Hi John,
In following up further, on the chlorine treatment for Ich that you mention
Wikipedia offers, I can only assume that perhaps this chlorine is
administered by hobbyist as a bottled chlorine bleach solution -- unless you might
explain it differently. In any case, and as I believe we all know, chlorine
-- even in small amounts -- can be toxic to fish to the point of most often
being fatal.
I doubt it should be left up to the hobbyist to be able to determine the
correct amount of the various percentages of bleach solutions now being
offered in the market, to not be toxic to their fishes. One small math error or
one small miscalculation in the volume of water being treated (after taking
into consideration the space being taken up by rocks, gravel and driftwood,
etc.) can easily turn into disaster.
While I used to regularly use the chlorine contained in my fresh-drawn,
water company-supplied chlorinated tap water (at the proper temperature) as a
funguscide in the prevention of egg fungusing, the chlorine level was well
advertised and consumers were made well aware of how much chlorine was being
added to their water supply. Even so, I needed to be careful in the Winter,
as colder water will hold a higher concentration of chlorine (and any other
gases). Tank water, in this case of Wikipedia's input on a chlorine
treatment, can also vary -- adding to the possible dangerous variations of chlorine
levels in this Ich-treated water.
Ray </HTML>
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