Gloves

[::pete::]

:-D Super Sensitive :-D

[wkopplin]

I have the gloves that Josh referred to as well and they are too thick. Plus mine sprung a leak between the glove and the sleeve. The gloves have been in my tank all of three times. I ended up with a handful of water inside the glove.

[PeeJ]

who else get super dry hands in the winter time? my hands crack open badly and makes cleaning the tank a pain

[GaryP]

Putting your hands in saltwater will only make that worse PeeJ. Salt pulls the moisture out of your skin.

Gary

[Instar]

I use powder free surgical gloves. To keep the water from getting logged inside the gloves, I slide a rubber band that is my wrist size over the glove to the cuff.

Why use gloves? Some predatory gorgonians will die if you touch them. Some of the slime really sticks to your skin and other specimens may react very badly to that. Gloves don't have too much carry over and are easy to wash off. There are also 2 bacterias that can grow in cooler salt water that will make you very ill. All of our reef things should be kept clear of food areas, or if you use the kitchen like I do, clean the sink and counters well to avoid contaminating food. And one big one for me is those palythoa are very poisonous to tank and to us. Bristle worms can't sting thru gloves and neither can a carpet. You don't want to get stung by a recoil of a carpet, I'll guarentee you that. They don't do much to protect from a foxface spine and really nothing to protect from a large trigger mouth, but, thats not what they are for anyway.