S/He Who Dies With The Most R2R Badges Wins?

IntrinsicReef · Dec 16, 2023

Reef By Steele said:
Maybe @revhtree would add a Reef Stupidity Badge lol.
Awarded to those like me who make stupid mistakes, ie not wearing protection while working in your tank, forgetting to turn pumps back on after feeding, stepping away from your mixing barrel when filling from a collection container and pumping gallons of water in the floor, getting squirted in the eye with a paly or zoa when dragging as you took your safety glasses off for a second and forgot to put them back on fortunately didn’t even irritate me. Oh that is just my list each and everyone plus I’m sure some I didn’t remember. I’m guessing there are others who have even better examples.

Can I get this badge first, please.

We can all get that badge! Yay!
Here is the Julian Sprung talk on Palythoa. Even he gets the badge. He made himself sick and nuked a tank with Palythoa.

AKReefing · Dec 16, 2023

crit21 said:
Again...survivors.

I wonder if the definition of an expert is someone who disagrees with other experts?

AKReefing · Dec 16, 2023

KrisReef said:
You have wayyyyy to many badges to get involve in our conversation here. You sir, are one of the envious problem makers, so face it>

By the way, I am worried that you had to seek medical attention for Palytoxin exposure. Take it easy and get well! You have enough badges already.

Is there an emergency room visit badge?

FMF0331 · Dec 16, 2023

If you can make a " ugly and single " badge >>>>> I'm your guy !!

Reefer Matt · Dec 16, 2023

I did get a bad blood infection from working on my old neighbor’s tank a few years ago. I cut my finger underwater on a rock (vermited snails) and got an infection. That infection went into my blood and lymph node system. I was in the hospital on iv antibiotics for three days in the icu for monitoring. So yeah, gloves should be worn when touching the rocks, imo.

Reef By Steele · Dec 16, 2023

FMF0331 said:
If you can make a " ugly and single " badge >>>>> I'm your guy !!

apparently why you use the corps for your icon. lol. Thank you for your service!

Reef By Steele · Dec 16, 2023

IntrinsicReef said:
We can all get that badge! Yay!
Here is the Julian Sprung talk on Palythoa. Even he gets the badge. He made himself sick and nuked a tank with Palythoa.

wow, what an interesting thing. Never thought about it. I had a major tank crash (coral die off) after a day of fragging. My tank was so beautiful and thriving, spent the day fragging and yes, a slew of palys including the really big ones. over the next couple of weeks (maybe faster) corals receded and died. maybe it was this as I didn't make any other changes to the tank.

I wonder how to avoid this, maybe a quarantine period in another tank? Does carbon pull this toxin? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!!

ISpeakForTheSeas · Dec 16, 2023

Reef By Steele said:
I wonder how to avoid this, maybe a quarantine period in another tank? Does carbon pull this toxin?

QT wouldn't help, but carbon does seem to pull the toxin:

taricha said:
"Activated carbon adsorbed 99.7% of PLTXs contained in the seawater and this represents a good strategy for preventing aquarium hobbyist poisonings."
From An aquarium hobbyist poisoning: Identification of new palytoxins in Palythoa cf. toxica and complete detoxification of the aquarium water by activated carbon

So we assume GAC helps mitigate the toxin in the water, but of course that doesn't help you if you scrub the rocks or directly contact the coral tissue etc.

We also presume GAC would remove toxins from dinoflagellates, (ovatoxin, saxitoxin, others) because ovatoxin is called a "palytoxin analogue". But I don't know enough to be confident on that.

IntrinsicReef · Dec 16, 2023

ISpeakForTheSeas said:
QT wouldn't help, but carbon does seem to pull the toxin:

That is good to know!

Reef By Steele said:
I had a major tank crash (coral die off) after a day of fragging.

I did a large tank move like I had done dozens of times. I guess I ticked off the Palys, because the next morning there was a horrid smell coming from the Rubbermaid troughs and corals were dying. The Palys didn't even go into the Rubbermaids. We discarded them because they were aggressive growers. It was a method I had repeated many times, and I didn't realize why it went south until I saw this video. I transferred the coral into the new tank water and everything recovered.

