Nick Zarlinga
Aquarium Biologist
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
3900 Wildlife Way
Cleveland, Oh 44109
216-661-6500 ex 4485
"Fish worship... is it wrong??" (Ray Troll)
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 4:52 PM, Jay DeLong [SMTP:thirdwind_at_att.net]
wrote:
> The biggest rap on clove oil has been its messiness.
>
> A couple years back I made photocopies of a number of articles on fish
> anesthetics-- MS-222, clove oil, CO2, etc. Does anyone want these? I'll
> ask you to cover my costs of copying and postage.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanfa_at_aquaria.net On Behalf
> > Of Bob Culler
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:11 PM
> > To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> > Subject: NANFA-- Clove Oil Anesthetic
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > About a month ago, there was a thread on using clove oil as a fish
> > anesthetic. Well, I tried it today and it worked wonderfully. I
> > was able to
> > anesthetize a northern hogsucker and a silver redhorse with the stuff.
> >
> > From the sites Jan provided, I decided to try 25 ppm as the dose.
Mixed
> > 3.7 ml clove oil with 38.8 ml water for a stock solution. One ml of the
> > stock solution per gallon of tank water gives 25 ppm clove oil in
> > the tank.
> >
> > Within 5 minutes of adding the correct dose, both fish were lying
> > on their
> > sides. I removed the hogsucker after 5 minutes and allowed it
> > recover in a
> > clean tank, took about 5 minutes. The redhorse stayed in for 8
> > minutes and
> > took about 8-10 minutes to recover.
> >
> > This will probably come in handy for things like removing parasites,
etc.
> > from aquarium fish.
> >
> > Thanks, Jan, for posting the references!
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