Aquarium safety

Aquarium safety with children

Safety tips (7)

Tanks 30g+ at 4 ft floor height - prevents fall-in drowning risk for toddlers

Lock equipment cabinet (chemicals, dosing pumps, GFO are toxic if ingested)

Supervise feeding - kids overfeed; results in ammonia spike

Never let kids touch coral - palytoxin in some zoanthids is lethal

Glass tanks with low rims - clear acrylic safer than tempered glass for breakage risk

Teach: no hand in tank without parent present

Battery air pump for power outages prevents fish suffocation while parent is awake

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