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"Jay DeLong" <jdelong at nwifc_wa.gov>: Re: NANFA-- More articles...........
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From: "Jay DeLong" <jdelong at nwifc_wa.gov>
To: nanfa at aquaria_net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- More articles...........
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 13:35:21 +0000
Message-ID: <199711202138.NAA00586 at chinook_nwifc.wa.gov>
Robert Rice's article said:
> then dip out your
> fish into the tank, never, I repeat, never dump the water
> into the tank, that is the number one way to transmit
> disease and parasites.
and predators in my case. Periodically I dip algae from a pond and
dump it into a tank of Lucania parva. The killies love this and I do
it for that tank only. I can't get them to take flake or live food
nearly as well as they like to graze on algae and its associated
animal life.
So, I am willing to take the chance of introducing a parasite (mostly
they are in other organisms or in sediments anyway). A couple of
weeks ago I noticed a large molting dragonfly larvae in the tank as I
changed the water. The tank has a very dense mass of Hornwort. I
think the dragonfly was in there for over a month and killed at least
one fish, probably more. I thought I was feeding the fish and the
fish ended up being the food (I'm an idiot). Gotta check that algae
more closely from now on...
Jay DeLong
Olympia, WA
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