Blue Ring Octopus at absolutely fish..

[jejton]

Medical treatment for this octo bite is the same as eating blowfish. It is tetrodotoxin. It stop brain signals from reaching your lung to let you breath. It is similar if not the same as polytoxin. All you have to do is put yourself on a artificial breathing machine and after 24 hours you should be fine.

Just a technical correction. It doesnt so much stop the signals travelling from the brain but acts at the neuromuscular junction ( I'm in the middle of Neuroscience I right now and the texts/doc's love this one ).

BTW - how did that fight end?

 

[Killerdrgn]

What to do with a Blue Ring:

http://www.reefcentral.com/vid/bluering

Wow that mantis seriously f'ed up that octo. I kinda wish i did have a mantis.

 

[House of Laughter]

Here mantis mantis mantis!

Keep your hands and feet inside the car.

WOW

house

 

[leoskee]

Imagine if you could carry a mantis like that around in your pocket and every time you came across a wise mouth a-hole you could just pull him out and let him go to work. That would be pretty cool.

 

[caad3]

You know somebody will not be able to resist the temptation of owning a killer. Well the world will have one less stupid person to deal with.

 

[danelam]

man that vid is disturbing. When I was a kid back in Oz, we had it drummed into us to stay away from blue rings, and rockpools and such. Also stonefish and cone shells. So many little critters that could kill you. haha

 

[chazertis]

dude that is the most bad A video that i've seen in awhile....

 

[Thales]

Hey guys,

In an effort to get 10 posts so I can reefberry, I thought I would respond to this thread.

It's unclear if bluerings in captivity actually have the toxin - it seems that some do and some don't. It also seems that the toxin can effect you in the water.
Interestingly enough, there are no cases of death or bite due to these guys in captivity over the at least 25 years they have been in the trade, and only a handful or two in the wild. Local collectors and kids pick them up bare handed.

None of that means that they shouldn't be treated with a good deal of respect in the home aquarium, or that one shouldn't take the potential of a bite seriously.
IMO if they are respected, they are not as dangerous as mixing electrical devices with saltwater (or putting a strip plug on the floor next to your sump)

All that said, even though I keep cephs, I don't keep bluerings.

 

[BHDMC]

A few years back, Country Critters in Patchogue, LI, NY had one for sale. The next time I went back, it was gone.

 

[georgelc86]

The mantis video is going to disturb me for a few hours, excuse me while I go hide under the bed.

That mantis would do wonders for me on the 6 train during morning rush hour.