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So you can't just post your successes here on these forums... We certainly have mistakes and failures along the way. "real boats rock". So I am writing this after the most miserable violently sick night of my life. I have only put two and two together in the last hour or so but I believe it makes since and is the cause of this.
Last night around 8pm I had about half a dozen medium/small pieces of LR that were covered in about 200+ heads of a brown nuisance polyps. I decided to go ahead and kill them off with boiling water before letting the rocks completely die off and reintroduce a few weeks down the road as dead base rock.
Upon doing this it took only a few minutes before my house was filled with the most awful smell from these polyps being killed. I then took them outside which is what I should of done in the first place. The house was still pretty bad so we aired the house out and sprayed some airfreshner to handle the smell.
9:30 - My 3 year old son Reese wakes up coughing his head off and throwing up.... extreme shakes and high fever
10:30 - My 7 year old son Cameron wakes up coughing his head off and throwing up.... extreme shakes and high fever
at this point I'm wondering what is going on...
11:00 - I start coughing my head off.... extreme headache... Extreme chills, shivers, just a violently sick experience.
11:30 - My wife Cindy joins us with an extreme cough, headache, chills, etc, etc.
This continued non stop last night until about 6-7am for each of us. It was a miserable and terrible experience... I've never been so sick before and neither has Cindy or my boys.... The fact that it hit us all at the same time in the same way was super bazaar. We spent some time this morning trying to figure out what could of happened, food poison, bad water, anything.... but we could not come up with a single thing yesterday that we all ate or drank the same thing of.
Then the memory of the smell of the dying nuisance polyps hit me over the head like a freight train this morning and I realized just how stupid of a thing I did. Cindy, Cameron and I are feeling much better this morning with the exception that we are all very sore and tired from last nights extreme sickness. Reese my youngest son is still coughing some this morning and has a slight fevor. Cindy is calling Poison Control to get their take on it now.
Any thoughts from you guys? I feel terrible that I made such a stupid mistake here. I've never wanted to kick my own ass more than I do right now.
Last night around 8pm I had about half a dozen medium/small pieces of LR that were covered in about 200+ heads of a brown nuisance polyps. I decided to go ahead and kill them off with boiling water before letting the rocks completely die off and reintroduce a few weeks down the road as dead base rock.
Upon doing this it took only a few minutes before my house was filled with the most awful smell from these polyps being killed. I then took them outside which is what I should of done in the first place. The house was still pretty bad so we aired the house out and sprayed some airfreshner to handle the smell.
9:30 - My 3 year old son Reese wakes up coughing his head off and throwing up.... extreme shakes and high fever
10:30 - My 7 year old son Cameron wakes up coughing his head off and throwing up.... extreme shakes and high fever
at this point I'm wondering what is going on...
11:00 - I start coughing my head off.... extreme headache... Extreme chills, shivers, just a violently sick experience.
11:30 - My wife Cindy joins us with an extreme cough, headache, chills, etc, etc.
This continued non stop last night until about 6-7am for each of us. It was a miserable and terrible experience... I've never been so sick before and neither has Cindy or my boys.... The fact that it hit us all at the same time in the same way was super bazaar. We spent some time this morning trying to figure out what could of happened, food poison, bad water, anything.... but we could not come up with a single thing yesterday that we all ate or drank the same thing of.
Then the memory of the smell of the dying nuisance polyps hit me over the head like a freight train this morning and I realized just how stupid of a thing I did. Cindy, Cameron and I are feeling much better this morning with the exception that we are all very sore and tired from last nights extreme sickness. Reese my youngest son is still coughing some this morning and has a slight fevor. Cindy is calling Poison Control to get their take on it now.
Any thoughts from you guys? I feel terrible that I made such a stupid mistake here. I've never wanted to kick my own ass more than I do right now.
