Danger's fish tanks hold to people

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What dangers have you run into with water or fish tanks in general?

EDIT: Hm, perhaps I opened a can of worms. There are many more people that believe there is no possible way for what follows to happen... I'm surprised though due that I have not had this happen since I was very young from occasionally playing with some farm cats and dogs, or rolling around the yard occasionally... or maybe eating that mud pie that one time...

So, I didn't know this but you can apparently catch ringworm from a fish tank! A couple years ago I was doing routine maintenance on my tank and apparently had a scratch on my arm that got tank water in it. Low and behold a short time later I developed ringworm. Since them I take care in inspecting my hands and arms before doing my changes. I considered wearing the gloves you buy at the store for washing dishes but I think they have lots of chemicals that would get in my tank.

Palytoxin poisoning after dermal contact with a zoanthid coral.

eeeesh that sound ugly

yes it can be nasty this guy got a good squirt in the eye while fragging a zoa.


I was watching a news program a couple months ago and they were talking about tank dangers and this young girl had her hands in the tank cleaning the glass not realizing she had a open sore on her hand she ended up getting an infection and ended up having her arm amputated and that was a freshwater tank.

Yikes getting a squirt in the eye that would burnnnnn