Midrats · Dec 16, 2023

All you guys with the fruit salads of ribbons should class it up like the old salts do and just wear your top three. Usually the combat ones. We need combat badges for beating pests. Mini medals or something would also be good for the sake of posts not taking up whole pages.

Nonya · Dec 16, 2023

Midrats said:
All you guys with the fruit salads of ribbons should class it up like the old salts do and just wear your top three. Usually the combat ones. We need combat badges for beating pests. Mini medals or something would also be good for the sake of posts not taking up whole pages.

What about thread combat?

Nonya · Dec 16, 2023

Something like this with some blood stains?

Lbrdsoxfan · Dec 16, 2023

Reefer Matt said:
I did get a bad blood infection from working on my old neighbor’s tank a few years ago. I cut my finger underwater on a rock (vermited snails) and got an infection. That infection went into my blood and lymph node system. I was in the hospital on iv antibiotics for three days in the icu for monitoring. So yeah, gloves should be worn when touching the rocks, imo.

Count me lucky that I never had a problem with vermited snails as both current tanks have them and a previous fowlr was more than invaded with them.

I was cleaning gyres yesterday and managed to get a few under the skin and so far never had a issue.

bakbay · Dec 18, 2023

IntrinsicReef said:
That is good to know!

I did a large tank move like I had done dozens of times. I guess I ticked off the Palys, because the next morning there was a horrid smell coming from the Rubbermaid troughs and corals were dying. The Palys didn't even go into the Rubbermaids. We discarded them because they were aggressive growers. It was a method I had repeated many times, and I didn't realize why it went south until I saw this video. I transferred the coral into the new tank water and everything recovered.

My wife is a sucker for palys & zoas. I can care less about them and reading all these threads make me wonder if it's worth the health risk? Is this isolated to payls only or zoas can release enough toxins? I have 2 colonies of palys that I can donate (or kill) but my wife loves her zoas garden.

ISpeakForTheSeas · Dec 18, 2023

bakbay said:
My wife is a sucker for palys & zoas. I can care less about them and reading all these threads make me wonder if it's worth the health risk? Is this isolated to payls only or zoas can release enough toxins? I have 2 colonies of palys that I can donate (or kill) but my wife loves her zoas garden.

Palys, zoas, and other things (surprisingly, it can be a bit complicated what does and doesn't fit this category) may all contain palytoxin, but as long as your not ingesting it/something that contains it, getting it in cuts (or your eyes), or (most commonly) aerosolizing it, it shouldn't hurt you at all.

If you want some in depth reading (that I think covers most of the topic) on palytoxin, see my posts in the threads below (some of threads have multiple posts from me):

Can the toxins from zoas actually kill you?

My family is worried about me getting zoas because there toxic, can the toxins actually kill you?

www.reef2reef.com

Newbie Palytoxin Concerns

So a little background info to start…we set up a 55 gallon tank with the intent of having a fish only tank. At the end of November we purchased 2 small ($10.00) coral frags. Unfortunately we did not do research and blindly purchased what turned out to be a Zoa and a Paly I believe. Fast...

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EMERGENCY - Anyone ever haddermal palytoxin poisoning on here.

To some ot up had a patch of gha on a huge zoa rock in tank was using forceps to pull it off while in the tank. Think i may have disturbed them a bit but not much and yes these are the big uglys ones that everyone says have it. Well wasnt wearing gloves and did it at probably 1 am monday...

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sfin52 · Dec 18, 2023

Reefing102 said:
lol I think @revhtree has the most (cause well yea…) anyway, here’s what I think I know:

Tank Thread/Build badge - start a build thread and put the link somewhere in your profile and it should show up (I think the actual instructions are in the feedback forum).

Hospitality - excessive participation in the introduction threads welcoming newcomers

Excellence - honestly not sure

Article contributor - I think you need to get a published article on this site

Partner member - participate in the partner drive

Light up reef2reef badge - buy a reef2reef light

My Midwest reefer - join the Midwest reefer club

And well I have no idea what some are

Rev has 16 vetteguy53081 has 19. Rev your slacking.