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Unread 03/08/2018, 05:24 AM   #6
ReefkeeperZ
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generally you have to cut them out if they are deep, and cant get them with a pair of tweezers or exacto on the surface, of just wait for them to disolve, I wouldnt worry so much about a random spiking causing palytoxin poisoning, but fun stuff like pseudomonas and vibro and other marinum baterium are a very real infection danger one of my co workers almost had to have part of a finger amputated due to an infection caused by a punture and marine water, he got lucky and the infection started to receed a few days before the cut of date (pun intended).

I've had longspine urchins spike me and I just soak the area in the hottest water I can to destroy the protien in the venom and let it disolve on its own if I cant get it out easily.


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