bad habits while working on tanks??
- Thread starter flukekiller
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My bad habit is having a few (too many) adult beverages while doing water changes and taking a lot of breaks. I've got 5 tanks and it often takes 6 hrs+ to do a water change. The wife hates it, but I have a great time. She thinks it's a waste of a perfectly good Sunday afternoon. Seems to me it's just a perfectly good Sunday afternoon.
Reminds me of meiling who went into septic shock from Edwardsiella Tarda. Lots of nasty stuff in our tanks.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/the-unseen-dangers-lurking-in-our-tanks.101941/
When I was undergoing chemotherapy, my fish bit my finger when I was standing on a step ladder waggling my fingers in front of him. My oncologist was horrified that I even put my hand in the tank. Because of all the pathogens in a fish tank, the oncology unit in the hospital would never consider a fish tank to grace their facility. And it wasn't as if the cancer patients would be putting their hands in the tank... The renal specialists have a big salt water tank in their waiting room, but oncology is a whole different matter.
Definitely food for thought....that a slight break in the skin could introduce a deadly pathogen to us.
Ha ha!!! I still stick my unprotected hands and arms in the tank, unless I have a known open wound. Guess I'm the gambling type...
<---------- wades out to his chest or even goes underwater to retrieve snagged fishing rigs/lures
My appendix also still works, apparently
Didn't keep me out of the lake this summer, even with findings of cyanobacteria up river.
