Palytoxin, is it in my system and how do i get it out?

Reefkeepers Archive · Sep 22, 2023

Sooo, this happened. Last night i was observing my tank and noticed some sort of feeding arm coming out of my (wild caught) zoa rock, it was around 8-12 inches and since I just had gotten something similar out of my system earlier that day, I took the rock out and gave it a freshwater dip without a second thought. Unfortunately I had to take one of the polyps off in order to actually get the.... I don't know what it was but I suspect it's what attacked my wilisoni earlier. That didn't work, later that night I saw it come out again so I just said screw it and glued up the hole, I didn't see the hole earlier because that zoa polyp was blocking it, I pulled the polyp off outside the tank, I did NOT cut it and I did not put it back in the tank, my aquarium is 120 gallons so it isn't much compared to the water volume. Though today I am worried that there could be palytoxin in my system, I don't want that. Is it too late? Should I just start running carbon? Here are some photos