I have gone through the trouble of getting an ich free tank with copper and fallowing and the last thing I want to do is mess that up and introduce ich again. My question is, if I add copepods in a bottle to my tank am I risking ich being in that bottle too? I saw some articles about quarantining mandarins and people were saying pods in a bottle is an option, although expensive. How could that be a viable option though if that could be "ich in a bottle" too? Do we really trust there is no ich in there?
Ich and Copepods
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Brew12
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I would be very surprised if copepods were cultivated in a system that shared water with fish so I wouldn't expect it to be an issue.
Maybe @Reef Nutrition can verify if this is the case.
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Thanks for tagging me @Brew12.
At Reed Mariculture, we take biosecurity seriously. All of our live feeds organisms (Tigriopus californicus, Apocyclops panamensis, Parvocalanus crassirostris, Brachionus rotundiformis and Brachionus plicatilis) are grown in their own separate areas. We keep them separated so that we reduce the chance of one of them contaminating the other. This rings true for our algae lab as well. With this being said, we don't breed or import wild caught or aquacultured fish for sale. We also don't even allow our own employees to come to the farm if they have been to a public aquarium, an aquaculture facility, the beach or fishing - freshwater or saltwater.
Now, we do have an office tank with a pair of clownfish, one lawnmower blenny and a royal gramma with no new fish introduced in the last year. No one is allowed to touch the tank except me. Our office tank protocol is for me to do any maintenance on it at the end of the day and then I go home. I don't go into any of our production areas after dealing with our office tank. We take biosecurity so seriously that if an employee is caught repeatedly breaching our protocols they are sent home without pay. Contamination, in any form, can bring a farm to it's knees. The shrimp industry felt the wrath of a disease (white-spot) that wiped out all of their animals in a matter of days, in some cases. Everyone lost: the owners lost their company, all the employees were suddenly unemployed and all the restaurants and markets were without aquacultured shrimp.
This is a very good topic and I appreciate you thinking critically on this @JamesP.
-Chad
At Reed Mariculture, we take biosecurity seriously. All of our live feeds organisms (Tigriopus californicus, Apocyclops panamensis, Parvocalanus crassirostris, Brachionus rotundiformis and Brachionus plicatilis) are grown in their own separate areas. We keep them separated so that we reduce the chance of one of them contaminating the other. This rings true for our algae lab as well. With this being said, we don't breed or import wild caught or aquacultured fish for sale. We also don't even allow our own employees to come to the farm if they have been to a public aquarium, an aquaculture facility, the beach or fishing - freshwater or saltwater.
Now, we do have an office tank with a pair of clownfish, one lawnmower blenny and a royal gramma with no new fish introduced in the last year. No one is allowed to touch the tank except me. Our office tank protocol is for me to do any maintenance on it at the end of the day and then I go home. I don't go into any of our production areas after dealing with our office tank. We take biosecurity so seriously that if an employee is caught repeatedly breaching our protocols they are sent home without pay. Contamination, in any form, can bring a farm to it's knees. The shrimp industry felt the wrath of a disease (white-spot) that wiped out all of their animals in a matter of days, in some cases. Everyone lost: the owners lost their company, all the employees were suddenly unemployed and all the restaurants and markets were without aquacultured shrimp.
This is a very good topic and I appreciate you thinking critically on this @JamesP.
-Chad
