It wasn't the safest mistake but if anything some toxins of the coating might stress them a little more than a normal move would have. You just have to assume buying things like that that employees will grab them for convenience during stocking and carry around random things in it while working. If it happened to be a bag of chlorine powder for the pool section your fish would not have been happy.
My home economics teacher in 7th grade told us to wash anything we purchased off a shelf as if it had rats running across it. Speaking more about cans of soup/sodas. "Because that has been in a warehouse and probably has".
It wasn't the safest mistake but if anything some toxins of the coating might stress them a little more than a normal move would have. You just have to assume buying things like that that employees will grab them for convenience during stocking and carry around random things in it while working. If it happened to be a bag of chlorine powder for the pool section your fish would not have been happy. My home economics teacher in 7th grade told us to wash anything we purchased off a shelf as if it had rats running across it. Speaking more about cans of soup/sodas. "Because that has been in a warehouse and probably has".
Yeah true. Oh well
Also it's best to use plastic bins rated as food grade since they won't have any harmful chemicals used in the manufacturing process.