Marine aquarium cautions

[daniella3d]

Well if they sting I am immune to it because I can't feel a thing beside the tentacles sticking to my skin when I pull away. Same result with my duncans as the tentacles often stick to my skin but I don't feel anything remotely painfull.

The people at the LFS when I bought both anemones were handling them out of the water and into the bag with their bare hands, toutching it quite a bit. Did not seem to hurt either of them.

Originally Posted by no_bs

Just dependes on how sensitive you are to toxins. Everything stings, that's why they stick. Some are more potent than others. I will not let anyone touch my green carpet, he has the nastyest sting in our tank. I work with my hands and it's sting hurts, the harder he latches on the worse the sting. So i can imagine what sensitive people go through. We have seen people with large rashes and lesions from coral stings.

[Coleus]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Well if they sting I am immune to it because I can't feel a thing beside the tentacles sticking to my skin when I pull away. Same result with my duncans as the tentacles often stick to my skin but I don't feel anything remotely painfull.

The people at the LFS when I bought both anemones were handling them out of the water and into the bag with their bare hands, toutching it quite a bit. Did not seem to hurt either of them.

Depend on the type of anemone as well, I have three and two sticking to my skin with no problem. The other one, i can feel the sting right away

[The Grizz]

I must has some tough skin for the simple reason the only coral that has ever made me feel the sting is the long tent plate I had.

[Murminator]

Almost thinking of bailing.....


http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...031#post550031

[fishytime]

thanks for posting the link Murray

[fishytime]

heres a story from a customer at the shop.....he is a member here but shall remain anonymous....said member realized or read or whatever that sodium bicarbonate dissolves quicker when you stir it into hot water....he had the idea to do the same think with his bulk calcium additive ......he said the second the boiling water hit the calcium it literally exploded and sent some of the calcium flakes shooting throughout the room!.....he said the resulting heat generated by the mixture nearly melted through the 5g bucket he was using......so lesson learned is.....cold water only for mixing your bulk Ca solutions!

[The Grizz]

Oh so true, I have noticed that adding calcium added to cold water causes steam to rise from the pail and the water temp rises quickly.

Good tip Dougster