Just posted up this video after getting poisoned by the Palytoxin.
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Thanks for your help on this post. You seem to be an expert in the field of palytoxins. I'm just a guy relating my story with the stuff. I do however believe that the toxins aerosolize into your home and can cause symptoms that are ongoing during the dry winter months. If you fiddle around with your tank every couple of days, and the Zoas or Palys release toxins into the water, and you go through 2 or more gallons of evaporation a week, the toxin is in the air in your home.
I'm not an expert in palytoxin, but I live in Hawaii and the only anthozoans we can keep legally here, with the proper permits, are zoanthids and some local soft corals. Therefore I have a zoanthid dominated system and have been collecting my own for more than 20 years. I can assure that while most of the Zoanthus spp. or Palythoa spp. COULD have very low toxicity, they MIGHT have significant effects on differnt individuals, depending on how those people would handle those organisms. The other side of the coin is that some of them CAN carry sky high doses of the toxin and be FATAL even for the non- sensitive individuals.Thanks for your help on this post. You seem to be an expert in the field of palytoxins. I'm just a guy relating my story with the stuff. I do however believe that the toxins aerosolize into your home and can cause symptoms that are ongoing during the dry winter months. If you fiddle around with your tank every couple of days, and the Zoas or Palys release toxins into the water, and you go through 2 or more gallons of evaporation a week, the toxin is in the air in your home.
We felt sick and achy all the time for a couple of years with all those Palys in my tanks. We both are starting to feel better now that it's all gone. Why would anyone want to have those in their home? Get some flowers instead. Just sayin....