gymmynzl

Just checking to see if you got my address ?

Hey living art, can i get some nano off you please, I'm going to raise some more clowns see if i can get a decent amount of occ this time

let me know how you get on ? i might have to see if i can hit you up for some nano again the clowns are now big enough to be given to some people / sold

I suggest that you get some 35% food grade H020, I used 2.9 mil (3) in 10l of salt water this should make it about 80ppm, I add it to the water give a quick stir and add the fish ASAP, leave them for 30 mins but keep a close eye on them if they start becoming overly stressed take them out. 80pp was tried with out stress on Clowns, damsels, Banghii , blue tangs all tolerated it really well. The research articles have tried up to 300ppm but that had 100% mortality rate, 150ppm had 0 mortality rate but this was on a fairly hardy type of fish. you need a high enough concentration to break through the slime coat on the fish G

OK, so i have run a little experiment, a good friend of mind got whitespot in his tank so we decided to see what we could do to really treat these fish and his tank. We decided to use H202 and a QT tank.We had to set up a new tank with all clean equipment etc to make sure there were no parasite infection. We then soaked the fish in a bucket, no air supply into the water 75-100ppm of H2O2 for 30mins, prior the fish were quite "gaspy" and had visible "whitespots" , After taking them out and placing them in the new QT tank, with in 1 hour the gasping had ceased and the whitespots gone. I was quite amazed, we left his main tank free for fish for 14 days (which is a little short , but because the fish were in a small tank and the NH3+ kept going to high we decided not to leave for 28 days 3 weeks on, no sign of WS, no fish gasping. I have decided to soak all new fish i get in H202 prior to them going into the DT, my friend is stoked, and to top it off no fish deaths !!! I did a small gill biopsy and viewed under the microscope and there were no visible parasites. If the fish weren't in such a bad way to begin with i would have done a small gill clip prior and looked so no real "Science" but i can say it did work, and fast with no side effects. Goodbye copper, hello H202.

Here are a few papers which i was talking about which you might like . http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa157 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HqJ ... in&f=false and i have this Journal Article "The Application of Hydrogen Peroxide as a Treatment for the Ectoparasite Amyloodinium ocellatum (Brown 1931) on the Pacific Threadfin Polydactylus sexfilis" which i can email to u if u like Cheers Gymmy

That would sound right. The Hydrogen Peroxide interrupts the free swimming stage, so if you catch it early on in the cycle it works amazing. Each time I've had the nasty WS, it has saved my bacon.. well saved the fish with other treatments like copper it always stressed the fish to dead, and the nice thing is the H2O2 is reef safe win, and win. There is a product out there called Aqua Medic, by PolypLabs, when used as directed it works really well, you should check it out

Yeah which is cool, kind of like gardia in humans, but the resistance is only short lived about 6 months The articles you linked were some of the best i have read, awesome find. Ciliated Protozoa are one of the most trickily organisms to treat in both fish and humans !

yup, do a google search on "hydrogen peroxide Cryptocaryon irritans" and you should get a ton of results back. Every time I've got ws it has sorted it out and haven't had an outbreak in 6 years now, mind you i also haven't added new fish for that amount of time either. some of the fish are getting on to 14 years old

great articles, was a little surprised to see they didn't use Hydrogen Peroxide, its reef safe and works very very well. Much better than copper. G

any what to spare ?

NZPOST are hopeless ! they have lost it, last track they have of my stuff was hamilton !! HOPELESS !! so this time ill get it sent by DHL !!

cheers, if you include your address ill send you some of the other stuff I've got, that should arrive on friday its left the US yesterday

hi, Sorry to sound impatient but i do really need to know if i can source the nannochloropsis off you, if not its all fine and ill submit this permit to import my own cultures. If you can let me know either way would be great Cheers A.