Sprays And Aerosols?

[jackson 10]

i have my tank in my bedroom,

i was wondering can deodrant and prefumes cause your tank any problems as sometimes my room is hard to breath in with all the deodrant sprays in the air etc

any ideas ?

 

[Truck]

you should never spray aerosols in your fish room, the aerosol is emmited into the air as a liquid but travels, and can enter the water and wipe out your tank, if it has a lid there shouldnt be any problems.

but obviously if you bedroom is a cloud of aerosol then do it somewhere else

HTH

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yup, do it in the bathroom or something like that!

even wth a lid on the tank is not totally sealed.

 

[andywg]

you should never spray aerosols in your fish room, the aerosol is emmited into the air as a liquid but travels, and can enter the water and wipe out your tank,

Slightly gross exaggeration there. Can you point me to one person who can categorically state that their entire tank was wiped out due to aerosols? I highly doubt it.

I have often sprayed aerosol in the rooms my fish tanks are in with little noticeable effect. To the OP, if there is a cloud which causes breathing problems then I might suggest that you are spraying too much regardless of what else is in the room.

 

[Truck]

yes my sister had her tank wiped out. she uses loads of aerosols in her room, and her tank was wiped out so i looked inside the tank gave it a sniff and you could smell the hair spray

 

[MHunt]

I always avoid spraying anything too close to the tank, it may not wipe it out, but it probably won't do the fish any good in the long term if there is a build up of the chemical over time.

 

[shibby]

yes my sister had her tank wiped out. she uses loads of aerosols in her room, and her tank was wiped out so i looked inside the tank gave it a sniff and you could smell the hair spray

thats not very good scientific reasoning is it ? a sniff told you hair spray killed fish impressive !


i try not too spray in same room as my fish though if it makes me splutter cant be good for them, but i have never heard of a total wipe out, unless i was to grab a can and unload the contents directly into my tank!

 

[Truck]

yes i know its not very scientific, but you dont question it do you? if you know its not good for your fish? its just plain common sense

and there was a scum on the surface too. with a sticky residue on the sides

 

[helterskelter]

I lost over 2k's work of koi at the farm i worked on, when a window cleaner got glass cleaning spray into the vats nr the house.....

 

[malakye]

My friend killed her fish by spraying too much hairspray in the same room as her fish, ok it didn't happen over night but did happen over a few weeks she basically poisoned them. Everyone had told her not to spray in the same room as the fish but she thought she knew better.
Cat and dog owners when treating for fleas will tell you also that most aerosol treatments tell you not to spray in an area with aquariums as they are toxic to aquatic life.

 

[Truck]

girls eh?

 

[helterskelter]

LOL thats why i sahve my head...... i dint have these problems anymore

I only smell

 

[malakye]

lmao

 

[andywg]

yes my sister had her tank wiped out. she uses loads of aerosols in her room, and her tank was wiped out so i looked inside the tank gave it a sniff and you could smell the hair spray

And you knew this to be the case by a smell? How do you know she had not sprayed after the fish died but before you went in there?

I hope you will forgive me for putting that down as an unknown cause rather than definitely aerosol.

I lost over 2k's work of koi at the farm i worked on, when a window cleaner got glass cleaning spray into the vats nr the house.....

Having a glass cleaning chemical actually placed into the water is not the same as it being sprayed into the atmosphere in the general area of the vats. It's like comparing an ammonia cloud in the atmosphere to pouring ammonia straight into the water.

My friend killed her fish by spraying too much hairspray in the same room as her fish, ok it didn't happen over night but did happen over a few weeks she basically poisoned them. Everyone had told her not to spray in the same room as the fish but she thought she knew better.

And it couldn't have been a bacterial/viral infection/bad keeping habits/issue with the water supply?

Cat and dog owners when treating for fleas will tell you also that most aerosol treatments tell you not to spray in an area with aquariums as they are toxic to aquatic life.

And I daresay they also tell you not to spray it on your body/hair due to the chemicals in flea treatment being designed to kill. Not exactly the same sort of sprays I understand the OP to have referred to.


Unless you have an open topped tank then the amount of aerosol that can make it into the tank will be very small.

 

[malakye]

Oh it was hairspray, the tank had a film of the stuff over it and the tank and water was actually sticky.
Why the need to dispute it so thoroughly though?