Re: diseases

[Donald Nute <dnute@ai.uga.edu>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Tsuh Yang Chen wrote:

> this is an embarrassing question, but what is a good way to get rid of
> ick?  a lot of books i read say to usemalachite green.  where does one
> buy that?
> 


My experience has been that if you raise the temp to about 90F for about a
week, it kills ick. Most tropicals have no trouble with this, but you
should monitor them to make sure they don't appear distressed.

Donald Nute
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