A warning about toxicity. A MUST read.

[dufus]

From what i have gathereed on all this, the Zooanthids aren't toxic.

It's the Palythoas that are deadly, and not all of them at that.

Button polyps are the dangerous ones, again, not all of them.

and, the toxin would have to be introduced in larger amounts than just a small open cut on your hand being in the very diluted palytoxin in the aquarium.

now, i could see if the man was fragging his polyps and there was a fair amount of palytoxin released that the dog ingested.

Another thing, it is a dog, therefore it's a bit smaller than a human and it would take less palytoxin to be fatal than it would take in a human.

Now i don't think we should get a false sense of securrity though.

The most toxic animal on earth is infact found in many people's aquariums.

And if you don't think your LFS would sell it to you, think again.

I can buy a black mamba if i want to for about 300$, or a monacled cobra for about 100$

You can also get an octopus with Cyonide in it's beutiful blue rings at some LFS.

The red eft(the juvinile form of the eastern newt) can sometimes be bought at reptile expos, and is very toxic.

for that matter, you can purchase or even find brown recluse spiders for a very small anmount.

just be carefull.

I, honestly, don't like button polyps in the first place, but am obsessed with zooanthids.

Know what you're buying, and know what's dangerous.