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Just curious about the thickness. Like medical gloves or thick like reef or dish gloves?
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Squid
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Ahhh. I've not yet tried to physicslly frag anything. I prefer to let them attatch to loose rocki place around them then snip and pull them out. That maybe why I'm alive. Lol and wiseguy! Ha ha hado you have a tank thread Koletang? I'm not real good at naigating the site.
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I tried those...once. They got cut up to $&#% just from moving my rock around.
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You will also have to take in to affect that some people sink is more tender and susceptible to stings then other peoples.
I for one never use gloves, I have some nems in my tank that I have never got stung from and noticed.
I for one never use gloves, I have some nems in my tank that I have never got stung from and noticed.
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I don't think the reason people wear gloves is even remotely close to the rarity or seriousness of a shark attack. When handling LR for example there's a good chance there's bristle worms in/on it, and from what I hear those give a nasty sting. Also if you have a cut why take the chance of infection..? Sure it won't kill you (most likely) but neither will getting your legs amputated, just both are inconvient
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I get quite the allergic reaction to bristle worms stings... have had my fingers swell up a few times over the years. Now I use powder free latex gloves most of the time to prevent any issues.
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I've handled bristles bare handed. No biggy for me. As the pic shows I always have had cuts on my hands for 8+ years. I'm fine. So as far as I know with almost a decade of experience in this exact matter. The risk of even bacterial infection is small. But that's not to argue. To each there own. Just my experience.I don't think the reason people wear gloves is even remotely close to the rarity or seriousness of a shark attack. When handling LR for example there's a good chance there's bristle worms in/on it, and from what I hear those give a nasty sting. Also if you have a cut why take the chance of infection..? Sure it won't kill you (most likely) but neither will getting your legs amputated, just both are inconvient
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I wear black nitrile gloves from Lowes. It's $10/box of 50. I have had reactions from torches, zoas/palys, and an elegance so anytime I am fragging corals or getting an elegance placed in my frag tank or a bag for a customer I put gloves on. My reaction to torchs and the elegance was a red spot the created an itching sensation and swelling. The zoas/palys actually left multiple red spots that raised and dried out over a period of about a week.
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Read the thread. Unfortunate. I'm glad he's ok. Smart enough to go to the dr right away, good for him. Bacterial infections are rough. I had a woods teacher in high school who had the same experience from a rusted nail. There is risk in all things. I suggest if you are concerned to where gloves. As that thread suggested they should be thick enough to not tear of slice. Bht in the end I still believe this is not as much of a concern as u think personally. How many users are on these reef boards. Gotta be 100s of thousands. These stories are scary I agree. But I'm willing to bet other hobbys or proffesions are worse. I don't want to take away from those who heed the message. Just my personal decision.
Yesterday I took my bare, cut up hands and pulled all my macro out of my fuge. Then ran my hands through the sand bed and took all the larger rocks and rouble out. Trying to better the enviorment for worms an bugs. Some of the bigger rocks were buried and resistant to being uprooted. I scraped up my hands even more. Once even pulling my hand back quick because it felt like I grabbed a nail. As the rocks came up there were clouds of waste that came up with them. I smoothed the sand and made one wall of rock against the back of the fuge and kept the sand bed just sand. Replanted all the macros. And took the sponge that caught all that crap to the sink. Ran it under water while squeezing it repeatedly. Defanitly gog some scrapes there to. What is in that sponge. Lol. After sorting out the sump I moved some of my display a bit. Usung some of the sump rocks. About 2 hours of scraped up hands in nasty water. The nastiest. When I was done my fiance said I had old man hands. Meaning wrinkled and white. No injury at all. Some scrapes. A little itchy. Thats it. These infections do not happen often. And you are more likely to be hurt doing half the things a normal persom does in a day.
These stories are bad. But you find them in anything we do. Anything! Please take them for what they are. And don't freak over every tale. Its a simple thing to wear gloves if you want. But leave the hobby!! NEVER
By the way, I found my lost pistol shrimp in my fuge. Lol yay! What do you guys think of the new look? All those rocks and more were buried under the sand. Now I have no sand. Lol
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Also I would like to point out the guy in that last thread post has been a member of rc for 10 years probably reefing longer. On thing goes wrong in a decade or more..... ill take those odds anyday.
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I mainly use gloves when handling rock. Makes me worry less about whatever is inside and also prevents cuts on your hands pretty well.
iloveswfish
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i wear them for 2 reasons..the first is cause my skin on my hands peal from the saltwater and takes days to heal up. the second reason is cause i am alergic to super glue or any of the glue that is like super glue.
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