Day 114-122: The dangers of using mercury thermometers

[Firethorn275]

your vid has been flagged

[cannonj16]

this is a cruel video man if you are noticeing a bad chain of happening DO NOT keep doing it! life is a precious thing to waste....

[boulehead]

@cannonj16 Comments like this are worrying inditements of the education system. Please read before forcing an uninformed opinion onto my video. Thanks.

[cannonj16]

@boulehead i apoligize for misunderstanding i saw day 114 ect and thought you were doing this for months. and to have people look at discription you should post it in the video itself so people will actually look

[cndnborn]

That's great. Now how about you get into the tank and we'll see how long it takes you to die? Hmm?

[boulehead]

@cndnborn Do your hobbies include not reading?

[bnewton81]

what idiot uses mercury in anything? Was the pet store out of uranium thermometers?

[boulehead]

@bnewton81 Thats the point of the video.

[afaigen]

and what have we learned everyone? Dont fucking play with mercury or anything dangerous unless you know what you are doing... use gloves anytime you are doing something you aren't sure about.. in fact... go buy gloves AND a gas mask for 8 bucks at your local walmart.  THEN do the thing you thought would be cool.

[wbfields]

To those who didn't read or just didn't understand... he said this was his EXPERIENCE using a mercury based thermometer... EXPERIENCE... not EXPERIMENT.

You obviously had a beautiful tank my friend... sorry that it turned out like that for you.

[JerryGiesler09]

Boulehead, did you said that you used the leaking mercury thermometer as an experiment for the porcupinefish to recover from?!? Get a life, aquarium wannabe! :(((

[boulehead]

@JerryGiesler09 "you used the leaking mercury thermometer as an experiment for the porcupinefish to recover from?" I don't know where you got that idea from. It's both cruel and useless. Reading the description before posting an insulting comment might help you next time.

[HazMatLabz]

mercury thermometers are dangerous. they have found a certain alloy of gallium, indium and tin or something that may soon replace it, just that it has a higher freezing point. it could very well be mercury poisoning in the fish as marine life is several times more succeptible to poisoning than anything else.

[Bigbootyredbone1]

wow yu set up a death trap. your worse den hitler!!! :D

[Normatovai]

oh no, Dory died. D:

[dippy1257]

I was sad to hear that this has happened to your fish, i have just started a marine tank, i have a mercury thermometer which i will be changing now to a digital i have no fish in the tank at the moment,

Hope everything is working out for you now,

[emilyliyo]

...why did you use awesome/ expensive fish? couldn't you have used goldfish, minnows, and fish that wouldn't be completely horrible to lose? and before you draw conclusions, you need to test other fish with a non-mercury thermometer.

[akkalakakalakka]

1:36 R.I.P., Duke. I'll never forget the time you rescued me from that bar fight. You will be missed.

[FinnTheSharpshooter]

Day 114

Auriga Butterflyfish dies

Days in tank:2

[skaterbbycakes]

last one looked like dori from finding nemo(x

[allmetaliswelcome]

poor fishies!

[ThePoeticFox]

Well that just sux. All those pretty fish.

[MusicAndLove217]

Sadfaceeeee!!! D:

[196519751994]

DOWN WITH MERCURY DOWN WITH VACCINES

[kaisaggg]

Fish tank thermometers do not contain Mercury.

[INMORTAL12345]

try one of does paper plastic termometers are like littles adesive paper or some thing like that tose things change of color in diferents temperatures im sorry about your acuarium

[bestamerica]

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i have one mercury switch in my vehicle hood for light off / on,,,

open hood is on the light,,,

closed hood is off the light

[out2of2this2world]

sorry for your fish

[kevinng100]

aww man so many exotic fishes u had...sorry bout that

[peaceonearth347]

aw... poor fishies... :(

[alman53]

why only 35%?

[chirenbo]

Jasus this guy made a sin!!

[dragonbrain111]

Poor fishesD:

[ElectricIndica420]

just start over

[ZenkoAce]

Guys need to chill, scientists make hypothesis and experiment. He came with a conclusion and you guys didn't. So make a VIDEO and prove him wrong. Dicks.

[lockload2]

one your wrong mecury thermometers are the most acurate type you can buy plus they last forever

[aln7d]

epic fail

[kaczmarek3007]

Its your ugly face, don't look at it.

[Kuroikei]

You people are ignorant. Mercury is not harmless. And just because some people get off with swallowing or injecting it doesnt mean it isn't extremly harmful and dangerous!

