David quotes a poster from another list: > I regularly add 5ppm ionic colloidal silver to my fishtanks. It seems > to work wonders particularly when I had an outbreak of various fungus > in the tank. ... Within a week the whole tank was better and those that > had suffered severe fin damage from the fungus started growing their > fins back which to be honest isnt' something that I saw in my tank > before I started using the CS in the water!
My caution is this: Any established tank or pond has a biological filter in the gravel and in the filter medium which consists of colonies of beneficial bacteria whose job is to break down toxic wastes to less toxic substances. If you add CS to an established tank, you will *KILL* the biological filter, which not only deprives the tank of its benefits, but also dumps all the toxins and metabolic detritus of the dead bacteria into the water all at once. You may kill all your fish! If you start with a fresh tank and maintain CS levels so bacteria cannot get started, it should work better. But you *MUST* still make regular partial water changes in order to keep the nitrates and ammonia from fish waste from reaching toxic levels. Whether they're needed more or less often, I wouldn't know for sure. Since the bacterial filter breaks things down to safer, less toxic substances, I would imagine you'd quickly build up dangerous levels of waste unless they're very frequent, or the tank is very lightly loaded. Make sure you know what you're doing, is all. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
