Did you know ur tank can give you diseases?

check this out. Fish Tuberculosis

 

wow.........speechless.. i think now i want to start using gloves..

 

that's one of many things that can contract from your aquarium. Vibrio infections, mycobacterium marinum (Granuloma) and a whole host of other things. Fish TB is very rare and chances are the average hobbyist will never even see it.

 

ya i know its rare but perhaps many cases are being misdiagnosed. a guy i work with had it, says he went to many doctors before he told THEM what he had.

 

My local coral grower just spent 3 days in the hospital over a bad bacterial infection. forget the name. Fragging colonies with a splinter. moved up his arm. All better now, but it does happen.

 

Yep. For people who mouth-siphon water like I have to do occassionally with our U-tube, getting diarrhea is common. There's someone on 3reef who once said he used to have diarrhea all the time, until he learned it was from mouth siphoning with his saltwater tank. I forget who said this though...

One of the biggest rules in this hobby is: don't stick your hand/arm in the water if you have an open/recent wound. My mom and I have always adhered to this. If my hand's cut from rock climbing or kayaking or whatever, I either only stick one arm in the tank or she does everything. And vice versa. She had surgery on her hand at one point and I was the sole hand-in-the-tank person for 2 weeks.