WC caues me to have a allergy attack???

[reeferboy83]

Ok guys, I have to figure out why when I do a WC I have a terrible allergy attack. Any ideas on what may be causing this? Imagine if you would have really bad hay fever or something this is what its like. This just started happening with this current WC. Anybody??

[Smallblock]

have you changed salt mix? Have you been touching any zoas?

[reeferboy83]

nope....same salt mix and all i'm doing is siphoning water into my WC container. It my sound weird but its like the fumes from the water are causing it!

[merkywater]

may need to change salts or something

[misu]

are you touching anything? take a water sample to your allergy doctor

[WOLFIE]

do you use tap water or RO water?

[Shrimpy Brains]

Originally Posted by reeferboy83

This just started happening with this current WC.

If it was just this last time, could it just be coincidence? Hay fever and allergies are very common this time of year?

If not, do you premix your water? How do you add your salt? When pouring anything powdery, dust gets released into the air. If you just pour it from the bag, this could cause the problem. Maybe? Not sure how you do things.

[reeferboy83]

My tank has been up for about 2yrs and this is the first time this has happened. I use RO water and I'm not doing anything different than I normally do. It just makes your sinus's burn real bad. I have heard of people getting sick when they actually touch a certain type of coral but not from just doing a water change!

[reeferboy83]

Originally Posted by Shrimpy Brains

If it was just this last time, could it just be coincidence? Hay fever and allergies are very common this time of year?

If not, do you premix your water? How do you add your salt? When pouring anything powdery, dust gets released into the air. If you just pour it from the bag, this could cause the problem. Maybe? Not sure how you do things.

Well my water has been mixing for a day so this evening I went in to do the WC and my wife was actually helping me and it did the same thing to her as well. This might be way off but I got to thinking maybe I had an ammonia spike or something. Would that be the same type of like cleaning ammonia fumes?? Idk but the water has been having a real "fishy" smell here lately.

[Shrimpy Brains]

Doesn't sound good. I am wondering if something may have gotten in your water somehow. If the problem that affected you and your wife so bad is in your water. I wonder what it could do to your fish?

Can you run some tests? At least the basics, Ammonia, nitrites, nitrates.

Also, are any of your fish acting strange?