Another Tank Getting Converted Over To Salt!

[seffieuk]

Seffie x



ps did you research the cold water marine uk habitat?

lol done some hands on research today was down at the rock pools watching all the little gobies going around their business. Also found some rather interesting shrimp, bright green, very attractive, as well as your usual mix of crabs and shell fish. But as far as putting in place a practical implementation, no, lol.

Would be great, I dont recall seeing anyone else on here doing that - go on, jump on in

Seffie x

 

[pscl227]

When keeping a marine tank is there anything to beware of?

What i mean by this is there any Anemone's, Corals or small critters found in live rock that have the potential to give you a nasty bite, sting etc?

What sort of precautions do you have to take?

 

[seffieuk]

There are indeed - but you tend to become immune to them after a while, however it is always a good idea to keep antihistamin in the medicine cupboard. A few people have been known to have very bad reactions but this is quite rare I believe.

Did you manage to get the June/July issue of ultra marines and read the piece by Mike Lemmon?

Seffie x



just had a quick look around and came up with this:


http/www.blenny.clara.co.uk/native_marine.htm

 

[pscl227]

No, i had a look round but i think it is a bit late to get that issue!

So what sort of things is there to be aware of? is there anything particular i should avoid keeping?

I do tend to take very bad allergic reactions to things (only started in the past few years however )

 

[seffieuk]

I'm afraid I have no personal experience of a temperate tank - but would love to see one developed

Seffie x

 

[TigerIssey]

Did you manage to get the June/July issue of ultra marines and read the piece by Mike Lemmon?

No, i had a look round but i think it is a bit late to get that issue!

You will get from Becky at McMillans when you go next week. She stocks that magazine and keeps back issues aswell.

 

[Musho3210]

When keeping a marine tank is there anything to beware of?

What i mean by this is there any Anemone's, Corals or small critters found in live rock that have the potential to give you a nasty bite, sting etc?

What sort of precautions do you have to take?

Yes, Zoanthids and, in higher concentration, Palythoa and Protopalythoa contain a toxin known as Palytoxin, which is the second most deadly natural toxin in the world, second only to maitotoxin. Maitotoxin requires .13 micrograms per kilograms to be deadly in mice, so i think palytoxin is around that number, so as you can see it is extremely deadly.

Luckily most zoas and palys contain an even less amount than is required to kill, and simply touching them wont cause any problems, unless you get unlucky where touching them causes the contact sight to swell. What you do need to be careful about is touching zoas with an open cut, that can be incredibally dangerous. Next up, doctors dont normally know about this, there are stories where people who have palytoxin in their blood stream go to the doctor and they are the ones telling the doctor what to do. Lastly, eating zoas can be deadly, that might seem like a joke to you but some pets have gotten into tanks or quarantine or acclimation chambers and HAVE eaten zoas and HAVE died.

For precautions, wear gloves when handling zoas, its as simple as that

Other than zoas or palys there are little other common marine life that goes in our tanks that can kill, unless you are super allergic.

Source:
[URL="http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin"]http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin[/URL]
[URL="http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoanthid"]http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoanthid[/URL]
[URL="http/saltaquarium.about.com/od/softspeci...ysoftcorals.htm"]http/saltaquarium.about.com/od/softspeci...ysoftcorals.htm[/URL]
and some forums...
Many websites that talk about zoanthids talk about palytoxin stories on other forums