Vaping and open top aquariums.

[kottok.motors]

I quit smoking about a year ago thanks to vaping. I'm just curious if there will be any possible ill-effects with running an open top aquarium with this stuff floating around in the air? I'm somewhat of a 'cloud chaser' my apartment is always foggy haha. I use the low-nicotine stuff so that shouldn't be an issue, but the propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin is what I have a slight concern with. These are FDA food-safe ingredients, but what's safe for us isn't necessarily reef-safe. I'm sure no one has really done a study on this, considering how recently vaping has become mainstream.

Thoughts?

 

[Phildirt]

Can't imagine it's good either way especially if your fogging up the place. While I haven't read anything about vaping and tanks, I would err on the side of caution even though it may be "safe" for human consumption. But, in the end it's your tank and your money....

 

[m0nkie]

well my friends often vape in my fish room.. it gets so cloudy I can barely see anything. It's been almost a year. no ill effect on the tank

it's probably worse on me than the fish

room smells nice though.. fruity cake smell all over. mixed with deadly second hand smoke

 

[Sk8r]

I had seahorses in a 1 br flat in Baltimore during my college days. Old place, looked like a Sherlock Holmes set. Neither I nor my roomie smoked.

People in the flat downstairs threw a party. Lot of cigarette smoke. You could see it coming under the door (those flats had about an inch of space under the main door.)

In a few hours my seahorses, a breeding pair of the larger species, were both dead.

That's what I know about it.

 

[d2mini]

I hear reports that the formaldehyde content is higher in these vape liquids vs regular cigarettes. I guess if your fish die at least they will be well preserved. :lol:

 

[kottok.motors]

LOL

Those reports have been debunked already, the trial conditions were 'clouded over' (pun intended)

 

[AdamNC]

Just use the e-cigs. no smell and no clouded rooms. I use Vuse atm trying to help cut back and then quit tobacco completely.

 

[Clmarti78]

Kinda had the same question. Winter time and the house is sealed PH seems to be low in all three tanks. The larger tank and the only open top tank always as had a Low PH issue but the two smaller tanks 30 gallon and 16 gallon saltwater a s well the ph has always been good and now they have dropped. Both me and my wife vape for three years now as well as the other guy I use very low nic and order my own PG VG flavoring and NIC from 3 different sources the PG VG and flavoring from food companies and the NiC from a FDA approved lab. Try to make sure I'm not quitting the cancer sticks for popcorn lung.
Back to the point has any one noticed a drop in PH that vapes and also this time of year with the house as air tight as possible. Truthfully you can always feel a breeze in my house but you know what I mean.
It could have nothing to do with the vape and could be the old furnace as well.
I did do the air stone test with a cup indoors and out doors for an hour with an air stone the out door cup did have a increase of PH as the indoor cup was actually worse than the tank water by a tiny bit.
Any ideas and or same issue so I can stop the vape around the tanks if needed.
Thanks for any input or others with the same results.

 

[Shewillbemine]

I'll tell you what. Before all these gadgets came around, people used to smoke EVERYWHERE. And you can bet that also happened in houses and stores with fish.

I think your tank will be fine. Your lungs, I'm not too sure about.

 

[Tarawa]

I would assume running carbon would help clear the water of any vape gasses. Also if its possible, route your skimmer's air intake outside. Or what I did, route it into your furnace's fresh air intake.