[Dhadzinsky]

in a closed environment with an active bio-filter the elemental mercury would be converted to organic deadly mercury compounds quickly.... the salt water and bacteria ingesting the mercury would cause problems within a week or two...

that being said elemental mercury itself is pretty harmless... you could swallow a shotglass of mercury and likely be fine... people have tried shooting mercury up IV with a syringe and survived just fine.... elemental mercury is near harmless and is NOT deadly.

[SuperSchoolsux]

nemo

[Dracodeumonis]

As far as I know, You obviously don't know what you are talking about and need to look online for this kind of information and do something about this video, before some one takes this seriously.

[boulehead]

@Dracodeumonis "As far as I know" said with great conviction. What part(s) of the video do you feel are so damaging that it would require revision?

[Dracodeumonis]

@Dracodeumonis

"You obviously don't know what you are talking about and need to look online for this kind of information"  -ha, look! I made a quote!

[Dracodeumonis]

Yoo mispell quarantine. Ha, I m bad at speelig and I can stell speill it rite.

[potterthecockatiel]

I'm sorry this happened to you. you must be lucky to had already have a fish tank

because, my mom's always wanted one... i will warn everyone for you :-)

and is your puffer-fish ok? :-) i know the puffer fish are nice

[drSpirt]

конь чилийский, пиздИ больше, "не специально". На кровать себе разлей блять

[blueblade259]

1:13 dory from finding nemo

[samubabe101]

Thats sad im sorry my fish are my world if that happend in my reef id die

[staphinfection]

And they put this into our teeth..... Thank you dental industry for being cheap bastards.

[marijunhoney]

i truly agree with you. we should ban this mercury thermometer because it is very dangerous. whatever you say mrgroofan i wont wait for danger to come because as you said its not dangerous but here in the philippines we are already banning it.

[joeldeaiz]

NOT THE FISHIEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

[MrGoogfan]

I highly doubt that it was the mercury thermometers. Metallic mercury is insoluble in water, cannot be absorbed through skin, and can even be safely swallowed, It is only poisonous as a vapor, and your fish are not breathing any gas. Also, those are not the symptoms of hg poisoning, That is hypersalinity. "3 days after being in the tank?" Mercury poisoning takes YEARS.

I'm sorry but you are completely wrong.

[boulehead]

@MrGoogfan Okay, you didn't bother reading the description but i'll ignore that.

Just to RECAP, this wasn't metallic mercury. I agree that mercury poisoning takes years, in humans. This was in small fish in an enclosed environment. I never found out when the therm got damaged and leaked, this only documented from the sudden change in conditions.

This is not hyposalinity. Incidentally, i used that as a method of treatment for my porcupinefish which it recovered from.

[MrGoogfan]

Thermometers contain nothing but metallic mercury. Which as i said does not dissolve in water. If you say it was mercury making them sick, then the mercury must have been eaten by bacteria in your tank and was "pooped out" as methylmercury. That is the dangerous compound normally found in tuna.

[boulehead]

Well maybe, you seem to know alot more about it than me and i'll assume by some of the words you've used that you know about it in some detail.

However, this was my first conclusion and nothing in the last 2 years has made me reconsider my view. It's irrelevent now anyway; only surviving through the odd comment every week. But would you prefer electronic thermometer over the old style mercury ones? Or would you still choose mercury given the choice?

[MrGoogfan]

I would still choose the mercury kind. Salt isn't very kind to electronic thermocouples and they tend to lose thier calibration after a while.

[RantzOn]

@boulehead

If you'd rather have a safer alternative, but keep the reading, go for a colored alchemical filled thermometer, Or quickly go to an electric one, but make sure it uses a wire, and not a bulb to measure water temp

[frenchmen88]

@boulehead

Methylmercury is very toxic, but the worst thing that could happen is that the bacterias in your water produce dimethylmercury wich is one of the nastiest thing on Earth. You can read the story of Karen Wetterhahn who was deadly poisoned by a few drops of it on the latex gloves she was wearing, even though she was a specialist in toxic metals. Be really careful!

[yourboycal]

@MrGoogfan what about the 5 percent oxygen in 1 liter of dissolved water that the fish use to breathe . would the mercury ions not be able to attack to that undissolved oxygen ? and inhaled that way ?

[MrGoogfan]

@yourboycal

metallic mercury would have very little effect. however if there is a certain type of bacteria in the tank (forgot which one), some will be converted to methylmercury, an organic salt. organic salts of mercury are particularly dangerous to life, but the metal itself is not.

