How do you guys decontaminate freshly collected fish??
#1 Guest_troutperch beeman_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 03:05 PM
Herschel
#2 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 03:13 PM
#3 Guest_troutperch beeman_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 03:21 PM
#4 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 05:56 PM
#5 Guest_Irate Mormon_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 06:30 PM
#6 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 06:45 PM
Apparently one must be careful of the concentration, lest he should accidently wipe out a tank full of cichlids. I know there are people here who would find that to be funny, but let's just assume they were North American cichlids, like maybe Texas cichlids
#7 Guest_troutperch beeman_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 07:55 PM
#8 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 18 November 2006 - 11:40 PM
As far as your original subject is concerned, if you are quarantining for a month, I don't know what else you can do. That seems more than adequate. You can't eliminate all risks, not in the real world. You could quaratine for a year, and something could still happen. You could hit them with all the medicine in the world, and something could still happen. But it sounds to me like what you are doing is quite reasonable. If any of the more experienced people here want to refute that, I'll bow to their wisdom, but you seem to me to be on the right path.
#9 Guest_eLeMeNt_*
Posted 19 November 2006 - 09:34 AM
Just add salt (kosher salt, with no iodine or anti-caking agents, just pure sodium chloride) at a tablespoon per five gallons, into the collection water when bringing them home and into the aquarium.
I just recently learned this from a local pet store. I know it is supposed to be good for the fish, but what precisely does it do? Kill off parasites and diseases?
#10 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 19 November 2006 - 04:33 PM
Just add salt (kosher salt, with no iodine or anti-caking agents, just pure sodium chloride) at a tablespoon per five gallons, into the collection water when bringing them home and into the aquarium.
I just recently learned this from a local pet store. I know it is supposed to be good for the fish, but what precisely does it do? Kill off parasites and diseases?
This sets up an osmotic shock that's often fatal to small parasites but not to the fish. The fish is larger and has osmoregulatory capabilities such as kidneys. Parasites and disease agents are typically too small to be able to handle the sudden immersion into salt water and die from the stress. It's kinda like you're playing chicken with the fish and parasites, the parasites usually lose.
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