vaping around fish tank safe?

[Juiceh]

I understand about the gas exchange this is why I keep ventilated tops. So from smoking inside my room I now shouldn't be doing water changes? Ahahaha. Oil sticks to surfaces, its the same when you put a lot of treatments in the water, its easily fixed and poisoning fish? That actually what I wanted to hear, if you could go into detail about this that would be great. The reason I no longer smoke heavily in my room is for this exact reason. I just thought I would post what happened to me, god with the way your posting my trimacs will be swimming round with nic patches on them next! I am posting because I would rather my fish do not get poisoned lol anything else?

 

[hooliganATV]

Don't ever smoke or vaporize anything near your tanks. For any aquarium to be successful, there is a large amount of gas exchange between the water and the atmospheric air around the tank. The dissolved oxygen in the water doesn't just appear... it comes from somewhere. It comes from the air directly around it.

It's not good for you to be inhaling that stuff, and it's certainly not good for it to enter the body system of a much, much smaller animal. Play it safe and don't do it.

Definitely don't vape around any land animals, or air-breathing fish. Or better yet, don't do it at all.

That is disgusting. Might as well not even bother doing water changes if you're so cavalier about smoking up your fish. If there is literally residue on the surface of the water after you vape, you need to consider moving your fish, vaping somewhere else, or giving up one of the two. Spending all the money all fishkeepers do on your fish only to poison them through carelessness like that is mind-boggling to me.

i would be interested to see the proof of a 80% vegetable base product, nicotine, which is found also in a lot of plants as a natural insecticide, and maybe 10% of a harmless cloud producing mixture used in smoke machine (extensive research done in hollywood for actors) leaving 5% of POSSIBLE harmful airborne toxins at a rate of about 0.5mls every 1-2 hrs is going to cause a great deal of issues in a fish tank. on the other hand i would like to see what other airborne products cause in terms of damage such as household cleaning products, deodorant, shower gel, washing powder on clothing, general exhaust residue picked up on clothing etc etc etc that get brought into our tanks. i would also expect a keeper with such high value of prestine water conditions you strip naked and shower in nothing but pure spring water and enter your air tight oxygen feed fish room to keep all the above out of your tanks lol

please don't take that the wrong way but basically keeping fish in tanks is bad for their health. all my tanks are covered, with an air gap of a few mm around the top and a couple of inches from top to water level leaving plenty for gas exchange, most of my tanks are in hallways and room where i don't generally sit vaping watching them. none of my tanks have oil film or even vape marking (anyone who vapes heavy in a car will no what i mean) how ever i do believe there is a realistic level we have to keep when keeping any animal in our homes, we use many things we take for granted day to day that are harmful to all manner of creature great and small.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

If you're doing it properly, keeping animals is not bad for their health. Animals in proper conditions in captivity regularly outlive their wild lifespans.

I'm not minimizing other possible household contaminants. That's why you should always wash your hands before working with your animals... and rinse them thoroughly to make sure there is no soap residue.

 

[Dieselhybrid]

Non issue.
I own a vape shop so It's not uncommon to have my employees and friends over and have 10-20 people in my place all vaping while I'm in town. mechanical and boxed mods. Sub ohm tanks and drippers. It gets thick with vapor. The only oil slicks I notice is after feedings. I don't buy the settling vapor theory to that extent. I have tanks at both of my houses and I'm a heavy vaper. If this were a danger I am the posterboy test and would have had negative effects by now. As oddball said wash hands and don't dump it in the tank. like anything else that contains potentially harmful ingredients that don't belong there.

 

[Dieselhybrid]

i vape all the time, sub ohm and 3mg, 80% Veg glycerine, im pretty sure from all the reading that as it's a vapour and your lungs absorb something like 95% of the nicotine. there is little risk of the fish dieing from a veg based product. more likely to suffer more from household products used and carried by clothing and the breeze through the house, soaps on your skin etc. when you exhale cig smoke there is still a large amount of other toxin in the smoke, vaping is a vapour not a smoke no toxins.

I agree it looks to be less harmful than smoking. There's no carbon monoxide which is the real killer and primary carcinogen from smoking. Also the cause of tar and emphysema. This would be my concern if I was a smoker doing it around tanks. Carbon monoxide occupies hemoglobin space in red blood cells. This is the shuttle where the body's oxygen is transported in the bloodstream to tissues. Because it's occupying this space, there is less oxygen transported and less CO2 removal. plus the carcinogen is delivered to every vascular tissue in the body. After smoking, the body takes up to 8 hours to remove the carbon monoxide.

Smoking is terrible for anything living, no matter what it's being Smoked. I take comfort that carbon monoxide is no longer in my body and environment.