Lesson Learned-Warning

[fencer]

Last Sat I was aggressively cleaning my tanks of grape calerupa. And yes I was wearing gloves but these were only medical gloves. In the process of pulling this stuff off the rocks the palys secret out a slime when mechanically upset. I don't know if it was the aerosol generated by the cleaning or the skin contact but it almost turned into a medical emergency. I suffered a severe acute asthmatic attack which lasted at least 8 hrs all night. I have no history of asthma. I did seek medical attention in the morning and the doctor put me on Ventolin.

[amy]

Oh that's awful. I hope your feeling better. Scary!

[Lampshade]

wow, that's terrible. I've heard some of them are pretty toxic, apperently some hawiian zoa's where used for poison tipped spears way back. Hope all goes well.

[fishoholic]

Yikes! Hope you are feeling better now.

[noirsphynx]

Scary! I hope you're all recovered now. I had once got the metal taste from my purple deaths just from pulling a small piece of algae off it and that was warning enough for me.

[ALang]

Wow. Sorry to hear that, Wayne. Hope you're better.