Re: plant auction preparation

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Kate Breimayer wrote:

> Does anyone have a preferred method of sanitizing plants? 

I haven't done anything other than wash off washable algae and duckweed
for many years (though I should note that if there's more than normal
healthy bits of algae, or the plants came from a tank I even SUSPECT may
have disease of any kind, I won't sell it... Kathy makes me destroy the
plants in those rare cases).  At one time early on, I used alum to get rid
of snail eggs, and it didn't hurt anything... not nearly as bad as bleach,
which is just nasty on many plants!

Actually, you CAN find a lot of interesting hitchhikers on the plants you 
buy.  We've had a killifish, a tetra, a while cloud, and even a CORY 
CAT(!) spontaneously grow from plants I bought or moved between tanks.

See you all at the auction on Tuesday... I can't wait to see what comes in!

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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