Spiked and poisoned by this fish
Submitted: Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 19:41
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Member - Steven K (NSW)
Can someone tell what fish this is,it put me in hospitable for 3 hours,the 1st hour was pretty painful it spiked my thumb while I was trying to get it to swim after a woman caught it at Shaws Bay
Ballina and didnt know what to do with it,after tetanus shot and some panadeine forte some 2 days later thumb and wrist still a little swollen and sore.Image Could Not Be Found
Reply By: Notso - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 19:53
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 19:53
Might be a parrot fish.
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Reply By: Member -Pinko (NSW) - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:03
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:03
Hi Steven
There is a good chance it may be a Bullrout.
There are many in the river at
Grafton NSW.
Stan
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Reply By: Isuzumu - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:04
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:04
We call them Happy Moments here in Qld....and I can tell you they is nothing happy about getting a spine in you. Proper name siganus nebulosus.
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Reply By: Big Woody - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:06
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:06
It is called a Happy Moment.
You have my sympathies....the first 3 hours is pretty bad isn't it.
I reckon the toxin affects your mood as
well. I got really angry for a few hours after being spiked in my finger. I never get angry about anything. hehe!!
Once you have been hit by one of these you will never let it happen again.
Brett
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Follow Up By: Big Woody - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:12
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:12
Video of Happy Moment
The juveniles have very different colourings to the adults but are just as painful
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Reply By: Paul and Mel - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:10
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:10
if you ask me after it spiking you it should be called a dead fish.................
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Reply By: Member - Berylvt - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:14
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:14
Yep! Happy moments. The best treatment is to immerse the affected part in very hot water -as hot as you can tolerate. Use the unaffected limb as the temperature gauge. No long term adverse effects - except wariness of future encounters…
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Reply By: Bob Y. - Qld - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:28
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 20:28
Glad someone knows what it is.
While not venomous, a big yellow-belly can give you a nasty spike, especially when you don't have any panadeine forte, or sympathy, available.
Bob.
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Reply By: landed eagle - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 22:14
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 22:14
Father in law got spiked by a Gurnard here in Tassie a while back. Was in lots of pain until he put his hand in water that was as hot as he could stand......instant relief and pain gone.
Might have worked for this fish??
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Reply By: Member - John (Vic) - Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 22:55
Thursday, Sep 08, 2011 at 22:55
Most fish poisons are a protein based venom.
Hot water as said by others, hot as you can bare will normally
breakdown the venom fairly quickly.
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Reply By: sweetwill - Friday, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:58
Friday, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:58
Hello Steven.
Mate been there done that, only it was a flathead that spiked me, i was a kid at the time and i thought i was a goner,iv never let it happen since cheers bill.
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Reply By: Member - jlAU (SA) - Friday, Sep 09, 2011 at 17:11
Friday, Sep 09, 2011 at 17:11
looks like a leather jacket.
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Reply By: Member - Steven K (NSW) - Friday, Sep 09, 2011 at 18:16
Friday, Sep 09, 2011 at 18:16
Thanks guys I think my Happy Moment was a moment to long
never again without a rag
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Reply By: Lokpikn - Monday, Sep 12, 2011 at 00:52
Monday, Sep 12, 2011 at 00:52
All so know as a spine foot.
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