toadfish how venomous are they?

[albinomoray]

Does anyone know anything about toadfish and just how venomous they are? I found one which I will soon be picking up. I have read stonefish are the most venomous and I just wanted to know where toadfish fit in.

I have had bad luck with butterfly gobies they just seemed not to eat bloodworms which I feed the feeder guppies that my albino moray loves. From what little research I have found toadfish will eat ghost shrimp which is the other live foods I feed my eel. I may add another goby and would like to know if the toadfish would cause any problems for one half its size?

 

[Oddball]

There are many species of fish with the common name "toadfish". Members of the SW genus of Thalassophryne harbor venom akin to a wasp sting. Upon envenomation, submerge the wounded area in water almost intolerably hot. The heated water will begin breaking down the protein strands within the venom.
Need a generic name and/or pic of the fish to accurately provide info on its venom.

 

[MrRngr94]

I had 4 oyster toadfish. Not sure if they're poisonous or not. Never had any problems with them. If they were poisonous I never knew it. lol

 

[albinomoray]

Some bad news. When I went to pick him up after being told he came in he had since been put in quarantine so I left him to be picked up when he got better but he did not make it. It was an oyster toadfish.

I saw an orange scorpionfish and an orange toadfish in another LFS that were marine specimens which is too bad because I would have bought both had they been able to live in brackish water.