[thaBoooooogerMan]

@MrGoogfan if mercury can't be absorbed though skin than why is it considered so poisonous? if your taking about the fish's absorbing the mercury then ignore my qyestion

[MrGoogfan]

@thaBoooooogerMan

It is poisonous, like lead. However it can't be absorbed through the skin, and very poorly by the GI tract. It can be absorbed through the lungs though. So if you play with it outside with a slight breeze, you're fine. Just don't do anything with it in a confined space.

What i'm trying to say is, it's not cyanide. Do you die if you hold a piece of lead? No.

[thaBoooooogerMan]

@MrGoogfan one last question before i start to feel stupid for not knowing..

what in the world could this thing possibly have any use for? cant exactly do anything constructive with a liquid.. even if it did create an amazing terminator movie

[MrGoogfan]

@thaBoooooogerMan Make thermometers, Make barometers, Make vacuum pumps. Make sphygmomanometers, Make switches, Make florescent lamps, Make streetlamps, Used as a catalyst in aluminum oxide production, Used as an electrode in chlorine production, Used as a diode in mercury arc rectifiers, ETC.

[callowaymotorcompany]

@thaBoooooogerMan Because you can absorb it through your lungs. If you still dont understand for some reason, try and wrap your mind around it like this: mercury is like tobacco. touch it and nothing happens. Swallow it and you MIGHT get cancer. Smoke it and your boned.

[thaBoooooogerMan]

@callowaymotorcompany

its always fun to undermine someones intelligence isn't it? makes you feel like a man eh?

[callowaymotorcompany]

@thaBoooooogerMan Dumb questions get snarky answers.

[thaBoooooogerMan]

@callowaymotorcompany

lol so because i jenuinely didn't know and asked a question about it,

you consider that dumb? buddy you got some things in your life to sort out if you think that way

[callowaymotorcompany]

@thaBoooooogerMan You were asking it in a pretty sarcastic and rude looking way.

[thaBoooooogerMan]

@callowaymotorcompany

and its your duty to decide whats rude and sarcastic?

[BeatboxingPanda]

lawl, hector is like the best for a fish evar.

[tHisB3MeE]

NOOO! Dory died!! D:

[remboy3000]

how the heck do these thermometers break anyways? do the fish bitch slap it or something?

[Blox117]

@remboy3000 Lol :p

[freakin1random]

Damn, that sucks. I was going to say how you'd be sane if you had tested feeder (gold) fish or something of that sort, but EXOTIC fish?!? Good thing it wasn't intentional. btw i am interested in science and biology. Would nitrates or sulfates hurt fish (in small dose). No i dont or ever will own or test fish. Rats maybe :)

[00LordBacon00]

lol once when i was 4 me and my family had fish. they wer all fine tilll 1 day. the tank was clean but, the thermometer was broken. all exept 1 fish was dying. so one day we moved the fish to a fixed tank. as soon as we did, they all died. exept 1. it was completely healthy and was eating proparky. we had him checked and he was fine. and then when we put him in the original tank that had been broken, he died. can any1 explain this?

[emandemz1]

@00LordBacon00

maby traces of mercury were still in the tank although you attempted to clean it

[MyTattooProductions]

He really missed his friends and killed himself. or the water had a bad temperature.

[freakin1random]

its a matter of time in the tank, shown in this video

[22matt19]

mercury is really hard to clean up i had some and was playing with it in my sink and a few tiny peices spilt out of my hand and i couldnt get them out of the sink cause they were to small the only safe way to get rid of mercury spills is to pour powdered sulfer on them

[bumqui]

@22matt19 HAHAHAHAHA!!!! wow, "few tiny peices spilt out of my hand" genius.

[22matt19]

i know eh lol

[wisermiserdemelser]

1 thing to say.... bye bye fishy =[

[trumpeteerxx]

god get rid of the tank! Dont keep adding fish if you havent Completely Drained/Cleaned the water and tank

[halibel34]

why the hell were you killing fish

[PSSGoA5k4t3]

OMG I LOVE WEED?

[partycafe]

My condolences, it's a damn shame. :( Poor fish..

[bobobano]

my condolences. I remember when my fish died of the same thing (not fun for an 8 year old)

[TehSquishie]

Oh my...

Me too!

I had him for about two years...

[Slic3R1]

you should use alcohol thermometers but i guess you already know that by now

[taffylps]

thats very sad but you going to get new ones & what happened to your pufferfish?

[boulehead]

my pufferfish survived but died 8 months later along with all my other fish when my house had a power cut when we were on a weekend break. I havent kept fish since then, bout 18 months ago.

