Notable stings, shocks, bites, and otherwise memorable injuries in the hobby

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Reef_Geek

My most recent was a brush against some fire coral in Cozumel, scuba diving through some swim-throughs in December.
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I had the same experience there in November - still have some scars on my knee. I thought I knocked that coral out of harms way.

[smokinreefer]

having my bamboo shark hanging onto my finger with his mouth.

having my stingray hanging onto my finger with his mouth.

having my snapper bite my finger.

luckily my mantis shrimp never took a swing at me.

anybody ever have that happen?

[Dearth]

First and worst injury to date when I was new to hobby had something either from Zoa coral or rock it was attached to inject something into my system and paralyzed my left hand and arm for roughly 6 hrs the pain was intense and unbearable at times really really wanted to cut my arm off at times

[Reef_Geek]

Sorry to hear it was so rough. This topic of zoa toxins is incredibly fascinating... it's such a common coral in the hobby, yet very few people have the misfortunate of getting it into their bloodstream system or into their mouth/eyes. But when it happens, it sounds absolutely awful.

Had a quick web browse... the section under 'Dangers' on wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoantharia

a TFH article here:
http://www.tfhmagazine.com/details/a...thid-toxin.htm

The original scientific research paper cited by the TFH article:

Moore, R.E. and P.J. Scheuer. 1971. Palytoxin: A New Marine Toxin from a Coelenterate. Science: 172 (3982), 495-498.

http://www.ufpe.br/gpa/images/docume...palitoxina.pdf

[MMAX]

I actually had some orange branching monti sting me the other day. One of my fish broke off a good sized piece, so I grabbed it out to frag it. It was obviously ****ed off and after cutting and gluing, my finger tips on my right hand were all tingly. Didn't hurt or anything, just washed my hand and all was good.