RE: leaf prep(sterilization)

["Colin Gorton" <mr_apisto@graffiti.net>]

I don't know hat it was but I just got rid of some sort of worm (leach?) from oak leaves that I collected from a VERY dry site. It had been in the tank for a week or so. I'll certainly be boiling all my leaves in future. I must admit I found it hard to believe it when I saw it.
C:)lin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yvan Alleau" <yalleau@coas.oregonstate.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 10:10:06 -0800
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Subject: RE: leaf prep(sterilization)

> Hi Matt,
> I would at least boil them in order to get read of all/most of the bacteria,
> fungi and small bugs (parasite) that they contain.
> It is unlikely however that these critters would survive in an aquatic
> medium if you collected the leaves on land. If collected in swamps, river
> bed, wet banks, ponds, etc.. i would think that their hosts would be adapted
> to living under water and would therefore be more of a threat.
> I think that boiling them will also remove some of the tanin they contain,
> so if you are choosing them for that aspect more than for the habitat (and
> look) they will create, do not boil them for too long. Boiling them would
> also make them sink.
> have a good we
> c ya
> 
> Yvan Alleau
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of Matt & Linda Crocker
> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 9:31 AM
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> Subject: leaf prep(sterilization)
> 
> 
>     I have more oak leaves than I can use, and more than I want to rake.
> Do these need to be sterilized? Or just use them right out of the yard?
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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C:-)lin

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