Venomous marine organisms

[Ian Joseph]

very useful information for newbies. thanks!

[ydolphin]

Rabbit fish or 'new year fish' is another family with venomous spines, their fins, esp. dorsal are sharp and extremely painful when you get pierced ... got pricked by a 2" juvenile when net casting and the throbbing pain lasted for a few hours

[boyington]

Yes got pierce by one too, many years ago at a kelong, pain for at least 2 hours, a lesson I will always remember..

[lazer]

Good info. Thanx for sharing

[Pacman]

Wow, I that time handled my trigger to do freshwater dip lucky never kena bite

Ya bro last time when I dive, trigger fish is the one fish that I always lookout. This fellow no joke

[tuajia]

While I was researching on beginner soft corals, I read up that Zoanthus (button polyps) and Palythoa species, which are popular soft corals, are actually highly toxic. If their toxins enter the bloodstream (maybe cuts on fingers or accidentally rubbing eyes) it can easily cause death. I added a link to wikipedia for easy reading. Other websites also report similar info. Might want to be careful just in case!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoantharia#Dangers

Edited July 4, 2015 by tuajia

[Simonongst]

Thanks for sharing

[JMW]

While I was researching on beginner soft corals, I read up that Zoanthus (button polyps) and Palythoa species, which are popular soft corals, are actually highly toxic. If their toxins enter the bloodstream (maybe cuts on fingers or accidentally rubbing eyes) it can easily cause death. I added a link to wikipedia for easy reading. Other websites also report similar info. Might want to be careful just in case!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoantharia#Dangers

yah! I read about it too..... but some sources say that only some species are really toxic, while some are not? Not sure also, can any pro zoas hobbyists validate this information?

On dealing with them, apparently it's best to frag them with gloves, eye protection. & must wash hands well after handling them

[Aung Thu Ice]

Nicely done !!

[andrwsaurus]

Trigger fishes! Not exactly venomous, but they hella hurt when they bite and am sure their teeth holds quite a bit of bacteria

[mikez]

thanks for the info:)

[Komerider]

Some fanged blennies commonly available r poisonous btw. So b careful.

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[xIHA]

Good read

[soggycookies]

Got pricked by my diadema urchin a few weeks back while doing tank maintenance. Finger still feels sorta weird now cause I got pierced along the side where the skin was pretty thin. Mild swelling that went away after a week. From my knowledge the spines of diadema urchin species are slightly venomous. probably not as bad as a Rabbitfish’s dorsal spine venom though

 

 

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[justareefer]

Thank you.

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[Junyan]

Not toxic but just to be careful. Had a pistol shrimp in tank, heard a snapping sound, went to check and saw the shrimp picking on my extremely stressed foxface which had been very healthy, an hour later the foxface died. I think the shrimp killed it

[bobdude]

thanks for sharing

[stangreef]

Spotted scat is also poisonous...

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