Can our prescriptions affect our tanks

Can Medicines we take leach from our skin and affect our reef tanks? I know different prescriptions i have taken over the years have made changes in body oder but can they leach from ones skin and affect our fish and corals.

 

HMMMMM that is an interesting question. If so my fish will not have high blood pressure. I am interested in the answer to this as well. I just don't think that much leaches out of the skin but who knows.

 

If that was the case I would be taking some viagra regularly to get my fish to breed!!! Heck, I might try it anyways!!

 

Its just something i wonder about being i take several different ones sugar, hart, blood pressure, ect. shooed i be wearing gloves.

 

I think that it can...my mother was having a real hard time keeping anything alive in her tank. There was no explanation for why her fish kept dying.

She has massive heart disease and is on so much heart meds, along with many other health conditions, plus she is on a lot of pain meds and other medications. We finally started to see a trend...when she would do maintnance, she would loose fish by the next day. She did not use any lotions or anything on her body.

So we tried something and had her stay out of the tank..and just like that she did not loose anymore fish! She did get some coralife gloves so she can work in her tank...but healthwise she is not really able to keep up with it so I do it.

 

should probably wear gloves no matter what...esp with diabetes. If you get a cut on your hand or something you can not heal as well as others. In reality we all should wear gloves.....

 

I would have never thought that much could leach out but hey you smell of garlic when you eat it so I guess in theory it could happen

 

Im sure it can, if corals can catch herpes from people, Im sure other things as well...

 

what??? what does the herpes do to the coral?? thats crazy