Don't suck on that hose!

[Scott.h]

So dumb question. Why doesn't anyone ever get this from swimming in the ocean? Is there just that much more bacteria going on in a tank?

 

[Reef Nutrition]

I have been suck starting siphons for 25 years now. Never had a problem, and I can tell you, I've gotten a mouth full on multiple occasions. LOL

Chad

 

[Mark Gray]

I have been suck starting siphons for 25 years now. Never had a problem, and I can tell you, I've gotten a mouth full on multiple occasions. LOL

Chad

Only way to fix that is swallow it and chase it with a minimum of 5 shots of your preferred alcohol LOL

 

[brandon429]

I always find myself getting about-faced regarding peroxide at the moment of ingestion

all day long am posting on forums how using it doesn't affect your tank bacteria, and then when ingestion occurs im assuming with intent that all bacteria hate it and die immediately and peroxide is my best bet maybe combined with two Listerine runs

Scott H. on goog there is an article about a man swimming off coast of Texas, Corpus I believe that caught it. it certainly does happen in ocean

isolated cases happen anytime we are in association with ocean materials. natural selection literally

I would posit a portion of readers here have already encountered it at the microbial level more than once it just happened to find no real entry.

Regarding ocean effect on cuts, Ill never forget the time in the Caymans where after one day scuba diving a rather decent little cut on my finger had mostly healed. in the dirt of west texas it was easily a 10 day heal, the divemaster told us cuts heal faster after diving those pristine waters he was right.

if a vibrio would have landed there=bad.

 

[Scott.h]

Only way to fix that is swallow it and chase it with a minimum of 5 shots of your preferred alcohol LOL

vodka obviously. I'll continue to believe it grows bacteria in a tank, yet kills it in my mouth. Plus it's always laying around close by. However I'm not sure which tastes worse. Probably the 5oclock.

 

[Reef Nutrition]

Only way to fix that is swallow it and chase it with a minimum of 5 shots of your preferred alcohol LOL

Need to keep some Jägermeister at the farm. [emoji23]

 

[Mark Gray]

Need to keep some Jägermeister at the farm. [emoji23]

Naw we make our own LOL

 

[LbulletM]

Hmmmmm anyone tried Jägermeister dosing?

 

[2Wheelsonly]

I inhaled flat worms/sand/who knows what by doing that. I remember last week I was siphoning out red flat worms and was having a hard time getting the siphon started..I sucked up so much water on accident when I was spitting it out into the bucket I could see flat worms with it lol.

I survived bad roid cycles, motorcycle accidents, a divorce and the military. If my fish tank kills me maybe its just my time to go.

 

[Mark Gray]

Hmmmmm anyone tried Jägermeister dosing?

I tried it on more than one occasion but I found after dosing a bottle I was feeling no pain until the next day

 

[Fish Werx]

I figure if I get enough tank water during WCs that I dont have ot sweat drinking milk for my calcium! Hahaha!

 

[MichaelD]

I have a fuel siphon squeeze thingy designed to use for kerosene. It has only ever been used for the aquarium. Works great for me. Just rinse it real good after use in saltwater. I like it because I can use the squeeze bulb to remove water from the sump after it gets to low to siphon. Shop vacuum works well here too.

 

[Jbryan243]

Here's the dumbest thing I've done; I had a nice clump of xenia floating around and it had drifted under a rock so I came up with the great idea of sucking it up in some hose. Worked like a dream until I remove my finger from the opposite end with the hose still in my mouth, down the hatch it went water and all.
I'm still standing!

 

[mcarroll]

I guess that depends.. if you're only drinking the water neat, it should be fine.. if you plan on using it to swirl up your single malt, that would be a travesty.. to the single malt of course.. you'd be just fine... [emoji6] [emoji12]

You must have missed the documentary "How Beer Saved Civilization" (or was it "...the World"?) where they made beer from duck pond water.

Perfectly safe to drink post-ferment.

 

[LbulletM]

I tried it on more than one occasion but I found after dosing a bottle I was feeling no pain until the next day

We had Jager Olympics in my fraternity. It hurt that night, that day, and the bruises persisted well past that.

 

[Tautog]

Well, that's it, I'm done...........I told my wife, when I die, feed me to the fish

 

[Scott.h]

I have a fuel siphon squeeze thingy designed to use for kerosene. It has only ever been used for the aquarium. Works great for me. Just rinse it real good after use in saltwater. I like it because I can use the squeeze bulb to remove water from the sump after it gets to low to siphon. Shop vacuum works well here too.

have you considered saving yourself the hassle and just suck on the end of the hose?