bumps on arm

[Trump]

Has anyone every gotten poison ivy like bumps on their hands and/or arms after putting them in their reef tank?

 

[fishman1069]

Your probably allergic to something in the tank. You should get the aqua gloves

 

[reefman]

what corals do you have? you probably got stung.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Happens to me all the time. How long do they stay for with you?

 

[jcolon2]

I have. For me, I am sensitive to the high salt concentration. And twice I received bumps from being bitten by bristleworms. And in Mexico (obviously not directly related to my saltwater tank) I broke out in hives due to the seaweed in the water.

 

[reefs4life]

Happens to me everytime my arm rubs against my LPS. For me it lasts for about a week though and it's not constantly itchy, it just looks bad.

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Gotta get my gloves before i go hand swimming now thanks for the heads up everyone

 

[e.muehlbauer]

That happened to me once. I got a poison ivy-like rash on my finger, about 2" long and .75" wide. Since I got it from my tank, I figured that I should have it checked out. I went to my dermatologist, who took a scraping and prescribed bactroban cream, an antibiotic. It disappeared within hours after I put on the cream, so I am assuming that it had to have been bacterial in origin.

 

[tentacles]

You could be sensitive to the salt, could be allergic to something in the tank- there's no way to really tell. Best to just be cautious and wear gloves.

 

[jerl77]

My hands tingle a lot when ever I touch saltwater

 

[rookie07]

my skin get really itchy in the dead sea, and couldnt take it. But I have never had any issues in my tank, I have touched my RBTA and every kind of LPS/Softy, never a problem.

But now I often wear reef sleeves from thefiltergiys.biz just to be safe.


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[h2o]

what ever it is its not a joke and things like that have to be looked at by a doctor .
I pinched my finger on live rock ones and when i woke up the next day my hand was huge all blue and purple no finger movemet i ran to the emergency room ! got a bunch of shots, and the pain ! and i had to stay there the whole day

 

[Mattl22]

Wow I have never had a problem touching the corals bu have felt a little woozy after fragging zoas