Re: plant auction preparation

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

thanks, I was just wondering.

I have heard other people/hobbyist say the same thing as you.  ie....give 
it a fish free time.  (the times all differed from a week to 3-6 months) 
and if all looked healthy do a hot water rinse and put them in (not hot 
enough to cook).

Kathy


On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, steev ward wrote:

> 
> 
> >or would you
> >let it be longer for bacteria.
> 
> There are exceptions, but some fish-pathogenic bacteria are actually difficult
> to culture in-vitro. More importantly, as was mentioned during the height of 
> the
> anthrax threat, there is a lower limit to the number of disease organisms 
> needed
> to cause disease.
> 
> Obviously when you have an outbreak of a very contagious disease like Ich or
> Velvet you'd want to be very careful about spreading it by passing out samples
> of water (especially since these two diseases have an encysted reproductive
> phase). I'm just saying that, statistically, when plants are taken from tanks 
> of
> fish that are even moderately healthy there is only a low probability of 
> passing
> a disease along. Most of these parasites work very hard at finding and staying
> on fish. There are differences for each disease of course.
> 
> Steev
>