rubber bands

[big_fresh]

Anyone know if rubber bands leach chemicals into the tank?

 

[clutterydrawer]

i have them in my tank holding down some java fern and ive had no problems. i think this is a common method of holding down java fern so tehy cant be too harmful.

 

[Silly me]

Main material is "rubber", usually natural rubber, but some types of synthetic rubber are also used to obtain certain specific quality depending on the application. Besides, fillers such as calcium carbonate, carbon black, clay and additives like sulfur, stearic acid, zinc oxide, wax, oil, accelerators are mixed into rubber as ingredients.

Natural rubber contains a series of water soluble or extractable proteins (called "EP") which were reported to be a cause of allergy to the human body when contacted over a long period. Particular attention was bought up over the use of surgical and examination gloves. As these thin rubber gloves are commonly manufactured using liquid natural rubber (called "Latex") collected from rubber trees, they are called "Latex Gloves".

Word "Latex Free" is often used to mean "Not made from natural rubber latex" or "Not contain natural rubber" in order to indicate indirectly "No risk of latex protein allergy".

Edit

Rubber band made of solid dry natural rubber contains the extractable protein below 20 micro-gram per gram of rubber band (mg/g) even for high rubber content rubber band. CEC rubber bands show even lower extractable protein (EP) content because of additional washing of the products in it's production process.

meaning its save to put some rubberbands in your tank.

 

[Phantom Thief]

LOL!!!

Silly me, thank God for your last sentence. I didnt have a clue what you were saying!


P.T.

 

[Silly me]

I was worried that ppl wouldnt understand, thats the reason for the last part..

lol

but atleast now you know why or why not..

 

[Vip]

Silly me, is your other hobby collecting rubber bands?