Title says it all. If I hadn't just spent my monthly tank allowance days before the listing, I would have already ordered it haha. Stonefish have been illegal to own in the US until recently, so it's cool to see them finally coming in!
Jikkers' Stonefish adventures
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Title says it all. If I hadn't just spent my monthly tank allowance days before the listing, I would have already ordered it haha. Stonefish have been illegal to own in the US until recently, so it's cool to see them finally coming in!
It’s only 3 days until February…give yourself a pass
good point. I've told myself that if it's still there when I get my next paycheck, I'll buy it.
I bought it.
Wish me luckDon't want to read about you in the news, other than the articles you write...
Thankfully, stonefish are not easy to be stung by. Their venom glands require a large amount of pressure to activate, so I would have to grab it and squeeze quite hard to be envenomated.
With my luck that sucker would jump from the tank and attack me like a xenomorph face hugger.Wish me luck
Thankfully, stonefish are not easy to be stung by. Their venom glands require a large amount of pressure to activate, so I would have to grab it and squeeze quite hard to be envenomated.
You could try and walk barefoot on it in your tank, that would also do the trickWish me luck
Thankfully, stonefish are not easy to be stung by. Their venom glands require a large amount of pressure to activate, so I would have to grab it and squeeze quite hard to be envenomated.
Don't need to be barefoot. They say the spines will go right through a boot sole.You could try and walk barefoot on it in your tank, that would also do the trick
it's a bit like a 4 guage hypodermic needle- the kind that you use on bears. But it *does* need significant pressure.
From Wiki...
"The reef stonefish is the most venomous fish in the world.[8] Its dorsal area is lined with 13 spines, each of which has two venom sacs.[8] The spines are sharp and stiff and have been known to pierce boot soles.[14] Stonefish venom can be fatal at a dose of only 18 mg, which the fish is capable of releasing with only six of its thirteen spines. The protein makeup differs between the three species of stonefish, but in reef stonefish the fatal protein is the verrucotoxin protein"
Are you going to put it in it's own tank?
Oh absolutely, yes. I have a whole tank set aside just for it. There's currently a stone crab in that tank, but he will be moving to the sump until I have space to set him up in his own display.
What's the feeding plan?
I'd love to see the thing strike live prey. But you'd probably need a high speed camera to catch it. Hey, get Slo Mo Guys to come over
You don’t. I kept a sargassum frog fish for ~ a year while I was living on Kauai. Slowmo on an old iPhone 12 was able to capture it make things disappear. Really cool to see it use its lure and lure something in. I need to figure out how to get access to my cloud and get the old video I have of it.
I plan to start it on live mollies and eventually wean it on to frozen squid, mussels, and octopus. My eel and frogfishes eat the same things, but they eat so infrequently that I usually have an excess that gets freezer burnt and thrown out. This guy (assuming it gets trained onto frozen) should eat *just* enough to get rid of my waste.What's the feeding plan?
I'd love to see the thing strike live prey. But you'd probably need a high speed camera to catch it. Hey, get Slo Mo Guys to come over
Now that I've got such a wide collection of predator fish, I've genuinely considered emailing Destin at Smarter Every Day to see if he'd want to do a vid. Maybe once I get back into dwarf frogs and have a more diverse collection...
Ooof, you're a braver person than I. Personally, I have a rule of nothing in my fish tank that will send me to the hospital... the closest I'll get to crossing that line would be a carpet anemone.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It wouldn't hurt, however, to ask your local hospital to have the anti-venom on hand just in case heat therapy fails. It would seem to be rather rare.
Oh, and as for dwarf frogs... my wife and I are discussing putting one her the snail-breeding tank for her pea puffers, actually. And Destin is the best
Hot water immersion as a treatment for stonefish sting: A case report - PMC
The North Borneo state of Sabah is known worldwide for its beautiful islands and dive sites. Local hospitals deal with a number of marine-related injuries, including marine fauna envenomation by Scorpaenidae and Synanceiidae families of fish. We ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It wouldn't hurt, however, to ask your local hospital to have the anti-venom on hand just in case heat therapy fails. It would seem to be rather rare.
Oh, and as for dwarf frogs... my wife and I are discussing putting one her the snail-breeding tank for her pea puffers, actually. And Destin is the best
Dibbs on your stuff when you die
Best of luck with it!
Make sure to give him backrubs daily, it really helps their fins
Dwarf frogs meaning dwarf frogfish haha. I used to keep them years back, they're hard to find though. They're fun because many of them are crustacean specialists, so you can actually keep them long-term on frozen krill and ghost shrimp!Ooof, you're a braver person than I. Personally, I have a rule of nothing in my fish tank that will send me to the hospital... the closest I'll get to crossing that line would be a carpet anemone.
Hot water immersion as a treatment for stonefish sting: A case report - PMC
The North Borneo state of Sabah is known worldwide for its beautiful islands and dive sites. Local hospitals deal with a number of marine-related injuries, including marine fauna envenomation by Scorpaenidae and Synanceiidae families of fish. We ...
It wouldn't hurt, however, to ask your local hospital to have the anti-venom on hand just in case heat therapy fails. It would seem to be rather rare.
Oh, and as for dwarf frogs... my wife and I are discussing putting one her the snail-breeding tank for her pea puffers, actually. And Destin is the best
The greatest part of the stonefish is that you have to take 6 whole spines worth of venom to be at risk of death, so I should be safe unless I grip it like a burger on a speedboat ride.
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