I just leave them outside in the sun, wind and rain for a few weeks. When
mosquitos or cyclops start breeding in them, I figure that they must be OK!!
Bill Allen
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: dead sticklebacks (was RE: NANFA-- NANFA digest)
> > Also, I have seen sticklebacks put into a bucket that had some bleach
> > residue in it. They all died. Thanks for the lesson Jay ;)
> >
> > Jeff Kruse
>
> Geez, Jeff, I bet I can talk to your wife and get some good stories on
you,
> too :-)
> Okay, I confess I did it. On the Tulalip Creek loach hunt a couple
summers
> back, Jeff and Richard Bell wanted to keep some sticklebacks. Trying to
be
> a good trip coordinator, I had brought a few buckets, and we found out the
> hard way I had used one of them to disinfect some salmon tagging equipment
> the week before. The fish in that bucket all died and the ones in the
other
> buckets lived. That was too bad, because there's no reason to subject any
> animal to a prolonged painful death, even a fish. I don't put fish in
> formalin before anesthetizing them first.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
>
>
>
>
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