Given the possibility of bag breakage en route, and the letter carriers having no ability to consent to the even slight possibility of being exposed to the disease, I feel like shipping these fish anywhere would be tremendously irresponsible.
FREE TB exposed fish - NC - shipping
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My experience with fish TB is a bit different than your description. But my experience is just that, experience. Experience trumps belief every time.
The bag's going to break and then the damp cardboard is going to make the postman have a skin infection? I just find it hard to believe.
Reefkeepers keep all sorts of stinging and poisonous things in their tank. They wear gloves and take precautions. The same could be done with an infected tank. How contagious do we know it to be anyway? If you use a net in the infected tank and then leave it to air dry and then use it 4 days later is the bacteria still going to be on it? I kind of don't think it will be (but I don't know).
If someone wanted to take these fish, that would be up to them...full disclosure here. There are people who adopt cats with feline leukemia. There could be people who adopt fish with fish TB, you never know?
So I personally commend the effort...even though I think it is unlikely they will find homes, unfortunately. It's hard enough to rehome a common pleco, etc.
Reefkeepers keep all sorts of stinging and poisonous things in their tank. They wear gloves and take precautions. The same could be done with an infected tank. How contagious do we know it to be anyway? If you use a net in the infected tank and then leave it to air dry and then use it 4 days later is the bacteria still going to be on it? I kind of don't think it will be (but I don't know).
If someone wanted to take these fish, that would be up to them...full disclosure here. There are people who adopt cats with feline leukemia. There could be people who adopt fish with fish TB, you never know?
So I personally commend the effort...even though I think it is unlikely they will find homes, unfortunately. It's hard enough to rehome a common pleco, etc.
Shipping a known possible contagious desease through the mail? You are much braver than I I'll give you that
Ehhh... not a good idea. I'd use net disinfectant, then let it dry, and never use that net for any other tank.
So, obviously posting this thread wasn't a great idea. Even aside from the potential problems people have pointed out, not everyone is used to practicing sterile technique with their tanks well enough for it to work out.
I'm going to pm a mod to just close this.
Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
A must read ..........http://cmr.highwire.org/cgi/reprint/9/2/177.pdf
Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
A must read ..........http://cmr.highwire.org/cgi/reprint/9/2/177.pdf
It's not that I don't know how to practice sterilization, I am just posing a hypothetical question - can the bacterial spores or whatever resist being dried? I just think it would be good to find this out, because no matter how careful you are there are going to be splashes and spills.
It does look incredibly informative, however at 39 pages with narrow margins, it is a DENSE read that's for sure. Too bad PDFs aren't searchable...
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