Re: NANFA-- Collecting on the St. John's River Plain

Wally Billingham (wally_at_wallybillingham.com)
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:41:54 -0400

I second the kudos to Stress Coat, I started using it after you trip up here
John, and its been night and day. I am going to mail order it by the gallon
from now on!

Wally
----- Original Message -----
From: John Bongiovanni <bongi_at_cox-internet.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Collecting on the St. John's River Plain

> FWIW I believe that the addition of stress coat is more important than
> providing aeration for trips shorter than
> 5 or six hours. Other factors come into play as well, temperature
> surface area etc. But, the fish that I bring home that were exposed to
> stress coat are more likely to survive the first week than those
> without. Haven't tried Novaqua.
>
> John
>
> geoff and julie kimber wrote:
>
> >re: fish dying in transit-
> >
> >I have had good results using stress coat and transporting the fish in
> >kordon breathable bags.
> >
> >I recently transported some caribbean gambusia or limia (I haven't id'd
them
> >yet) along with a bunch of tropicals from my uncle's house in NY back to
> >lexington. The tropicals were in a bag for about 24 hours and the
gambusia
> >were in a bag for about 72 hours. They were packed pretty heavily and I
> >didn't leave any air in the bags to reduce sloshing.
> >
> >I have used this technique for over a year with pretty good results,
except
> >when I foolishly tried to transport silversides from the okeefenokee this
> >spring.
> >
> >Geoff Kimber
> >Lexington,KY
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