A seductive plant for aquarium keepers.
Posted on 04/05/2018 3:40:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
At first, Chris Matthews thought a flu bug had hit his entire family last week when they started to feel nauseous and experience eye problems at the same time. But when the family's two dogs started to show symptoms, Matthews knew something was wrong.
Matthews had cleaned out the aquarium inside his house in Steventon, England, a day prior. The 27-year-old was transferring rocks and other items from the fish tank into another container, so he could clean each item individually.
When he was finished power cleaning the tank, Matthews shut the door and went to bed. The next day, Matthews and five others in the home started developing symptoms "as bad as pneumonia."
"We couldn't regulate our temperature, we were struggling to breathe and coughing," he told SWNS on Thursday. "We woke up the next morning feeling groggy but initially put it down to flu."
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Matthews, his girlfriend, mother, father, sister and her boyfriend, and four firefighters were rushed to the hospital for treatment after inhaling the poisonous fumes. Luckily, they got out just in time.
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While palytoxin may be more dangerous when ingested, there can still be serious side effects simply by breathing in the fumes such as a disruption of "normal corneal function" and "irreversible blindness," the CDC warns.
Matthews, who has been taking care of tropical fish for over a decade, said he had no idea his simple chore could cause such damage.
"I knew about palytoxin, which can kill you if ingested, and that coral can cause things like rashes if you don't handle it carefully but I had no idea taking the pulsing xenia (coral) out of the water could make the toxin airborne," he said.
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Wrong chrisee leg thrill matthews.
exotic coral, pulsing xenia. Any fish tank store selling that stuff, shouldn’t
I was hoping
Dang, this is scary. I haven’t had a fish since my son grew a little goldfish into a big ole gross goldfish. He got dumped into a neighborhood pond when he went off to college.
Legend has it he is still alive and comes to the top to feed and keep growing.
uh, correction. My son went off to college. Sometimes I wish it was the fish!
Shouldn’t have had the fish.
So the guy still has the aquarium.
I don’t know, if that happened to my family, I would probably bag it.
Well, Chris just showed us he’s not half as smart as he led us to believe.
I had no idea about palytoxin.
My assumption is that it is related to salt water, so I won’t have to worry about cleaning my fresh water tank.
And here I thought a cat litter box was among mankind’s most toxic elements.
LMAO!! Nice!
Wait: so there is coral so deadly it can kill you from the AIR — let alone its neighbors in coral reefs?
“Pulsing Xenia” — I’ll bet she doesn’t have any problems getting dates on Saturday night.
“Pulsing Xenia” — I’ll bet she doesn’t have any problems getting dates on Saturday night.
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I had to pause, to consider the mind that would create the above sentence...then I moved on...
but they’re all dead by Sunday
It is when I have to clean it. ; )
A seductive plant for aquarium keepers.
It’s beautiful
If he’s got a saltwater tank, particularly one with live coral in it, he’s probably invested a lot of time and money into it and considers it a fairly serious hobby.
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