Ya know, I want some of those long full arm kind. Now that my tank is maturing, all these bugs in the water make me want to vomit. I hate bugs. I know copepods and such are good, but I don't want them on my skin. Gross.

I never wear gloves, I am just careful.

On the rare occasion I am going after a stinger. Like a bristle worm.

Anyone get hit by a mantis shrimp?? OUCH!!

Gloves? I don't even wear clothes!

no gloves..... the other kids would laugh at me.

If your man enough to tag it, you better bag it.

But I still never wear gloves.

I strongly recommend wearing gloves while working in the aquarium. I have a disease I have been fighting for 3 years now since working at an aquarium. Its basicly a build up of bacteria that is harvesting under the skin where the fingernail root meets skin. The more your hand is in water the more prone to getting it. I take antibiotic pills, and antibiotic topical creams daily, and its an on going struggle to keep from spreading. I forgot the name but its not uncommon in the fish industry.

Dude, did you get that for placing your hand in the water? I think im going to start wearing them, not because of what you just said but because everytime I place my hand in there my bi color blenny takes nips at me. It's starting to anoy me. That way I wont feel the bites. Haha.

Hahahaha...flickj79 vs. mantis shrimp, round one.

--B

Who open this stupid thread. Nonsense. Who is stupid enough to wear glove?

no glove, no love.

Does this poll ever go away?? Where the heck is a the new one?? I feel as though i'm in the twilight zone reading the same poop all day long!!

GOD, someone post something else....
8)

Sometimes I wear long dish washer gloves because my arms and hands become very dry from long exposer to salt water to clean the acyrlic walls.

I can't feel anything with a glove. It kinda ruins the moment--IMO

I use cooking chopsticks, the super long ones, precise and easy to use.
Now that's an Asian way to handle things

Why use gloves? I like to FEEL the PAIN of my bristleworms. Besides, my queen trigger would just bite through the glove to give me my weekly loving. Then I would have to worry about her taking the eternal sand nap from trying to digest latex.

Whoa!

I remember this thread. I don't use cloves anymore.

Here is the arm length gloves that you guys were talking about.....

i buy vinyl ones at home depot, but only use them for fragging or digging out bristlers.

I have a hard enough time feeling anything without gloves on, I don't know how you could do anything in the tank with them on. Do people who use them really like them?

EZ i use chopsticks also funny thing is im not asian, im MEXICAN

i use magnums

I dont use anything.
I usually just jump in nekkid
OH wait, were talking about the fish tank!!


I just make sure my hands dont have anything recently contaminating on them.
If I just washed my hands, I usually wait a little bit, then rinse off with water again before putting them in the tanks.

never had any issues.

i too havent used any gloves up to this point, just pre and post wash. It does burn when u have a cut that is for sure.
One time i did have my hand in the tank though and i rubbed it against some of my LR and sure enough a hour later my hand started to burn, then my arm. all those wonderful sensations went away after a couple hours though.
like everyone says though, it is hard to handle stuff/feel it w your fingers when u have a glove on your hand.

I wear gloves, cheapies from Walgreen's.

My LFS has a nasty infection that is affecting his entire arm. I have heard a few horror stories about weird infections from reef tanks.

This thread is years old.... people keep bringing it back why?

flickj79> "i never wear gloves my hands are as tough as nails, i work at a lumber yard no stinkin animal can hurt me and i am immune to bacteria "


that sounds stupid (immune to bacteria) but it can kinda be true... My dad works for severn trent, and in his earlier days as he was around the sewerage plants he was ill on and off for a good year, now he's very rarely ill

I'm going to get gloves for fragging and wear eye protection after the squirt story.

mmm, nope!

i use Acrylic Chop sticks...
+1 for the asians. =)

every LFS iv seen dont use gloves. all bare hands obviously they dont use hands to catch the fishes though...
but that would be crazy to watch. (lighting fast hands that scoops out fishes in seconds.)

bump.

I use the long purple/orange Coralife aqua gloves every time!

Otherwise my male clown bites me and he has drawn blood in the past

thump him.

i always use protection....

He is not scared of anything. The little fish is crazy for sure.

It's no big deal anyways. With this small body of water its a good idea to wear gloves anyways!

Yes, I am very skin sensitive....

negative

lol

I have never used gloves, but really should...one thing I have learned from some of the best reefers around here...keep your hands out the tank as much as possible...

-David

Nope. My Maroon Clown will attack me if I get too close to his/her RTBA. I chalk that up to an iron dosing day.

You need to show him who is boss.

No gloves for me...

no gloves for me either!

Only when I handle zoanthids and I just use latex surgical gloves.

Aren't these covered with a thin layer of talc to prevent them from wrinkling and sticking together?
I'm not sure this is good for aquaria

BTW, no gloves for me.

i only use gloves for moving zoo's and liverock. (i always have cuts n scrapes on my hands.)

Never used gloves but have had my hand bit so many times................





Oh that cinamon clown...............

I started wearing recently, but only when cleaning or moving things around. When I'm feeding, my hand will make it into the tank, but no where near the corals, since I use a small pipette.