Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #379

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• Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #379
• From: Jim Kostich <jkos at execpc_com>
• Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:00:43 +0600

>From: "A. Inniss" <andrewi at u_washington.edu>
>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:42:57 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: Copper as snail killer
>
>	Since copper is such a good snail eradicator, I was wondering
>whether anyone has experimented using diluted solutions of say CopperSafe
>as a plant dip, or even intoduced low levels of copper directly into the
>aquarium.

I've used Coppersafe at full strength in snail-infested tanks with no
visible loss of snails after 2 weeks, so I don't imagine a diluted,
short-term bath will accomplish much.  Even the now-unvailable "official"
copper-based snail-a-cides took days to weeks to work.

jim

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