Swallowed saltwater

[georgelc86]

Well I think people dont even think about this stuff on a grand scale. Since we see it in our tanks more often we think about it. I go to the beach just to drink the water. The herpes and syphilius helps with my atheletes foot.

 

[mandown123]

lol george isnt it amazing the confidance we have in NYC beaches? I think Manhattan Reefs should start our own petition of GE to clean up the Hudson

 

[georgelc86]

Not a bad idea. I remember being a little kid and swimming along with the needles floating to shore at Orchard Beach. Since then I have been on a personal crusade.

 

[mandown123]

Food for thought

http://www.clearwaterfestival.com/pcb.html

http://www.epa.gov/hudson/

http://www.cleanupge.org/pcbs.html

 

[ZBT3091]

george i think our stomaches have a ph much lower than 6.2 - thats almost neutral. stomach acid is probably between a 2 and 3 ph. very acidic

 

[georgelc86]

Just did some research andI was kinda right, the stomach pH can range from 1.5 to 7.0, depending on the stage of digestion it’s in. Pepsin, the enzyme responsible for protein breakdown, needs an acidic environment and therefore gets released into the stomach when pH is low. The stomach pH continues to fall, and at about 2.0, fat collects into globules and the “bolus” of food makes its way to the small intestine. Your small intestine is where most of the nutrients in your food get absorbed, and where the pH increases from 2.0 to 6.5 as the food passes from the stomach to the small and large intestines.

 

[jejton]

ok my bad, I thought this was about sucking water out of a tube to get a siphon started to do a water change, not to start an overflow box. that doohickie wont help me Kathy.

 

[georgelc86]

Jet why dont you get one of these jammies. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3728+18018&pcatid=18018

 

[neptune]

now just drink some calcium and alk ...and be a walking body reef...j/k i made my girl siphon the hose and she swallowed the water..because i daised off for a sec looking at my corals oops"......shes fine

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

You wshould be fine today LOL Tastes like cr@p doesn't it?

 

[m'akoyPINOY]

:lol2:

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

Drink a Corona six pack 4 shots of tequila, 6 shots of Vodka and 8 shots of Bacardi Rum, There you should have enough to throw up for about a week and clean your system let me know how it works out. lol....

that sounds like a normal friday night for me.lol. you should be fine if you swallow a little salt water never hurt me in 5 yrs..

 

[Tito]

I guess a Python is too expensive

 

[yiliyang]

Next time you need to start a siphon, just point the hose opening at one of your wave maker or power heads in the tank. You only need a trickle to get the siphon started.

A reef tank water is probably bad for you since there are coral toxins in there, but unless you drink a whole gallon, you would probably be alright.

It would be a good mental exercise for you to not think about how many times your fish went to the bath room or had sex in that gulp of water you took in.

Yili