Sting reports?

[elfda]

I have found I don't react to nems unless I have an open cut

No fair! Lol

 

[94Roarge]

No fair! Lol

Sorry not sorry ;)

 

[elfda]

Starts as just a real bad itch, turns red and feels like fire on my hand short time later, area will swell and a day or more later will blister up and continue to itch like crazy. Blisters then pop and you are left with just red scabbiness that still itches.

Perfect description of the sequence of events from a sting!

Around the time of blistering, I also describe it as feeling like you got a bunch of papercuts, dunked it in lemonjuice, and then set it on fire.

 

[elfda]

Fuzzy Dwarf lionfish here, it hurt.

Oh geez; that hurts to look at!
*applauds your war wound*

Also got nailed by long spine urchin- that stinks because the spines break off inside the wound and you can't do anything but wait to dissolve.

Oh dude, that sounds agonizing!
Is there anything you can do to speed up the break down of the spines?

 

[Hans-Werner]

When I touched the knobs at the tentacle tips of the coral I immediately felt the burning pain at the little skin lesion.
When the red stripe started at my wrist I showed it to a doctor because this symptom is know as "blood poisoning". As the doctor was not able to stop the red stripe from moving up my arm in a few days he sent me to a hospital where I got intravenous infusions with antibiotics.
Maybe I have to say I live in Germany where it maybe is easier to get into a hospital than in the US. I didn´t really feel sick.

 

[elfda]

When I touched the knobs at the tentacle tips of the coral I immediately felt the burning pain at the little skin lesion.
When the red stripe started at my wrist I showed it to a doctor because this symptom is know as "blood poisoning". As the doctor was not able to stop the red stripe from moving up my arm in a few days he sent me to a hospital where I got intravenous infusions with antibiotics.
Maybe I have to say I live in Germany where it maybe is easier to get into a hospital than in the US. I didn´t really feel sick.

Oh, you can always get *in* a hospital; the bills just make sure your soul never leaves.

 

[Hans-Werner]

We have a system of general health insurance which makes sure that the stay in the hospital does not get very expensive. We just have to pay a co-payment.

 

[RamsReef]

My grandmother who lived in Florida most of her life swore by Adolphs meat tenderizer to treat jellyfish stings. It breaks down protein so it makes sense it might work for anemones.

Now with Zyklon?

 

[Neptune1707]

I had handled a bunch of live rock cleaning it before putting in my tank years ago....something "thorny" on the live rock got my hand in several place, my entire hand swelled up, was really hard to ball my hand into a fist....hand felt stiff and skin was real tight. Kinda freaked me out. Waited it out instead of heading to ER. After a couple days, it finally stopped itching and my hand was back to normal. I keep saying I'm going to use gloves handling stuff in the tank and I either forget and just get lazy. Live and Learn I guess. :-) Be safe out there people!

 

[elfda]

I keep saying I'm going to use gloves handling stuff in the tank and I either forget and just get lazy.

I just keep reminding myself of the time we have to spend on paperwork for an incident report; so far I've remembered my gloves 3 times.

Which is better than zero! Lol

 

[Frop]

Ya so I don't touch my anemone for this reason. I don't know if I am one of the allergic side or not.

 

[becca10]

Lionfish,2 barbs in the thumb. Excruciating pain.

 

[RamsReef]

Lionfish,2 barbs in the thumb. Excruciating pain.

BRB Going to get a lionfish sting.

 

[becca10]

BRB Going to get a lionfish sting.

I highly discourage it. Was almost as bad as childbirth. Then I had to have the barbs dig outta my thumb.

 

[meir]

Yup! I have heard that the hungrier they are, the stickier they are... any truth to that?

It would make sense, actually ive done a bit of experimenting with my RBTAs, after feedings the nems aren't as sticky as after going two weeks without being fed. My conclusion is, when the nem catches food, it uses those stinging cells to grab whatever it's trying to eat, depending on how big the food item is and how much of a fight it puts up is a deciding factor in how many of the cells are used up. Now we know already that if a nem eats too much the food will either decay in its gut or will be spit out, so in order not to catch unnecessary food, I think it doesn't reline its tentacles with those stinging cells, but when it gets hungry it starts producing more and more to higher the chances of snaring something to eat.

 

[meir]

Oh man, I've gotten stung by euphyllia, anemones, and quite a few other corals. Not to mention a Canary blenny, a foxface, and my personal favorite, got nailed by a dwarf lionfish so bad that I still can't feel the tip of my finger. That's just salty critters. We could talk about reptiles and arachnids as well if you like. Apparently I'm tasty.

I feel like there are more stinging, venomous, and dangerous creatures in the ocean then on any other place on earth, does anyone feel me on this one?

 

[elfda]

I feel like there are more stinging, venomous, and dangerous creatures in the ocean then on any other place on earth, does anyone feel me on this one?

1000%

 

[eleet]

I feel like there are more stinging, venomous, and dangerous creatures in the ocean then on any other place on earth, does anyone feel me on this one?

Australia. Pretty sure even the humans are venomous.

 

[meir]

Australia. Pretty sure even the humans are venomous.

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[TikiBird]

TIL bristleworms can sting [emoji33]