feeder scrimp vs. fish disease

[contender]

quick ? :

can fresh water scrimp get sick from common fish ailments?

like, can they be a carrier for parasites and such?

thanks in advance.

[Apocalypse]

Any live organism can carry disease into any aquarium. :grinyes:

[Goodoo]

I feed my Murray cod live shrimp caught in a local lake.

I don't think the shrimp themselves carry diseases that fish can catch, but diseases can certainly come in with the water the shrimp were caught in.

To be safe, I thoroughly rinse the shrimp in a net under a tap to wash all vestiges of lake water off them and then disinfect them for an hour in a ten gram per litre salt bath solution.

After this treatment they go into the tank squeakey clean and I have no problems.

cheers


Simon

[Veneer]

quick ? :

can fresh water scrimp get sick from common fish ailments?

like, can they be a carrier for parasites and such?

thanks in advance.

Overwhelmingly, no. However, pathogenic organisms can be introduced with the water with which they're packed.

[Veneer]

I feed my Murray cod live shrimp caught in a local lake.

I don't think the shrimp themselves carry diseases that fish can catch, but diseases can certainly come in with the water the shrimp were caught in.

To be safe, I thoroughly rinse the shrimp in a net under a tap to wash all vestiges of lake water off them and then disinfect them for an hour in a ten gram per litre salt bath solution.

After this treatment they go into the tank squeakey clean and I have no problems.

cheers


Simon

Cherabin?

[contender]

cool. thanks for your info guys.

cherabin? whats that a parasite?

[Veneer]

cherabin? whats that a parasite?

Australian colloquial term for river prawn (Macrobrachium).