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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #430

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #430
From: Paul Nicholson <paul at eisusa_com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:47:48 -0700
In-Reply-To: <199808051948.PAA01913 at acme_actwin.com>

At 15:48 -0400 8/5/98, Steve Pushak <teban at powersonic_bc.ca> wrote:
>Subject: Giardia
>
>Never drink aquarium water. Wash your hands before handling food.
>Consider your aquarium water contaminated mainly by Salmonella but also
>by amoeba and a hoarde of other protozoans and bacteria. I think Giardia
>requires an animal host to survive... true or false?
>

I drank a mouthful of aquarium water by accident a couple of months ago
when I was starting a siphon. I suffered no adverse physiological effects.
My kids, however, did not fail to point out that fish poop in it!

Paul

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