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01/22/2013, 04:45 PM | #76 |
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I have lots also had them for many years, they came in on live rock. Difficult to see on liverock thats been in he dark for a few months but they survive somehow. On the odd day you are working on your reef for long periods of time you have to be careful. Wear gloves.
How easythe toxin is released i don't know. I do know if they are stressed by handling they seem to empty there stomachs and you get a stringy substance coming from them. |
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wow, this article was a serious eye opener for me. i will never boil live rock and always wear gloves while handling them and coral. thanks for sharing!
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10/06/2013, 05:25 PM | #78 |
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A painful reminder of how rediculously dangerous some everyday things in reefing can be.
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10/06/2013, 07:56 PM | #79 |
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Wow very scary, hopefully many can learn from your storey
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10/06/2013, 08:13 PM | #80 |
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hey what happened to supperrmario can happen to anyone of us. I was cleaning an old rock in my garage that had dried out and I did the same thing to my family and dogs. those brown and green pales are some of the most toxic pales in the ocean and are really bad when the dry out do not scrap them when they are wet or dry.
glad to hear you are ok I know I lost at least 10% percent of my lung cap to those palyes. |
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Good tip for novices and experts. Before cooking live rocks, it is a good idea to let it sun dry for a few days.
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10/07/2013, 03:35 PM | #83 |
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So what exactly do you do when you get these? just leave them?
Or is the consensus to remove with lots of protection? Anyone use the green lasers on them?
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'Cooking' live rocks wins first prize for the stupidest term in a hobby full of stupid terms. 'Cooking' live rock has nothing to do with cooking, or boiling, or microwaving or any form of heat whatsoever. It has nothing to do with heating rocks and should never have been called 'cooking' in the first place! It was a term someone came up with because they thought it sounded neat, I guess, and describes a process of keeping live rock in the dark, in regular room/aquarium temperature water, for a very long period of time while performing periodic water changes. It has nothing to do with heat, or cooking. And it shouldn't, for obvious reasons.
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For what it's worth, drying rock in the sun may kill the polyps, but it doesn't by any means guarantee that the toxin within the polyps is neutralized. I know you didn't say anything to the contrary... I'm just pointing that out for others who might read this.
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good to hear everything is ok now. i have heard of boiling rocks prior to putting them in the tank but not after taking them out to basically become dry rock. what was the purpose of that?
just read further and saw your response.. get it now. |
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Knowing is one thing, but it is also a good idea to let other people know in case they find you on the floor after you've been playing with your tank one day.
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10/08/2013, 11:52 AM | #89 |
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Wow, that is scary. Glad you, and your family are ok now!
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Bump it up for novices...
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01/27/2014, 07:10 PM | #91 |
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Have always feared zoo's for this very reason. Heard many other stories like urs and worse.
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01/27/2014, 07:59 PM | #93 |
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Why is this not a sticky? It should be
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+1 sticky
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boiling live rock.
This is indeed a learning experience for me..and here's my story... yesterday I decided to boil my rock to kill pieces of aptasia that was becoming a problem in my tank. I started putting a piece at a time in a pot and began boiling them. My cousin came by to say hi and we began talking and I forget the rock is at a full boil for 30 mins.our conversation starts to come to a close and I notice she starts coughing as if something is irritating her, she leaves the house and I cut of the stove and I realized the kitchen is full of fumes and I open the windows and front door to get it out of the house. I leave the house to do some errands and on my way back I start feeling as if I'm getting a cold. Chest pain, chills, headache. I go to sleep waking up from time to time and realizing that I'm sweating and am soaking wet. I wake up in the morning feeling as if someone hit with a bat ! About an hour or to I start feeling much better and started drinking a lot of water to flush my system. I'm very lucky to be alive. NEVER BOIL LIVE ROCK !!!!
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Palytoxin is no joke.
We don't need long drawn out stories, just a warning... in a sticky DO NOT BOIL ROCK. It is a really dumb thing to do. (If I had a $100 for each time I heard someone was going to boil rocks this hobby would be free). I was hit by using hot water out of the tap to clean an overflow part. Yay for the ER!
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Well, reviving an old thread, but a good one. I did the same thing last night. The difference, instead of boiling the rocks, I soaked them in vinegar, cooking the Z&P with acid.
I'm living the same story in the OPs first post now without the trip to the ER. It's about 18hrs after exposure and the FLU like symptoms are gone, but the chest pain is still here as well as the labored breathing. TAKE HEAD! Vinegar cooking can cause the same airborne toxin as boiling. |
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This is a sticky in the New Reefers section.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2515630 It happened to my scrubbing algae off my rocks, and some Zoa's. I will NEVER have Zoas in my tank.
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