Thank You CTARS!

[Steven Pro]

I just wanted to let you know I had a great time at CMAC! I enjoyed the other speakers and seeing the vendors. The Mohegan Sun facility is beautiful and always fun to people watch at during down time.

Rich, thank you for being such a champ and killing yourself driving all over creation to make sure everyone and everything got to where it needed to be. I hope you can finally get some rest now.

Eric, James, and Jen, thank you for being such lovely dinner hosts. I nejoyed your company. And, if anyone ever has the chance, I highly recommend eating at Olio. Fabulous food at a very reasonable price.

Mario, thank you for lunch, even though I got soaked.

Jeff, always nice seeing you and hanging out.

For all the curveballs that were thrown at you, you guys really pulled together and did a fantastic job!

And finally, I hope you all weather Frankenstorm Sandy without any problems.

 

[Rwinfrey]

It was nice seeing you to.See you at the next CMAC

 

[dMarina]

Thank you, Steve for your presentation. What is the name of the book you showed at the end? I've been searching amazon and can't find it.

 

[Steven Pro]

Thank you, Steve for your presentation. What is the name of the book you showed at the end? I've been searching amazon and can't find it.

I am glad you enjoyed the presentation.

The book I mentioned is available here https://www.mrsaltwatertank.com/quarantine/

 

[FroMan]

Steven - You are welcome for lunch. I'm pretty sure that the waitress put a hex on your glass of coke. Good luck with school!


Mario

 

[huili001]

Your article about Marine Velvet

Your article about Marine Velvet

Hi, Steven,

Don't know how to get hold of you. Hope you can see this post.

I found your articles very helpful, and more scientific than most of the articles around.

I have a question about Marine velvet. It's just a thought. Since you mentioned that formalin has a strange way of effectiveness, Do you thing treating the fish with formalin for a couple days and move the fish to a brand new clean tank will cure the disease? Since formalin will make the trophonts to fall off, and the dinospores will be killed, and the formation of dinospores will be inhibited, so the fish itself should be clean of disease after formalin treatment. Since I don't know how long does it take the formalin to kill the dinospores, by keeping the fish in formalin for two days should do the trick, right? I can then transfer it to a new tank. There would be no free-swimming guys, and the drop-off trophonts should be at the bottom of the tank, and if not, you can rainse it off before you put your fish in the new tank. And for security, one can also keep formalin in the new tank for a couple more days. Does this sound like a workable plan?

Thanks.

 

[Steven Pro]

Theoretically, tank transfer (a proven treatment for marine ich where a sick fish is moved every 3 days for 4 moves total) without formalin would work. But, moving the fish is hard on them with that much handling making them prone to infection. Then there is the issue of maintain biological filtration in all of those new aquariums and not poisoning your fish with ammonia. It is possible to do, but has its downsides. That said, my preference would be copper in a proper quarantine tank.

 

[huili001]

Thanks. I will try copper then.