Anyone wear long gloves?

Do you wear gloves for placing your hands in your aquarium?

  • Yes

    Votes: 75 49.3%
  • No

    Votes: 77 50.7%

  • Total voters
    152
I just started using shoulder length gloves a few months ago and absolutely love them, They obviously don’t provide the dexterity as bare hands but for most tasks they are fine.
 
I wear gloves when messing with anemones or if I'm fragging but that's it. Just doing normal stuff I don't do any prep and no gloves.
 
I wear gloves. One because I don’t want to risk contamination but mostly because of my maroon clown who thinks my skin is delicious....
 
These are the ones I use


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I wash hands thoroughly without soap, wear latex gloves before going to the tank.
 
Have a pair up to the shoulder but too thick. Long food service might be better but have not seen any around.
 
I use these:
Disposable Artificial Insemination Gloves livestocktool.com
$20 for 100 disposable.

they are for inseminating cows and horses not fish :D



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I use the long vet animal examination gloves with a nitrile glove on the hand and elastic band around the wrist.
 
Shoulder length gloves here for as much of the maintenance as I can to avoid contamination in both directions. I do find there are times when I just can’t do the work that is needed with the cumbersome gloves though and I will wear the gloves sold at BRS instead that are tightly fitting but only wrist length. Not sure how necessary it is, but I figure if it doesn’t bother me to do it, the effort isn’t hurting anything. :)
 
I was searching through aquarium cleaning products on Amazon and came across long gloves.
Do many people wear them or is it just a very small percentage of tank owners?
I wear two different kinds: the thicker tighter aqua gloves when I don’t need dexterity and I wear veterinarian Exam gloves with a surgical glove over it when I need more dexterity

50Pcs Disposable Soft Plastic Film Gloves Long Arm Veterinary Examination Artifici... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078KB84KC/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_HfBICbBGSZ7R8
 
No but I will start as I have a urcin that I really dont want to hit on accident.
 

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