working at the LFS at the time cleaning a live rock tank. I had the tank stirred up so there was no visibility and I forgot the urchin was in there. I was scraping and wiping as hard as I could and slammed my hand into the urchin full force. I had about a dozen spines in my hand. I ran and put the hottest water on it that I could but it did not help that much. Most of the spines broke off on removal so I had to cut them out with a razor blade which was not fun. I did have a co-worker that was stung multiple times by lionfish because he would not pay attention to them when catching other fish in that tank. This same person also handled a new shipment of sea anemones and then rubbed there eyes. They found out really fast that was a bad idea when there eyes and face swelled up.

 

[thereeferdude]

Not only are my corals happier when I keep my hands out of the tank, my hands are too! I'm guessing this is a reaction to palytoxin. I felt like garbage for a day or two afterwards.