cheezischrist
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i did a massive water change late last night, like 14 gallons out of the total 33 in the system. all of my corals kind of freaked and slimed up. in the process of this i moved alot around and stired my sand bad vigorously. was also not wearing gloves. i have acros, montipora, xenia, tons of zoas and pallys, yellow pollyps, green cloves, mushrooms, hairy mushrooms, frogspawn, anthelia, colt corals and candycanes, tons of assorted snails and hermits, serpent stars, coral banded shrimp, sally lightfoot, and a few fish. a clown, green chromis, sixline wrasse, and bluespot goby. didnt think and didnt put on gloves before getting in the mix of the tank. about a half hour later started getting an awful headache behind my eyes and like asthmatic type breathing, wich i just blamed on allergies from our weather changes here in jersey and tried to go to sleep. well now ive been up all night on the toilet so to speak, and still ave the headache. chills i was getting ave ceased for now, and my breathing is getting better, but the other thing hasnt. i do have a few decent cuts on my hands from work. did i just get a flu or cold, or could something in my tank have caused this? im more worried about my niece who likes to "pet and hand feed nemo" and my girlfriend whos obsessed with servicing my tank than me, because i seem to be recovering