Why is it that....

[Bruce Spiegelman]

... when Zoas squirt they ALWAYS aim for the eye?

 

[Jeff Rehling]

your mom asked me the same question

 

[Rostato]

That sucks. You ok?

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Yeah -- it just missed. My own fault.

 

[Rostato]

Glad to here. That can get really ugly really quick.

 

[MolaMola]

Phew. I was wondering if you were posting from the ER.

 

[treylane]

Had a direct hit a couple months ago. I took my glasses off for a minute because they got splashed when I dropped a frag. The safety issue didn’t even register since I’m used to *always* having them on. I was trying to get an xacto under a polyp and accidentally squished it —directly into my right eye.

Everything was fine at first but my eye started getting itchy, red, and swollen 2 days later. Oddly enough the ophthalmologist had heard of palytoxin! Got chewed out a bit for not wearing glasses but they set me up with some steroid drops and the eye was 100% back to normal a few days later.

 

[Wlachnit]

Had a direct hit a couple months ago. I took my glasses off for a minute because they got splashed when I dropped a frag. The safety issue didn’t even register since I’m used to *always* having them on. I was trying to get an xacto under a polyp and accidentally squished it —directly into my right eye.

Everything was fine at first but my eye started getting itchy, red, and swollen 2 days later. Oddly enough the ophthalmologist had heard of palytoxin! Got chewed out a bit for not wearing glasses but they set me up with some steroid drops and the eye was 100% back to normal a few days later.

wow...a lesson for all.

 

[Flagg37]

I’ve only fragged zoas in the tank.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

I’ve only fragged zoas in the tank.

Do you pull up the base "netting" or just clip at base one-by-one?

 

[Kremis]

i have had this happen to me 3 or 4 times, I always instantly wash my eye with water for at least 5 minutes under the sink. So far worst thing that has happened is an itchy red swollen eye

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

i have had this happen to me 3 or 4 times, I always instantly wash my eye with water for at least 5 minutes under the sink. So far worst thing that has happened is an itchy red swollen eye

BUt the point is they AIM for the eye!

 

[Coral reefer]

Wouldn’t you?

 

[Flagg37]

Do you pull up the base "netting" or just clip at base one-by-one?

I would scrape them off the rock. I would use bone cutters but would cut at the rock scraping them off.

 

[Julius Chen]

Do bubble algae know how to aim for the eye too?

I plan to remove a few of them later tonite.

 

[ashburn2k]

Do bubble algae know how to aim for the eye too?

I plan to remove a few of them later tonite.

You should remove them with their root, not the bubble itself.


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[JVU]

Well in fairness to the zoa, you are probably putting your eye uncomfortably close to and directly above the zoa as you are carefully messing with it. And you’ve got 2 of them, doubling their chances of a hit.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Well in fairness to the zoa, you are probably putting your eye uncomfortably close to and directly above the zoa as you are carefully messing with it. And you’ve got 2 of them, doubling their chances of a hit.

I have more than two zoas.