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A Pretty Good Solution to Pollution | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

bleach (none / 0) (#14)
by Nate on Tue Nov 11, 2003 at 04:33:27 AM PST

unc-Just for the record, I tossed a few gammarus into a tank ahead of the bleach and it dropped all of them. But a couple days later the same water did show some critters of some sort when I put it under the 'scope.
I've never been able to get gammarus to culture in large numbers but if you have excess java moss, it helps. Methinks it's their favorite Baskins and Robbins flavor.

One interesting point to throw out about bleach. Several years ago I put about a quart of bleach into a 20 gal that contained a few sickly gups. Killed all but one. He swam about merrily for a couple weeks. He expired when I stirred the mix.
Moral of story: Bleach settles to the bottom, folks.

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I think the Java moss is likely to be more (none / 0) (#15)
by unclescott on Tue Nov 11, 2003 at 05:33:59 AM PST

valuable than the gammarous. :) Once raised a nice crop if them in a 10 gallon tank crowded with Aponogeton crispus. Dropped a pair of Epiplatys in there and the gaping holes in the crispus went away.

Daphnia (in several species) are so much easier to raise as live foods, gammarous (also in several species) aren't really worth the bother.

Fishing bait dealers will sometimes carry a large gammarous species for bait. Somebody way up north must have dedicated a big old pond or old swimming pool out in the woods to their culture. Those gammarous - also called scuds - probably could take a guppy two out of three.

Smaller scuds (not the missiles) will also live beneath a u.g. filter plate (at least one without bleach), work through the gravel, and provide tank residents with a surprise snack.

Good Night!
u.s.

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A Pretty Good Solution to Pollution | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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