Steve
andrew.boyd at dfat.gov.au wrote:
>
> G'Day Graeme
>
> Potassium permangenate will certainly kill snails in gravel, and
> indeed even the dreaded "black" algae but it is a bit severe - the
> gravel needs to be treated afterwards to remove the traces of the
> chemical. Lots of washing and scrubbing ;)
>
> An alternative is one of the many copper-based "snail-rid"
> preperations - but be warned - the amount of copper that needs to be
> added to water to kill the burrowing snails is often toxic to fish.
>
> I haven't had a snail "problem" for many years now, can someone
> recommend a better way?
>
> Cheers, Andrew
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [RML] Disease
> Author: MIME:gfinsen at brs.schneider.com.au at INTERNET-MAIL
> Date: 2/10/98 2:42 PM
>
> Thks Andrew,
> Would you think that this would work against those little barstard
> burrowing snails??????? I'm having to boil my gravel to get rid of them
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Many Tanks
> G
>
> > ----------
> > From: andrew.boyd at dfat.gov.au[SMTP:andrew.boyd at dfat.gov.au]
> > Reply To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> > Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 1998 12:49
> > To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> > Subject: Re[2]: [RML] Disease
> >
> >
> > Howdy Graeme, once apon a time I obtained some Vall from an untrusted
> > source - I
> > made a killer brew of 30 percent vinegar and boiling water, coloured
> > it pitch
> > black with Potassium permangenate, and left the plants in there for 15
> > minutes,
> > making sure I had washed every scrap of soil from the roots.
> >
> > The plants were fine - after thier leaves grew back ;) The object of
> > my
> > particular exercise was to kill snail eggs - it worked. This
> > Vallisneria went
> > on to grow thickly in a 120 gallon tank, until I put some blasted
> > Severums in
> > there and they mangled the lot ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > ______________________________ Reply Separator
> > _________________________________
> > Subject: RE: [RML] Disease
> > Author: MIME:gfinsen at brs.schneider.com.au at INTERNET-MAIL
> > Date: 2/10/98 11:35 AM
> >
> >
> > I have recently aquired some plants (Crypts) that came out of a tank
> > with what I suspect are TB infected rainbowfish. Does anybody out in
> > RML land have a procedure to sterilise plants of TB and/or other
> > infectious nasties.
> >
> > I was thinking of using diluted liquid pool chlorine and "dipping" the
> >
> > plants into it, and into fresh tap water several times.
> >
> > Any ideas would be most appriciated.
> >
> > Many Tanks
> > G
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Bruce Hansen[SMTP:bhansen at ozemail.com.au]
> > > Reply To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 1998 8:39
> > > To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> > > Subject: Re: [RML] Disease
> > >
> > > I'm not sure that 2 weeks is long eenough to get the TB to be
> > evident
> > > -
> > > probably it is only long enough to stress the previously latent TB
> > > into
> > > activity and then it will take a few weeks to really crank up
> > >
> > > Then I guess it depends how stressed they were and how long it took
> > to
> > > batter their way through from breeder to wholesaler and holding
> > before
> > > shipping out.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Bruce.
> > >
> > > Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
> > >
> > > Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > > From: Adrian R. Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
> > > > To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> > > > Subject: Re: [RML] Disease
> > > > Date: Tuesday, 10 February 1998 5:46
> > > >
> > > > At 19:22 8/02/98 -0500, Denise wrote:
> > > > >Yes, DVM is Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and I work for a
> > tropical
> > > fish
> > > > >wholesaler in the U.S.
> > > > >
> > > > >_Mycobacterium_ is widely spread here too among many tropical
> > > fishes and
> > > > >others. There was an incident last summer in which a red drum
> > > re-stocking
> > > > >program had a small percentage of fish infected with
> > > mycobacteriosis.
> > > The
> > > > >media had a field day intimating that there was a significant
> > > chance for
> > > > >human infection from such a disease. Not that it can't happen,
> > for
> > > it
> > > can,
> > > > >though the zoonotic potential is quite low. Those of us in the
> > > business
> > > now
> > > > >use the term nontuberculous mycobacteriosis instead of "fish TB."
> >
> > > >
> > > > All live fish coming into Australia have to go through a 2 week
> > > quarantine
> > > > period. However according to a reliable source many of these fish
> > > are
> > > coming
> > > > out of these quarantine establishments grossly infected with
> > > mycobacteria. A
> > > > percentage of them die in the retailers tanks and the rest are
> > sold
> > > to
> > > the
> > > > unsuspecting public. I would hazard a guess that if samples were
> > > taken
> > > from
> > > > retail pet stores that most of them would return a positive test
> > for
> > > > mycobacteria.
> > > >
> > > > Adrian.
> > > >
> > > ...............................................................
> > > > Adrian R. Tappin
> > > > "Home of the Rainbowfish"
> > > > http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
> > > >
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