Pressure cook the stuff at 15 lbs ofr 15-20 minutes. Presto - sterile
media. You can alsmost always find pressure cookers at yard sales for a
song and a dance and they are, in fact, simply an autoclave without the
fancy gizmos. Aside from the much maligned, but very cute, water bears
(tardig
> My wife would disagree, I nearly got tossed out on my ear
> over the stench! : )
Ooooh, do I hear ya; Dave and I are *at war* over the 'this house smells
like feet' thing (new tank's getting, ah, acclimated :)
Barbie >^,,^<
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LOL! I am always getting calls and e-mails from folks who find these
guys, mostly in furniture import shipments. I have a care sheet called
"The General Care and Maintenance of Small Stowaway Tropical Geckos."
It is designed to get them by until they get an id. Let me know if
anyone wants it!
> From: Neil Meister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:28:54 -0500
>
> Good to hear the skink is living!
Yeah!
> We get stowaways coming into Halifax on container ships
> from Cuba. Unless its quite warm they're often in hard shape.
Here in Toronto, brown anoles sometimes show up
Good to hear the skink is living!
We get stowaways coming into Halifax on container ships
from Cuba. Unless its quite warm they're often in hard shape.
Neil
Hello Lyle,
The roaches and snails went back into the peat, the skink is living in
my office for now.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 8:20:49 A
Hello Lyle,
The roaches and snails went back into the peat, the skink is living in
my office for now.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 8:20:49 AM, you wrote:
LP> what happened to the collection?
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what happened to the collection?
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 09:01 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:
Hello Neil,
Last week I was called over to the soil sciences dept. on campus
because someone had seen a "poisonous snake" in a large shipment of
peat moss from Florida. After digging through 40-50
Hello Neil,
Last week I was called over to the soil sciences dept. on campus
because someone had seen a "poisonous snake" in a large shipment of
peat moss from Florida. After digging through 40-50 gallons of
peat I found about 20 wood roaches, 5 snails, and 1 S.E. 5-lined
skink. No snake, but I wa
Hi,
I have gently boiled moss MANY times with no bad after effects - even
used it to incubate snake eggs in for 60 days at 88-90 degrees... No
problem here.
David Lawrence
At 05:39 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:
Hello Neil,
I would not boil the moss, because it would start to break down and s
I use some stuff called Avian Insect Liquidator. It can be use around Parrots.
( we have 12) Very safe and kills bugs dead. LOL
Burke
Julie Bergman wrote:
Want to tell us about Verisan? Active ingredients?
Uses?
Julie B.
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Hello,
I use Verisan. You can buy it from Pro
I think its called Verisan. The BeanFarm sell it, And ProExotic. Sorry, I dont know
the active ingredients, but I do know my Dentist uses it to wash out mouths.
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Hello,
I use Verisan. You can buy it from Pro Exotics. I wash the moss with cold water, then spray with the Verisan, let sit for a few minutes, then rinse out. I do this several times. The fina
Hello,
I use Verisan. You can buy it from Pro Exotics. I wash the moss with cold water,
then spray with the Verisan, let sit for a few minutes, then rinse out. I do this
several times. The final rinse is long, and then I let sit for a few days before I
put in a tank. I let it start to rec
Hello Neil,
I would not boil the moss, because it would start to break down and smell
really really bad.
My recommendation is to slowly dry the moss in a kiln at a low temp for a long
time. If you don't have a kiln, try your oven at 70 C for a while, but please
please keep your eye on the ove
My wife would disagree, I nearly got tossed out on my ear
over the stench! : )
Neil
"Moss, Its Whats for Dinner"
-Original Message-
From: "Neil A. Meister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jan 20, 2004 12:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gecko]debugging l
"Moss, Its Whats for Dinner"
-Original Message-
From: "Neil A. Meister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jan 20, 2004 12:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gecko]debugging local moss for vivaria
I've tried this, the smell of nuked moss was awful!
Some bugs
Title: Re: [gecko]debugging local moss for
vivaria
Interesting idea. The sphagnum is something of a sponge and
would
take a lot of rinsing/squeezing. The chemicals would have to be
ultra safe
as it would be hard to be sure if you got it all out.
Can anyone suggest a particular product?
Neil
nt: Jan 20, 2004 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gecko]debugging local moss for vivaria
Thanks for all of the moss suggestions, I may give some a try.
I sometimes use live pillow moss as is, what I'm mostly looking
for is ways to clean parasites and foreign insects out moss
Hi Neil
Although I've never tried this in my own gecko tanks, I have been doing it for years with aquatic plants for fish tanks. There are all sorts of "treatments" that you can find for aquatic plants that are designed to kill planaria and other sorts of inverts. Most of them are designed to be
You might try a short stint in a microwave oven. Kills bugs dead.
-Original Message-
From: "Neil A. Meister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jan 20, 2004 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gecko]debugging local moss for vivaria
Thanks for all of the moss suggestions,
Thanks for all of the moss suggestions, I may give some a try.
I sometimes use live pillow moss as is, what I'm mostly looking
for is ways to clean parasites and foreign insects out moss that
is used as disposable (compostable) substrate for arboreal gex.
I remove the moss as it gets soiled, it's g
Hi al,
I just submerge it in a tub outside for about 24 hours. I know that
won't get everything, but I mainly wanted to get rid of spiders -- I
have enough already!
Melody
David Lawrence wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you want the moss to remain living??? If not bringing the moss to
> a slow bo
Hi,
Do you want the moss to remain living??? If not bringing the moss to
a slow boil in a pot of water and letting it simmer will do the trick nicely.
David Lawrence
At 08:49 AM 1/20/2004, you wrote:
> Does anyone have a method of debugging fresh-collected sphagnum
> moss? It's very har
> Does anyone have a method of debugging fresh-collected sphagnum
> moss? It's very hard to buy good quality sphagnum here, but it is
> very common locally.
Dunno, except to rinse it well, but do be careful: a bite my red eft
received finally just healed, after a month. I brought home some wild
in contrast to similar moss you might find at home improvement stores which has long ago turned brown. I've a bale I'm using now.
Elizabeth
Subj: [gecko]debugging local moss for vivaria
Date: 1/19/04 9:15:02 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Meister)
Sender: [E
Does anyone have a method of debugging fresh-collected sphagnum
moss? It's very hard to buy good quality sphagnum here, but it is
very common locally.
Thanks,
Neil
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