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This is not new information to me, but has anyone here gotten really sick, cause handling a Pretty Lil Zoa

never had issues with zoas.. but my fingers always itch/hurt/tingle after touching the millepora

do a search, there are many topics about this. the threat is vastly exaggerated in my opinion and experience.

It should dude thats part of the fire coral family



Aww shoot yur rite

A little disconcerting that I have a colony of the zoa's they chose to picture in the article

definitely sucks for a whole day

i have never had a problem with my zoas

Especially when the article you linked has spelling errors in it... like polytoxin... lol.

zoa sandwhich anyone ?

I've always wondered the validity of the whole idea..... I mean it makes sense but.... I dont know was curious to what other peeps thought about it

Its a potent toxin, but I think you need more than any of us will get to really do much. I had some cuts from scraping vermatid snails off my tank, then fragged some palys ( ones pictures lmao) and my fingered kinda tingled but thats it...

I see....
Hey wheres that freaky lil spider

Yea, probably shouldn't eat them. Some people do have bad allergic reactions to them though.

And I dunno, I have always thought the video was funny, and Saint Patricks Days is coming up

what about wearing gloves?

Then your good to go, peeps suggest that anyway when dealing with zoas

Gloves and goggles are a must when fragging. For me anyways.

just dont eat them or be in the mood to frag with paper cuts all over your hands. I never had a problem with ZOA'S but I was transporting an elegance coral from the bag to tank and didnt remember I had a scrape on my finger, well he got me and it stung stung stung, felt like my finger was on fire the throbbing was horrible and the next moring I woke up and whatever nasty toxin a elegance has ate the flesh off my finger about 5x larger than what the original little scrape was.

I thought the toxins were from palys, hence the word palytoxin. I have never had issues, but I do take precautions. I think if you got a squirt in the eye or some in an open cut there might be some adverse reactions.

It's rare, but the consequences can be pretty dire. If you're doing much with them at all, it's better to be safe. Personally I wear latex gloves anytime I handle corals (live rock too), and if I kept nem's, I'd wear glove with them too. It's more for their protection than mine. If I were doing anything where I thought that a coral piece might get in my eyes or mouth, I'd wear protection. Like when I've seen people frag with a saw.