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Do you wear gloves when working in your aquarium?


Christopher Marks

Aquarium Gloves  

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  1. 1. Do you wear gloves when working in your aquarium?

    • Yes, always.
      4
    • No, never.
      34
    • Only sometimes. (Explain Below)
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Originally posted by 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

 

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

 

--B

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Meercat_Maric

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....

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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. :wub: Then I would have to worry about her taking the eternal sand nap from trying to digest latex. :P

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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?

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CorvetteJoe

I dont use anything.

I usually just jump in nekkid

OH wait, were talking about the fish tank!! :o

 

 

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.

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