Couple almost dies after cleaning Reef Tank

[Paul B]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/...-second-deadliest-poison-hospitalizes-10.html

 

[ca1ore]

Man, lots of these kinds of stories at the moment .......

 

[NinnJinn]

Although there are some pretty awesome looking corals this alone is pretty much why I will not have them in my tank.

 

[Jeepguy242]

Bullcrap

 

[PghReef]

I'm confused. Pulsing xenia released the polytoxin? I thought it came from palys?

 

[tastyfish]

I'm wondering how many copy and paste journalists are going to repeat this story before realising Xenia does not contain any Palytoxin...

 

[samnaz]

I can’t help but think some of that article was exaggerated.

Four firefighters rushed to the hospital for breathing the fumes... are the fumes really that dangerous a day after they were released into the air?

 

[domination2580]

Talk about not doing his research....

 

[tastyfish]

I can’t help but think some of that article was exaggerated.

Four firefighters rushed to the hospital for breathing the fumes... are the fumes really that dangerous a day after they were released into the air?

Apparently it was treated as a major incident, with 10 people taken to hospital. Given the context of the recent chemical attack here in the UK, 70 miles from this incident, you can understand them going in heavy as it were.

If palytoxin is being released as a vapour and contained/concentrated in a house, then its perfectly possible to get an unpleasant dose. But it didn't come from pulsing xenia. :)

 

[StingrayNYC]

I can’t help but think some of that article was exaggerated.

Four firefighters rushed to the hospital for breathing the fumes... are the fumes really that dangerous a day after they were released into the air?

Exactly
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[Paul B]

Here is another interesting fish story.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article208216444.html

 

[DeniseAndy]

Maybe he had some polys hidden in the rocks. I have some in my tank that are nasty buggers and nothing kills them. NOTHING!!!!

 

[timrocks311]

This story is strange. Xenia released the toxin? Doubt it. He removed his rock and corals so he can clean the tank? That's some crazy extensive cleaning.

 

[saltyhog]

Unless I read it wrong it says he power washed his rock. I bet if it was palytoxin...which I am skeptical of ...it was because of the power washing.

 

[reefwiser]

The upteeth post on this since last week and no Xenia does not have palytoxin need to combine these into one post. But if you mess with zoa’s and paly’s watch out.

http://masna.org/masna-education/palytoxin/

 

[rock_lobster]

It is a lie. Only way this could happen is boiling a whole bunch of nasty palys which would be insane to do indoors...

 

[Kremis]

wow lots of these stories going around recently...

 

[AdamD76]

My brother posted this on my timeline, he was worried I'd kill myself cleaning the tank.

 

[DeniseAndy]

LOL. Just don't boil your rocks full of palys or squirt them in your eyes (I did that once). You should be fine. Steaming palys for dinner is not recommended either. Stick with broccoli.

 

[Paul B]

I don't clean my tank so I will be fine. :D