Don't get discouraged. Remember a man has a brain as big as a football and a
bacterium has a brain as big as a ----
I'm sure you will think of something even better to try.How about genetic
engineering ???
Regards,
Bruce.
Bruce Hansen, A.N.G.F.A., Advancing Australian Aquatics.
Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Sunday, 3 January 1999 6:14
Subject: Re: [RML] Dark half or quarter on rainbowfish
>At 12:06 2/01/99 -0600, Gary wrote:
>
>>I would bet that with a little bit of serious looking you will find that
>>there also are rainbows in the wild that have TB and that it does occur
>>there naturally. I think that in the wild you don't have as many stress
>>points as you do in the aquaria however and you don't see the disease in
>>epidemic proportions as you sometimes can in our fishtanks.
>
>In one of those web sites I posted earlier
>http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch033.htm, the writer goes on to say "In
>fact, nontuberculous mycobacteria have been cultured directly from tap
water
>in several hospitals".
>
>(nontuberculous mycobacteria are the ones we as fishkeeping are most
>concerned about)
>
>I have a horrible feeling that one of the 6 foot tanks that I had "Nuked"
>earlier (last summer) is developing symptoms again. My fishroom
temperatures
>have started to rise into the 28-31 degrees Celsius mark again and a couple
>of large Monticola's are showing "unusual" behaviour.
>
>I think I'm starting to feel I've been defeated by this bacteria :-)
>
>Adrian.
>
> Adrian R. Tappin
> "Home of the Rainbowfish"
> http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
>
>