Stonefish
#1
Posted 20 May 2007 - 02:35 PM
The guys at Vebas jokingly tried to convince me that he enjoys a pat (just watch out for those top spines LOL)
I thought he'd be boring and just sit there but he's already doing laps of the tank within 30mins of being introduced. It's funny watching all the other fish follow him around keeping their distance.
Dazza
#2
Posted 20 May 2007 - 03:13 PM
itys true wat they say... about pets looking like their owners...hehe j/k!
#3
Posted 20 May 2007 - 03:59 PM
itys true wat they say... about pets looking like their owners...hehe j/k!
Thats funny
Sorry dazza i dont know you and mean no offence!
its a cool fish, And i love the first photo!!
That eye and all the red lumps around it is gross (but nice!!)
Graeme
#4
Posted 20 May 2007 - 04:49 PM
I am already getting goose bumps from putting my hand into my tank with no lionfish let alone something that kills you in under 1 hour and no way in hell of surviving!!!
you are living on the edge ill tell you that, ahaha i love him.
#5
Posted 20 May 2007 - 05:10 PM
may i ask how much it costs ( if you don't wont to disclose i understand)
thanks
sam
#6
Posted 20 May 2007 - 05:41 PM
#7
Posted 20 May 2007 - 05:42 PM
#8
Posted 20 May 2007 - 06:04 PM
Only cost me $40 bargain! Most ppl pay a lot more for a near death experience 4 lions, a stonefish and a frogfish so far. I'm in no rush to put my hand in that tank for a while me thinks.
Dazza
#9
Posted 20 May 2007 - 06:07 PM
NicholasC, Kills you in under one hour? I was under the impression that a stonefish is like a lionfish, Extremely painful and can be fatal in instances where the victim has a weak heart.
#10
Posted 20 May 2007 - 06:26 PM
and a lionfish:
The severity of an envenomation event may depend on the species and the size of the lionfish. The predominate effects of the lionfish venom are severe pain and swelling (edema) in the area around the wound. Other systematic responses such as nausea, dizziness, muscle weakness, shortness of breath, hypotension, and headache have been recorded either from the venom or as a reaction to level of pain.
In a series of 101 documented cases of captive lionfish envenomations in the US, the following effects were reported (Gallagher, 2001):
* 92% of patients experienced local pain
* 60% of patients experienced edema
* 13% of patients experienced systematic symptoms
* 1% of patients experienced tissue necrosis
* 0% of patients experienced death
I would swim in a tub of lionfish before i touched a stonefish 8O
#11
Posted 20 May 2007 - 07:33 PM
#12
Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:10 PM
Not many shops sell things they can get sued for these days like when you buy rays they are debarded
Well it looks like it to me cause i thought the spines where alot longer
#13
Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:21 PM
#14
Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:31 PM
I would hate to buy any fish and have it defaced or harmed in any way. It would be like buying a lionfish, but they remove all the fins just in case :roll:
I can understand why though, with this day and age people cannot buy somthing and take responsability for it's actions. :?
If you buy a stonefish, i think it should be the stores responsability to tell you about it's venom, if you get stung though then dont track it back to them.
It isn't that noticeable and he still looks great!, i guess if it doesn't harm the stonefish then it is alright. But i would still request one to be untouched if i was to buy one.
#15
Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:33 PM
Just some questions for every one ?
Vebas or any lfs can not sell fish that have the posiblity of killing you they might not even no it but they would of brought it de spined imo unless it demed not to be a threat ?.
Cause some one could by it get spiked die or get seriouly hurt and they where are they at then ?
Im sure they dont make people sign a contract waving your rights to live if you buy that fish ?
Just like every where else if you buy a sting ray or an animal they contains a posion they are normaly be barded defanged in some way well that way my understanding ?
Ive seen these in the wild and there dorsal fins are alot longer and hurt like hell !
All questions aside that is one cool fish !
I like things that are diffrent and are unusual and this fish takes the care well done good buy !
#16
Posted 20 May 2007 - 09:01 PM
Some distributors will ask u to sign a waver saying that u will take full responsibilty for any accidents or injury that may occur.
#17
Posted 20 May 2007 - 09:11 PM
Some distributors will ask u to sign a waver saying that u will take full responsibilty for any accidents or injury that may occur.
i thought that you also had to have a interveiw :?:
#18
Posted 25 May 2007 - 04:44 PM
isnt this a serious safety hazard
Blue ring occies can kill you in like 30minutes?
cheers for feedback
#19
Posted 25 May 2007 - 04:48 PM
i know someone who stepped on one and survived easy
all stonefish do is give u some pain
just stick infected area in hot water and wala!
I would step on a stonefish for $100 becoz its still bloody painful lmao
NOT DEADLY!
#20
Posted 25 May 2007 - 04:49 PM
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
NO ANTIVENOM
all that can save you is constant DR ABC
If your home on your own and bitten your %#$ed
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