Re: [RML] Disease

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:14:13 +1000

Chlorine bleach dips for plants have been advocated on the APD for algae
inhibition but I have no idea whether any studies have been done on fish
disease control effectiveness.

Regards,
Bruce.

Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.

Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm

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> From: Graeme Finsen <gfinsen at brs.schneider.com.au>
> To: 'rainbowfish at pcug.org.au'
> Subject: RE: [RML] Disease
> Date: Tuesday, 10 February 1998 9:20
>
> 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.
>