[4SCARECROWS]

I sympathize with you. I was using the mercury thermometer in the last two tanks of fish I had. I finally noticed the the crack in the thermometer. I think back now and I should have looked at it when it looked damp inside of the capsule. anyway I have not had fish anymore for a long time. Maybe one day again I will though.

[zomgitsgolf]

I don't even know where you would get a mercury thermometer anymore. Nowadays thermometers use alcohol.

[VampressOfDarkness]

Aww that's sad, I'm sorry for your loss

[ubtrio08]

There's a fish called "Duke!" haha 5 stars sucka!

BTW this looks like a twisted undercover reasearch lab expiermenting with a zombie virus something like that

[DeadRiser1]

Fish: O.o FOOD *OMNOMNOMNOMNOM* *DEAD*

Person: FUCK NOT ANOTHER!

[Doothe]

Why did they use cool fish?

Why not goldfish? They suck...

[thecolorofdirt]

Sad video is sad. :(

[mickhick95]

high mercery content in dat fish..... eat it

[shagster1970]

Same thing happened to my uncle. He was taking his temperature rectally with a mercury-based thermometer when it broke in his rectum. He kinda looked like the third fish.

[Travisdjtg]

lol, ur jk right?

[shagster1970]

Would one joke about a toxic liquid metal in one's rectum??

[787310]

dude wtf

[m00ph00]

@shagster1970 i sure could go for an exhilarating rectal mercury douche *squish squish*

[AlexWerkmeister]

ILOVEBENADRYL

[juanauris]

sad face :(

[lilkrunsta5]

take the fukin fish out the water if u know theyre dying idiot

[Nemesishk]

yeah keep them out of the water so they live =)

[ryanuk1981]

oh no,i have 2 tanks with the exact same thermometers in

[philzilla5]

Read the description assholes. Dam some of you are so dam ignorant.

[PashminaAfgan]

you're a jackass y would you just kill fish???

[arhaznook]

Read his text. He did not do.

[LizzyAston]

man i feel so sorry for you. poor guy.

[rainbowwithrain]

I LOVED THAT PINK AND YELLOW FISH

[TheresNoTimeLikeNow]

DUH,

Dude you should have completely changed the tank and all in it once you had two die. Ouch.

[MikeyAncich]

wow that sucks

[OakCliffDavid214]

made me sad

[Jefferdaughter]

Digital thermomenters can be very unreliable, fail without warning, batteries die, they wear out and need to be replaced...

Alcohol thermometers are very accurate, totally relible, and do not pose the same hazard as mercury.

[NASCreations]

Exactly. People think that because a digital thermometer gives a reading to one decimal place, that it must be "really accurate". It's only as accurate as the technology behind it. Some are very accurate, but cheaper ones are rubbish. In the latter case, stick with alcohol thermometers.

[deathblock6969]

wrong digital thermomenters are actually very accuarate try reaserching it and some of them run through wall charge and they usually warn u to change batteries they can be turned of when not needed whitch saves even more energy

[Jefferdaughter]

deathblock - I'm certain that digital thermometers CAN be accurate - but in my experience they often don't even agree with each other, even stored in climate controlled conditions, with fresh batteries. At best, we had to replace them frequently.

I'ver returned to my mercury thermometers, but would rather not have mercury in my drywall, paint, concrete block, etc.

Though always stored in climate controlled conditions, we use them out-of-dorrs, which may contribute to the problem.

[yoyaoo]

if the thermometer was red it was a Alcohol thermometer not a mercury

[killtheraibit]

That sucks

[rodrigoaal18]

:/ poor fish

[animalmastermtd]

so sad poor fish

[kernelist1]

too bad, killing exotic fish for nothing!!!

[cody0006]

oh noes poor pufferfish :(

[robdmhaze]

did you watch the video dumb ass! mercury poisoning.

[Agentoxedo07]

Holy-Terrorist:>wtf, is false video *_*

[boulehead]

what is false video?

[celepaska]

R.I.P. to all fishes :(

Next time try with VX.

[boulehead]

I haven't had a comment in a while so i'll reply:

Yes, as soon as i realised the source of the problem i removed all stock from the tank.

This was after already seperately quaranteening 2 of my sick fish. The smaller fish died. You can't take any chances with puffers though because as soon as they start to die they release poisonous toxins into the water which are fatal, even to humans.

[Onyxwolf3]

ouch yeah that sucks btw as a friendly reminder it is spelled quarantine but good documentation...and that sucks about your fish they were awesome too...

