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Levamisole Hydrochloride killed our fish | 23 comments (23 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
That was a confusing discussion. I wasn't sure (none / 0) (#20)
by unclescott on Fri Apr 27, 2007 at 04:45:30 PM PST

where you got your 695 milligrams. The various formulas for mixing up assorted stock solutions lost me too.

I think our confusion was partly in converting ounces into grams into milligrams. Looking back it shouldn’t have been so hard. We muddied the water by adding a set amount of the Levamisole to different quantities of water.

Eventually a couple of us started with Charles's suggested 5 grams for 100 gallons. That easily breaks down into 1 gram for 20 gallons, 1/2 a gram for 10 gallons. Charles himself had previously suggested saving some of the Levamisole by just filling the 10-gallon tank half way and halving that half gram.

You had, I believe 52g, of which 46.8g was pure Levamisole. That is not a whole lot of extra filler.

When miskairal pointed out that a standard teaspoon held 5g, I though, why didn’t I just suggest that you take 10 baggies, put a level teaspoon’s worth in each and maybe one of those jells which pulls moisture from the air in each baggie as well. Then you could use 1/5 or 1/10 of a baggie for your treatment. And what guy has ever measured a LEVEL tablespoon? ;)

Yesterday I needed to mix a certain(eyeballed) amount of sodium thiosulfate to renew my 30-gallon RubberMaid trash is used to declorinate previously bleached equipment. It takes swishing it around in a jar with a little hot water to dissolve most of it. Then I added enough cold water that I could pour that pint into the larger container and it was good to go.I don't know why we got so hung up on those various solutions. Maybe different people  had different quarantine containers around the house.

Oh! And I'll remember that 1 ounce = 28.35 grams or 28,349.5231249 milligrams. That's just the thing to bring up at breakfast. ;)

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Hey now! (none / 0) (#21)
by Scott Lockwood on Sat Apr 28, 2007 at 08:33:33 AM PST

And what guy has ever measured a LEVEL tablespoon? ;)

Uh, THIS guy, for one! :-)

Remember, I was a lab tech, so being anal retentive goes with the job. That's why this is so distressing to me - I don't want my math error to be responsible for someone else's dead fish! Now mind you, I'm skeptical that it is, but I have taken the precaution of bumping that article back up to the front page, and have put a big warning on it.

Sigh. I wish Charles would weigh in (ba-dump bump) on the issue.

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker
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