[Delphinus]

Troy, are you talking about skin irrations and surface infections, or are you talking about airborne pathogens being introduced simply by keeping corals?

Personally I'm still skeptical that the mere act of keeping corals might be the cause of "stomach flu like symptoms." Unless some of the tank water was somehow accidentally ingested.

Stomach flu like symptoms can be caused by many things. Contact with food that had contact with someone who doesn't wash their hands, or eating food that is slightly beyond its prime can be enough. Drinking water in a foreign country -- we all know about Montezuma's (sp?) Revenge .... it's not that the water is "bad" it is simply that the microflora/microfauna in it is "different" than what we're used to. But the lowest common denominator in all these potential causes, as far as I knew, was that there was something ingested or inhaled that should not have been.

Granted there are situations where sickness can be brought on by skin contact. But I didn't think our typical tank waters contained anything so virulent. I could be wrong though.... Maybe the CDC in Atlanta should be looking at the practise of reefkeeping??????

[Edited again: I need to learn to stop making typos.]

[ 10 January 2002: Message edited by: delphinus ]