Does anyone have cure for "tank hands"? Or a suggestion of some kind of lotion or something that doesn't make me feel like I have to avoid my aquariums for the rest of the day? All this moving around and setting up I've been doing my hands are constantly dry,cracking, and itchy!
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Good old hand cream, but 'bag balm' works for me in the winter.....remember tho....wash it off before reaching in the tanks.
They do make those big old long gloves.
Before I reach in the tanks I rinse with lots of clear water. Normally it's just a finger to check the temp, but it's a clean finger. And don't even ask "What finger?" LOL
I use Corn Huskers works great. When I had my auto shop I was always in nasty stuff. Would dry my hands up. Used Corn Huskers every day. No more dry hands.
Quote from: JR on October 20, 2012, 01:10:48 PM
I use Corn Huskers works great. When I had my auto shop I was always in nasty stuff. Would dry my hands up. Used Corn Huskers every day. No more dry hands.
Yeppers, both are similar.....<"Bag Balm" and "Corn Husker's Lotion" are both good for extreme dry skin. They are old-timey but fairly widely available. Bag Balm is like a very thick paste; Corn-Huskers is a liquid.>
I use Burt's Bees Hand Salve.
It is great. Mostly bees wax.
When I was running the U of O fish room, we tested three hand lotions for toxicity to fish. All four passed: vasoline intensive care advanced healing, renew and protect, natural apricot, and great value soft soap antibacterial with moisturizers.
On the other hand, many lab gloves were toxic, latex gloves (powdered and not powdered). We did find blue nitrile gloves to be non-toxic.
Really, I thought all soap was bad for fish. Wow. And they thought I was too old to learn. LOL
The test was to apply and wash off quickly. Not much soap in that one I guess, or maybe a very soluble soap which will wash off quickly.
A reasonable warning is that there is nothing to prevent the manufacturer from changing the ingredients and creating toxicity. Things get changed all the time.
Yup. There's nothing like contacting a manufacturer and finding out they don't make a particular ingredient anymore. So, you change the recipe.
What other types of experiments did you do at U of O?
Many of these kinds of tests on many materials.
Such as:
Bad O-rings: n-buna, neoprene (although we found some neoprene tubing was OK), and EPDM (some bulkhead gaskets are made of EPDM). I usually just throw out the bulkhead gaskets and substitute Silicon aquarium sealer.
Lots of tubing: vinyl is bad.
Many (but not all) epoxy pastes made for use underwater are are toxic. Syntho-steel epoxy putty was OK.