puffer poison?
puffer poison?
I've been reading that puffers are poisonous ,but I"m wondering if there actually dangerous in any way?
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Nope, puffers don't inject poison, even in their spines. Its only if you eat them that you get poisoned.
Boxfish on the other hand, and I think lionfish maybe? If they die they can release their toxins into the tank, killing all their tankmates. But the common puffers no, you can't get poisoned from handling them or getting bit by them.
Boxfish on the other hand, and I think lionfish maybe? If they die they can release their toxins into the tank, killing all their tankmates. But the common puffers no, you can't get poisoned from handling them or getting bit by them.
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I just saw a CSI tonight, where a voodo priestess was killing off victims with a powder made from pufferpoison. They said it was taken from their skin & liver.
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Anyone ever see the movie "Hello Again" with Shelley Long? In it, she was accused of using tetraodotoxin to slow her body functions and simulate death so she could then pretend to have been resurrected by her witchy sister. I believe it was pronounced (very slowly and deliberately) TET-TRO-DO-TOX-IN. Found it kinda funny.
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Wow, that's interesting!
I wonder where they are getting their puffers from though... hopefully not wild caught! And thinking along those lines, I wonder if certian species are more toxic than others...
Of course if the line of thinking that its something they eat in the wild that causes the toxicity, then that answers the "wild caught" question eh?
I wonder where they are getting their puffers from though... hopefully not wild caught! And thinking along those lines, I wonder if certian species are more toxic than others...
Of course if the line of thinking that its something they eat in the wild that causes the toxicity, then that answers the "wild caught" question eh?