Has cleaning your aquarium made you physically ill?

Has cleaning your aquarium made you physically ill?


I don't mean cleaning your aquarium is a pain.

I mean...

Have you ever gotten sick and wondered if it was from cleaning your aquarium?

You can also state if you have gotten a rash from a coral or fish, etc.. if you like. Please provide what you've done to prevent it since.

I picked up a wicked sinus infection this week that I had to get antibiotics for. I kept going back to a couple days prior when I took a mouthful from the siphon cleaning my big filthy turtle tank. But who knows... what about you?

 

itchy yes........sucking water from a turtle aquarium? dude, don't you know they carry nasty nasty stuff salmonella I think or it's one of those where you get double ended sick.....

 

Yeah turtles are 'special' that way. What about you?

 

itchy arms is just about it. usually goes away after I wash with fresh water.... I try not to drink the water from or swim in my tank

 

often wondered my self ' if flu/or a stomach ache has been started from tank water'..
( wear gloves ) and wash hands with anti-bacteria soap , rinse thourghly !

 

I get ich, but with a freshwater dip and my slime coat comes back. Other than that, no.

 

most divers that spend their time on a reef handling the corals end up with the same ailment that the corals have

 

I have a friend who dives frequently in honduras and has "diver's rash". There's also a reservoir I used to swim in with signs posted to the same effect- apparently copepod "shells" can irritate the skin.

I recall from the herpecological days (a former hobby involving lighting and tanks) being warned of salmonella in aquatic reptiles.

Worst I've had from the salt tank is dry hands and a salty laptop.

 

Never a problem from frequent mouthfulls of water syphoning water from SW tank.

From a turtle tank

I get sick just thinking about it.

 

I have had a few animals to send me to the emergency room a few times .. Had a Mantis to bust my finger once had a ell to bite the hell out of me and I have been hit by a Lion fish on the forearm and that made me a tad sick for a day or two.
As for siphoning You are not supposed to get water on your mouth

When I was a gear head Kid we called the siphon hose a Carolina credit card Pull up to where they parked the old school buses and have a cold one and filler up LOL Hight Amoco whit 105 octane I learned to not drink gas and then I just applied my refined technique's to saltwater .. A 105 octane is not like the watered down stuff today it burned!