Handling Zoas?

as a mechanic i always have nicks scrapes on my hands and never worried about it till one day i had a small scrape on the palm of my hand went about some maintnence got light headed and my heart started racing before then never thaught about them being poisoness

long gloves i use here Aquarium Maintenance & Cleaning: Heavy Duty Aqua Gloves

 

Yes.

You can submerge the entire hose under the water, put your thumb over the end you're going to put into the bucket, put it in the bucket & let go (gravity feed, bucket lower than the tank). That's what I used to do. My boyfriend wasn't very good at it, though, so we bought a small 80 gph pump and attached a hose to it. Put it in the water, turn it on (via a powerstrip), and change your water quickly.


There are also other things in your tank that can cause infections if you have open wounds, so gloves are a good idea.

 

try one of these, I have one so much easier!!! Siphon Aquarium Look on ebay and copy and paste that on there. U can find em for as cheap as $2

 

Wait, a water change.... your syphoning.... and you get zoa juice in your mouth? You do water changes my mouth? use a hose not a straw! lol

j/k, I'm just messing with you.

anyways, gloves and or eye pro, bacis protection if you was doing some garage type degreasing or cleaning and youll be fine. A trip to the hardware store will have with you need.

 

Yes, definitely wear gloves. You always should wear protection when you're messing around in your tank. And if you're fragging zoas, wear eye protection as well. I've heard of zoas squirting people in the eye and causing problems.

If you have broken skin (even from dry skin) you can get nasty infections from your tank. So just be careful!

 

Thanks to all this is one of the things we should be telling newbies to the hobbies we always say check your parms buy this not that but we forget to tell them that some of the stuff we own can kill you. I am always careful. Wash hands before and after playing in the water no cross contamination between house hold and tank stuff. This is a wonderful hobby but we are playing with mother nature and we all know she is a mean old lady. Again thanks to all.

 

Article from Discovery: World

 

I read somebody was fragging several colonies of zoos and touched his lips and eyes on a break after fragging and only lightly washing with tap water. He ended in the E.R. with a crazy reaction and closing of his airways. Respect nature.... it can mess u up!

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Usually I do water changes, aqua-scaping, and the like bare handed, I've touched bristle worms and zoas (zoas were on accident though) with an open wound on my arm and one on my finger (not bleeding of course) and the worst that happened was 1 bristle was stuck in the wound, easy enough to find and pull out though. The water also helped scar up my wounds. I guess I was either lucky or just don't have a reaction to it. I will be wearing gloves often now. Wonder why this info isn't more widespread? Seems very useful.