list of scaleless fish?

how come everyone is always making such a big deal of it? I had looked on my
bottles of ick med and the ones at the store and never seen a warning, but i
have read it several times on the interent, that its better to use natural
cures because of the risk of cancer, i was thinking if it was that big of a
risk it should be on the bottle or something like that, i was a little
worried about touching the water with ick med in it.
Nikki

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Let's put it into perspective. The radiation from your CRT and cell phone
should concern you much more than your fish meds.

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:53:43 -0500, "Nikki"
wrote:

how come everyone is always making such a big deal of it? I had looked on my
bottles of ick med and the ones at the store and never seen a warning, but i
have read it several times on the interent, that its better to use natural
cures because of the risk of cancer, i was thinking if it was that big of a
risk it should be on the bottle or something like that, i was a little
worried about touching the water with ick med in it.
Nikki

When you go to the supermarket, do you see all the foods labeled with
warnings about the unhealthy ingredients on the package? The
carcinogenic coatings they put on your fruit and vegetables to keep
them fresh and shiny? Why in the world should an industry as
unregulated as the fish products industry warn you that their medicine
might not cure everything under the sun and might actually cause harm?
-- Mister Gardener

Beats me. People make a big deal of flying too. The drive to the
airport is statistically more dangerous. So was the shower you took
before you left - lots of people slip and hurt themselves in showers.

Most people are in denial about cancer. They worry about tiny risks,
like the malachite you might get on your hands. You want to know what
the biggies are? Start with alcohol, tobacco, and UV from sunlight.
Move on to the formalin, solvents, and plasticizers slowly leaching from
your walls, carpet, particle board furniture, styrofoam cups, Saran
Wrap, and anything new you purchase from soft plastic. If you live in a
city, there's ozone and soot in every breath you take. Then there are
the pesticides you get with your vegetables and the carcinogenic soot
you eat whenever you consume grilled meats. The list goes on, but you
get the idea.

If you EAT a lot of malachite green, day in and day out, you might be a
bit more likely to get cancer. So, fish farms that grow food fish can't
use malachite green. But we're talking eating the stuff in your salmon
dinners over years and years to have any effect. There is no evidence
whatsoever that dipping your hands in a fishtank with very dilute
malachite green in it once or twice will have any effect.

Just use common sense and wash your hands if you have to put them in a
tank with any fish medicine in it.

Nikki wrote:
how come everyone is always making such a big deal of it? I had looked on my
bottles of ick med and the ones at the store and never seen a warning, but i
have read it several times on the interent, that its better to use natural
cures because of the risk of cancer, i was thinking if it was that big of a
risk it should be on the bottle or something like that, i was a little
worried about touching the water with ick med in it.
Nikki

"Altum" wrote in message
. com...
Let's put it into perspective. The radiation from your CRT and cell phone
should concern you much more than your fish meds.

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I guess what I have seen on the WebPages make it out to be a lot worse then
what it is, yeah I try to keep my hands out of any chemicals anyway, but
seems like when your trying hard not to touch something you end up doing it
every time.....
Nikki


There is no evidence
whatsoever that dipping your hands in a fishtank with very dilute
malachite green in it once or twice will have any effect.

Just use common sense and wash your hands if you have to put them in a
tank with any fish medicine in it.

Nikki wrote:
I guess what I have seen on the WebPages make it out to be a lot worse then
what it is, yeah I try to keep my hands out of any chemicals anyway, but
seems like when your trying hard not to touch something you end up doing it
every time.....
Nikki


There is no evidence

whatsoever that dipping your hands in a fishtank with very dilute
malachite green in it once or twice will have any effect.

Just use common sense and wash your hands if you have to put them in a
tank with any fish medicine in it.




I don't keep my hands out necessarily but do make sure I don't get a
mouthful of the stuff when syphoning water out for the changes....

Altum is right, there are so many more risks to our lives far greater
than dipping our hands in a medicated tank - just if you suck to get the
syphon working don't swallow - in fact whether there are meds in the
tank or not this is a nasty thing to do...

And yeah, I often cite the drive to the airport/fly in to the airport
risk factor to anyone that has a fear of flying - but maybe I'm just
mean and increase their paranoi of either activity.....

Gill Passman wrote:

I don't keep my hands out necessarily but do make sure I don't get a
mouthful of the stuff when syphoning water out for the changes....

Altum is right, there are so many more risks to our lives far greater
than dipping our hands in a medicated tank - just if you suck to get the
syphon working don't swallow - in fact whether there are meds in the
tank or not this is a nasty thing to do...

Eh...An occasional mouthful of fish tank water hasn't killed me yet. It
often tastes better than my local tap water. ;-)

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Altum wrote:
Gill Passman wrote:

I don't keep my hands out necessarily but do make sure I don't get a
mouthful of the stuff when syphoning water out for the changes....

Altum is right, there are so many more risks to our lives far greater
than dipping our hands in a medicated tank - just if you suck to get
the syphon working don't swallow - in fact whether there are meds in
the tank or not this is a nasty thing to do...


Eh...An occasional mouthful of fish tank water hasn't killed me yet. It
often tastes better than my local tap water. ;-)


Hey, if you had had to get the syphon working after the pump got blocked
up and restarted on my Malawi tank this morning you would have second
thoughts....algae kill off is too effective - inlet valve got blocked
overnight (in fact is mangled again tonight) - all sorts of crud in the
tank but the fish happy again....had a can of Coke handy to take away
the taste - hopeless at the elbow work to get it going - sucking works
for me....

But yep, no issues with a mouthful of non problem tank water - a bit
musty maybe but nought compared to a mouthful of the River Thames when I
used to swim in it as a kid....

Moments before spontaneously combusting Altum at
was heard opining:

Eh...An occasional mouthful of fish tank water hasn't killed me yet. It
often tastes better than my local tap water. ;-)
================
We have good tap water where I live with little chlorine smell or none at
all. A mouthful of tank water tastes like the water from the nearby Lake.
It smells just like Lake water as well.
--
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Aquariums since 1952
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:47:45 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

And yeah, I often cite the drive to the airport/fly in to the airport
risk factor to anyone that has a fear of flying - but maybe I'm just
mean and increase their paranoi of either activity.....

I've flown about 3 times in my life. Paranoid, for sure. The last time
I flew I found a priest traveling alone sitting right next to me. I
figured he might have some special influence to keep me calm and safe.
He did. As soon as the plane left the ground, he reached into his
pocket and offered me a swig from his flask of whiskey.

-- Mister Gardener

"Gill Passman" wrote in message
...
Altum is right, there are so many more risks to our lives far greater
than dipping our hands in a medicated tank - just if you suck to get the
syphon working don't swallow - in fact whether there are meds in the tank
or not this is a nasty thing to do...


Try using the hose part on the vacuum cleaner to start it, I used to always
have my husband to do the suck on the hose thing and he once got a mouth
full of water, and there went that, so he handed me the vacuum, which works
much better, you just got to be fast....so you dont get water in your vacuum
cleaner.
the fish tank vacuum instructions say to pump it up an down to start it.....
but i make a mess out of the tank when i try and i knocked a fish in the
head that way before, so i dont do it now
Nikki