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- From: switzer@beta.uleth.ca (Dean Switzer)
- Subject: Re: Snails keep dying
- Message-ID: <switzer.724934569@honte>
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- Organization: University of Lethbridge
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 10:42:49 GMT
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- frazier@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Gregory Frazier) writes:
-
- >Dean Switzer (switzer@zeta.uleth.ca) wrote:
- >: I lost my third snail just the other day and I don't know why...
- >: The only disease the tank has had was a quick bout of ich that I blew
- >: away with nox-ich. Although not before my male blue sword and red
- >: dwarf guoramis.
-
- >Ich medications kill invertebrates (which is why it kills ich).
- >Your snails are invertebrates. I am amazed that they did not
- >die immediately. If nox-ich uses a copper compound, the Cu will
- >bind with the gravel in your tank - each time some Cu is removed
- >via a water change, the Cu bound with your gravel will re-dissolve
- >into your water - this is my guess as to why your snails continue
- >to die.
-
- So will the copper cause any harm to the other life? Should I replace
- the gravel or wait for 16 water changes before introducing another
- invert.?
-
- Thanx for replying!!
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