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Putting your hand in water

8K views 6 replies 5 participants last post by  Grimmjow 
#1 ·
This may be a dumb question, but how much damage to water quality does putting your hand in the fishes water... like to fix a plant thats uprooted or something.
 
#2 ·
If you have nothing on your hand (eg Lotion, motor oil whatever you been working on) then non. Best is to wash hands w/out soap before adding to the tank water.
 
#3 ·
Thats exactly what I do before putting my hands in the tank... wash my hands in hot water without soap. I just wanted to make sure I was doing the right thing. Thanks Angel.
 
#4 ·
You are doing everything by the book then! :)
I mean if you reach in there for whatever reason w/out washing hands, its not gonna kill your fish instantly, but you know lotion washed in there, grease from working etc etc just like in nature you don't wanna have all this human stuff in a fish world :)
 
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