Preventing Soap/Oil Contamination

[GoatmealJones]

If soaps are toxic to marine life, yet your arms and hands have oils on them if unwashed, then how does one go about safely adding their arm into the tank without contaminating the water? Is there some kind of special soap?

 

[norfolkgarden]

Lol, Dawn dish washing soap works extremely well. The original blue unscented, un anything.
I don't like the direct foam. Leaves too much of a film on me.

If I am working with diesel or a lot of bug spray and Sun tan oil in the summer, I will try to avoid putting my hands in the tank for a day even after using Dawn.

 

[MTBake]

I just wash, rinse and dry well. Sometimes I don't even do that and have never had an issue.

 

[Instigate]

I use Dove unscented bar soap. Whether it's soap, or any other product I look for all natural ingredients or at least unscented.

/But I don't stop and wash my hands and arms unless I know I just had motor oil or something like that on my hands.

 

[SJ Blane]

I also use Dawn dish soap and then rinse very well with warm water.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

I rinse off unless they are dirty, then just wash. Unless it is a pico tank, a majority of issues would dilute before becoming a problem.

I cleaned and water changed my 180 this am. I was washing the algea off my hands during and was wondering why my hands were kinda of slippery. I had put lotion on last night and it did not fully wash off. No big deal.

 

[fish farmer]

Rinse well after washing.

FWIW I've used many cleaning products around fish in my aquaculture career, bleach, quaternary disinfectants, Virkon, the latter two are "soapy", rinse, rinse, rinse and you are fine, don't rinse or use too much, you kill things.

 

[norfolkgarden]

I rinse off unless they are dirty, then just wash. Unless it is a pico tank, a majority of issues would dilute before becoming a problem.

I cleaned and water changed my 180 this am. I was washing the algea off my hands during and was wondering why my hands were kinda of slippery. I had put lotion on last night and it did not fully wash off. No big deal.

Lol, just noticed your avatar. What kind of mastiff is that?
The ruler of the mastiffs?
[emoji846]

 

[Mastiffsrule]

My rescue kitty I got this year.
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