I am highly sensitive to zoas and palys so only wear gloves when I have to handle them.
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Agreed I mess with zoas and pallys all the time. Nothing bad for me
I find it hard to believe that story about a guy boiling his rock and releasing gaseous paly toxin which nearly killed him. I believe it's like one of those urban legends people make up that has it's roots in truth but in itself is made up. Like something mythbusters would test. Perhaps it was true, but people are just taking it for fact and relaying it like they knew the guy which makes me question it.
Anyway, I don't wear gloves or any protective gear, but i do plenty of stupid stuff the average person wouldn't haha
Glove advocates, have you over swam in the ocean? Were you wearing a swim suit or a full body dry suit for protection.
Unless you are fragging zoanthids, handling sharp objects, have an open wound, etc. I don't see why anyone would wear gloves in the tank. There isn't anything in the tank that you couldn't come in contact with in the ocean.
Not every zoa or paly has the toxin. The risk is getting it in the blood stream through open wounds, eyes, inhaling, etc (possibly even absorption through the skin). Its more of a threat when you are directly handling them than it is when your hand is just in the tank.
If you judge success by doing something and not dying from it, maybe you have a calling as an EOD.
I judge by how many have bad things happen as apposed to nothing. And my hands always look like this.
Feel free to laugh but my hands never enter my tank without these on,
and I never handle any coral without latex gloves. I don't like what SW does to my hands, which in turn causes me to put massive amounts of lotion on them and than I fear forgetting about the lotion and putting my hands in the tank. My gloves give me peace of mind
Driving is horrable statistically. You don't? I'm beating a dead horse. Sok. Ill take my chances. Gloves make things too hard. I can appreciate why some swear by them.
Gloves make things too hard.
steveoutlaw said:You hear stories and you think, "wow, that's aweful.......but that won't happen to me". Well let me tell you.......I thought the same thing and now I'm in more pain than I care to imagine. BOTTOM LINE - BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU HANDLE ZOOS.......THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU.
Driving isn't as good of an example because there are so many variables and you may have control of the situation. This is more akin to picking up random snakes in Australia and assuming they aren't venemous.
Reminds me of a kid refusing to put on his coat in the winter lol. Whatever floats your boat I guess man.
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Its not that they are a pain to put on. I can't feel what i'm doing. Thing slide out of the smooth surface. I would not know if my arm was crushing my frogspawn head while i reach past it.
I've been touching evverything in my tank for 8+ years.