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- From: sdebol@htlv.med.umn.edu (Steven Debol (Nelson))
- Subject: Re: [F] How to get rid of snails?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.182537.27383@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.134902.27650@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec19.055922.27580@news2.cis.umn.edu> sdebol@tsp.med.umn.edu (Steven Debol (Nelson)) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>Why, why its unnatural. I suggest if you don't want to stress the fish
- >>>>stay away from chlorox.
- >>>
- >>Just to be obnoxious here folks... Bleach (or hypochlorous acid)
- >>is hardly "unnatural"--whatever that means. A number of different
- >>organisms (including humans...) have cells which generate HOCl
- >>as an antimicrobial agent--is that "natural" enough for you?
- >
- >NO.
- >
- >OK everybody use bleach. I apologize. I'm ludicrous.
- >If I kept an open mind in 25 years of keeping fish I wouldn't have any
- >live ones. I've learned something.
- >
- I wasn't commenting on the use of bleach in a fishtank--one
- way or the other. I was simply responding to the statement
- of bleach being "unnatural".
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