Re: NANFA-- ohio darters

Robert Carillio (darterman_at_hotmail.com)
Mon, 07 Aug 2000 18:59:58 EDT

This might work, but lets remember folks, these are small fish, and can be
stressed easily. I have found that it sometimes may be better off to leave
the situation alone. "If it aint broke,... don't fix it!"... HA!... This is
not Shamu we are working with, they're small darters. I hope your fish do
great guys, and please keep me informed on their "up-bringing", as I have
sometimes found Greensides to be a difficult fish. They need lots of
preferred foods.... Rob C.

>From: Mark B <mbinkley_at_earthling.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- ohio darters
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:35:01 -0400
>
>At 1:00 PM -0400 8/6/00, Frauley Elson wrote:
> >All the fish are safely in Montreal now, however, I have a last
> >question. The greensides have what appear to be tiny leeches on their
> >fins. How should I treat them?
>
>Pat Johnson just got some arrow darters with small leeches on them.
>Yesterday, he was picking them off one by one with tweezers and a knife
>blade. These things were hard and rubbery, and would more often break in
>half than come loose. It was nearly impossible to grip them with the
>tweezers. He went to the knife blade and thumb nail. The fish was looking
>very stressed after a while of this. I gave him some Trifon and warned
>that I would make no predictions about how it might effect the darters.
>Also that it is highly toxic and should be handled with extreme caution.
>It's a Kordon product that I got from ThatFishPlace, 888-842-8738. I have
>not used it for leeches yet, but have used it successfully for Ergasilus.
>
>
>Mark Binkley
>Columbus Ohio USA <))><
>mbinkley_at_earthling.net
>
>
>
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