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
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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
> >
> ...............................................................
> >
>