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The line that stood out for me from the article: All through the night -- and let me emphasize that you just can't make this stuff up -- the coral

The line that stood out for me from the article: All through the night -- and let me emphasize that you just can't make this stuff up -- the coral seems to have exuded some sort of creeping death mist. O_O Please, someone, tell me that the author is exaggerating at least a little...

CamperBob2 11y ago
Here's Wikipedia's version (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin): According to an ancient Hawaiian legend, (Malo 1951) on the island of Maui near the harbour of Hana there was a village of fishermen haunted by a curse. Upon their return from the sea one of the fishermen went missing. One day, enraged by another loss, the fishermen assaulted a hunchbacked hermit deemed culprit of the town's misery. While ripping off the cloak from the hermit the villagers were shocked because they uncovered rows of sharp and triangular teeth within huge jaws. A shark god had been caught. It was clear that the missing villagers had been eaten by the god on their journeys to the sea. The men mercilessly tore the shark god into pieces, burned him and threw the ashes into a tide pool near the harbour of Hana. Shortly after, a thick brown moss started to grow on the walls of the tide pool causing instant death to victims hit by spears smeared with the moss. Thus was the evil of the demon. The moss growing in the cursed tide pool became known as "limu-make-o-Hana" which literally means "seaweed of death from Hana."[3] The Hawaiians believed that an ill curse came over them if they tried to collect the deadly seaweed.[9] So, there's that. In reality you usually have to go looking for trouble with this stuff in order to be affected by it. This article appears to be based on an unusually virulent sub-species that isn't commonly seen in the aquarium trade.
pvaldes 11y ago
Is not so strange. The 'mist' is created by the aquarium pumps and aerators in fact. If the water had poisonous substances and the aquatium does not have a cover, those could travel by the air as aerosol. Is rare, but not paranormal. The inverse works also easily. It is known that fishes can be poisoned and die by nicotine or burned oils smoke when aquariums are placed in smoking rooms or kitchens.

CamperBob2 11y ago

Here's Wikipedia's version (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin): According to an ancient Hawaiian legend, (Malo 1951) on the island of Maui near the harbour of Hana there was a village of fishermen haunted by a curse. Upon their return from the sea one of the fishermen went missing. One day, enraged by another loss, the fishermen assaulted a hunchbacked hermit deemed culprit of the town's misery. While ripping off the cloak from the hermit the villagers were shocked because they uncovered rows of sharp and triangular teeth within huge jaws. A shark god had been caught. It was clear that the missing villagers had been eaten by the god on their journeys to the sea. The men mercilessly tore the shark god into pieces, burned him and threw the ashes into a tide pool near the harbour of Hana. Shortly after, a thick brown moss started to grow on the walls of the tide pool causing instant death to victims hit by spears smeared with the moss. Thus was the evil of the demon. The moss growing in the cursed tide pool became known as "limu-make-o-Hana" which literally means "seaweed of death from Hana."[3] The Hawaiians believed that an ill curse came over them if they tried to collect the deadly seaweed.[9] So, there's that. In reality you usually have to go looking for trouble with this stuff in order to be affected by it. This article appears to be based on an unusually virulent sub-species that isn't commonly seen in the aquarium trade.

pvaldes 11y ago

Is not so strange. The 'mist' is created by the aquarium pumps and aerators in fact. If the water had poisonous substances and the aquatium does not have a cover, those could travel by the air as aerosol. Is rare, but not paranormal. The inverse works also easily. It is known that fishes can be poisoned and die by nicotine or burned oils smoke when aquariums are placed in smoking rooms or kitchens.