i second the shoulder length gloves ESPECIALLY if you're stirring stuff up or have any cuts/scrapes on your hands. I'm less concerned about fouling the water with 170 gallons of water volume and more worried about opportunistic infection.
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Nitrile imo offers the best flexibility and protection. Don't bother with anything else.I'm overwhelmed at the response to my posting - great to hear all your feedback. I'm assuming any latex or rubber glove inside the tank is safe, and ones sold and branded as Aquarium safe might be more marketing?
My yellow tail damsel in the one who parana's me!Same here - these clowns are krazy - more like piranhas they are.
I bought some of these thinking they would stave off clownfish attacks! They do work for that purpose but I have found for gloves they sure aren’t water tight and I end up getting mad and tanking them off anyway as I eventually feel like I have water ballons for fingers when I am trying to work in my tank. Now it’s a 2 man job….me spot feeding/gluing plugs down while my wife chases my male clown away with a net. 85% of the time he is so focused on biting me that she just scoops him up in the net.I don’t wear gloves 99 % of the time. But I do keep calfing glove that are shoulder length and really thin. You can buy at tractor supply. I have them for times I’m working on greasy engines or have cuts. Not sure what they call them , but will be by the medication isle in livestock.![]()
I"m curious how many here all wear gloves when working in the tank for whatever reason. For example, commercial gloves for aquariums such as coralife aqua gloves - they are expensive no
I"m curious how many here all wear gloves when working in the tank for whatever reason. For example, commercial gloves for aquariums such as coralife aqua gloves - they are expensive no doubt!
I have a particularly skittish Foxface Lo so I tried cut proof gloves but they got soaked… I use nitrile gloves whenever I remember. I have a box “floating” around the tank All the time from Amazon. My wife is an ER doctor and there has been a recent uptick in palytoxin cases in the US so she always reminds me and insists on it when present. TBH if I’m just doing something quick, I don’t use them. Fragging? Definite yes.