Have never worn gloves when working in my tanks over the past half decade. Never had anything but an itchy bump or two on my fingers while in my tanks. Heck, we even half tore down our 120g yesterday to find that snail-sliming worm, took smoke breaks and are both fine today. Was a little more careful to wash hands before smoke breaks, though. One day gonna quit, one day gonna quit :exclaim:

Anyway, didn't find that freaking worm. Even did a 2 hour long bath in very high alk, very low salinity water. Only found two crabs that got the old spear through the body :evil: Was definitely in a killing mood yesterday. If we had found the worm, we had a needle-tipped syringe filled with vinegar ready to inject :2gunfire:

Decided that since we have no idea which rock the worm was in, of the rocks we worked with yesterday, only one went back in the 120g. The others went into the 20g. Will wait a few days to see if any snails are dead in the 120g. If not, we will add another rock every 5-7 days from the 20g to the 120g until dead snails turn up again. The last rock to be placed in the tank will hopefully be our worm rock. Will boil the rock, cure it and place it back in the 120g.

Of course, the evil worm could be in the other stack of rock we didn't work with yesterday, in which case, we're back to the drawing board :confused:

Bev, first let me say I'm glad you're well. I somehow missed this thread. Pretty scary experience, I imagine.

Rich,

Isn't that place a gas? The oddest assortment of products, and busy, busy, busy. You can get your prescription filled, buy some tongue depressors (.02 each), pick out a nice bullwhip, buy your dogfood (cheap) and get a tiki torch, all in one place. I'm expecting them to add picture framing and a fresh bakery some day.

Matthew