5 Ways to Protect Your Tank from Contamination

[MarineDepot]

5 Ways to Protect Your Tank from Contamination

A tank in your living room may be surrounded by hazards

 

[BigJohnny]

Great video, but even though you discuss the danger of palytoxin, someone handles a rock and ends up touching zoanthids in an aquarium at 2:25. You should always wear gloves around zoanthids, and glasses really, especially when fragging.

 

[MarineDepot]

Great advice here! Gloves and glasses are an excellent way to help protect your self when fragging and/or working inside the tank. I think it is pretty common for experienced hobbyists to handle rocks and live corals without gloves because a majority of the cases in which palytoxin poisoning occurs it was either ingested or inhaled. Either way, good catch and for the sake of being safe - Always use gloves and glasses when working with poisonous corals!

-Robert @ MD