[HmChill]

that sucks. they were probably very expensive. thanks for the heads up

[robborob1232]

sorry for your loses m8

[teerstuhl]

You are just stupid and risked the life of those fishes in order to promote yourself. Anybody would know that mercury is poisonous. You're just amazingly stupid.

[boulehead]

Okay. I'll take your uninformed comment as having not read the description in which i fully explain this video.

I know that mercury is poisonous. Incidentally, i don't see how this video would be used as a vehicle to promote myself?

Please read video description before posting next time.

[JVlapleBoii]

1:15, that reminds me of movie finding Nemo. xD

[tyler121515]

I'm sorry about your fish. That's so sad. I am going to get a new thermometer for my fish tank asap.

[HifiCentret]

Sorry about your fish :'(

Regarding the thermometers. I use one of the new "classic" ones (Geratherm the most known one, TFA and probably others too) which uses galinstan (see wiki for that) instead of mercury. Overall I believe they're better environmental deals. Electronics is polluting to produce and batteries are needed too. And besides the "classic" ones don't run out of batteries (or leak) when needed and keep their calibration (the Galinistan ones are calibrated quite well).

[cornndogg95]

Im sorry about your fish..... did any survive?

[calmetosis]

Sorry about your fishes =/

[BigCowz]

This video probably saved more fish than it killed... we all know its stupid to do but you've learned if you didn't know.

[boulehead]

Thanks for the comment. Its a refreshing change from the ones I'm used to.

[ryanuk1981]

yes i have to agree,im sorry you lost your fish but yea it will save many more

[catsruledogsdrool23]

dude this is so animal cruelty! letting fish live in poisoned water; and you know about it? thats wrong

[boulehead]

Have you ever heard of hindsight?

[mewrox99]

i hope the big fish is ok..

descalchuk1is an idiot btw

[descalchuk1]

Purple and yellow fish was sexy and that shit was basically animal abuse!!!@!@!@@!

[boulehead]

Either your definition of animal abuse is warped or you are really stupid (no offence). If you actually think that this is animal abuse you need alot of growing up to do. Did you look at my other videos; on animal cruelty? on vivisection? What do you see this video as? callousness or awareness?

[descalchuk1]

my friend left that comment..not me lol

[webkinznick81]

the fish died cause of ur stupidty LOL

[ryanuk1981]

that remark shows your stupidity

[Joshay784]

Thats devistating!, im taking my thermometer out....

i barely even check if the temps are right...

[justfakeforyou]

Poor fish. Will he live? who knows..

[silentshaker]

poor fish, that sucks..but thanks for the info. a fair warning about mercury filled thermometers for your fish is a great tip.

[MerkabaStar]

aww man thats messed up!

[DeeHong]

That's seriously some expensive fish! Man i would be annoyed and not return to that shop !

[charzarg]

awwh thats really a shame, i bet it was horrible going home each day and finding one fish after the next going down...

[ShadowRaptor101]

Wait.Did ur blowfish die?

[boulehead]

Not because of this. He did die though, about 8 months later; i've explained that in an older post.

[alkalinetrio751]

you poor mercury in the aquarium???thats bad

[JOK3RxGOKU]

Damn bro that's allot of money in live stock sorry about that

[CookieSwirls9]

last time i checked, those fish are REALLY EXSPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!

[0Krusnik0]

DUDE I'd sue because that is some freaking expensive fishes!

[boulehead]

I cannot claim for this. Reason is because shops still sell these legally for fish tanks, but there is already a legislation waiting to be put in place by the EU which i bans the sale of these type of therms, i think it comes into effect 2010. I should have known not to use this but i was never informed of ANY POTENTIAL risk one could cause, had i have known of one i would have opted for a more expensive electronic one (which i use now). Its not worth the risk IMO.

[nbaietti]

holy shit the porcupine blowfish has exactly the same face as E.T.!!! (spielberg´s.. with elliot... u get my point...)

[boulehead]

yes it did, more and more so as he/she got older and bigger

[thecatandthefiddle]

Gah, I went through that same thing. Funny thing is, I lost all my fish except my five year old plecostomus. xD *has freshwater fish*

[weyder4]

that's so sad I would sue SUE! SUE! SUE! :( sorry......

[respeanut]

thank you for posting this video! mercury thermometers should never be used in the aquarium

[MyNameIsJonasTY]

:( Poor fishies.

[drplbiftin]

damn, that's a sad loss. At least now you know