Hey all,
Watching a cool video on Joe Yaiullo’s 20,000 gallon reef rebuild. He took a tangent on palytoxins. How he had palys taking over the reef, he had numerous encounters with palytoxin, he said it was killing his fish and corals. You hear so much about palytoxins and there’s really seemingly no definitive answers out there. You get people saying they can wipe out a whole family then there’s most folks that say “don’t eat em and you should be okay”. Now upon my 20 mins of research into palytoxins themselves, I see one notable thing. Apparently there are certain Palythoa that are far more toxic than other Palythoa and Zoanthids? If this is true what is the difference? How can I tell that the three species of Palythoa I have aren’t the kind that allegedly send toxin into the water column? I would like to discuss this with you guys. I’ve included a photo of my three species. One is identified as Toxic Nuclear Green Palythoas. The other two, I can’t tell.
Regardless, I am removing the second photo for the soul reason that these guys are totally invasive and pretty ugly compared to the other zoas you see…
Watching a cool video on Joe Yaiullo’s 20,000 gallon reef rebuild. He took a tangent on palytoxins. How he had palys taking over the reef, he had numerous encounters with palytoxin, he said it was killing his fish and corals. You hear so much about palytoxins and there’s really seemingly no definitive answers out there. You get people saying they can wipe out a whole family then there’s most folks that say “don’t eat em and you should be okay”. Now upon my 20 mins of research into palytoxins themselves, I see one notable thing. Apparently there are certain Palythoa that are far more toxic than other Palythoa and Zoanthids? If this is true what is the difference? How can I tell that the three species of Palythoa I have aren’t the kind that allegedly send toxin into the water column? I would like to discuss this with you guys. I’ve included a photo of my three species. One is identified as Toxic Nuclear Green Palythoas. The other two, I can’t tell.
Regardless, I am removing the second photo for the soul reason that these guys are totally invasive and pretty ugly compared to the other zoas you see…