Re: leaf prep(sterilization)

["Matt & Linda Crocker" <crockerm@peak.org>]

Colin,

    Did you see the critter come in on the leaves?  Or do you think it
must have?  Maybe it was a slug?  Was it still alive?

    I put some leaves in my A panduro tank last week without doing any
sterilizing and now I'm worried.  It looks very natural in the tank now
and I really like the looks, I'm going to go out and get some more.

    I wonder what cooked oak leaves smell like.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Gorton" <mr_apisto@graffiti.net>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: leaf prep(sterilization)


> 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-----
> > From: owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com
> > [mailto:owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of Matt & Linda
Crocker
> > Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 9:31 AM
> > To: apisto list
> > 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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