[TheForge] quench malaria considerations

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

The traditional method for collecting octopus in the tide pools ( I was 
selling them for biological specimens pickled in formaldehyde, the 
Italian guys were collecting them to eat)...was to toss a small handful 
of copper sulfate near the suspected octopus lair ...in a minute or so 
they'd flee in panic and were easy to grab...worked real well.
I came back to the same tide pool a few weeks later one time, and 
everything was sterile...quite dead.
I switched over to using brine right then....pf

GRAF wrote:
> Probably not lethal dose of copper for the larva probably falls well 
> below that allowed in well water.
> I used to treat parasite infections in fish tanks by tossing some 
> pennies in the water.
> 
> Mike Graf
> 
> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> Isn't that hard on the shop dog who would probably drink out of it?..pf
>>
>> Bruce Freeman wrote:
>>> Of course, if you want to speed it up a bit, or lack copper to use,
>>> get some copper sulfate from the hardware store and dose your slack
>>> tub with that.  Shiny iron may emerge with a copper tinge, though.
>>> Bruce
>>> NJ
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
>>> <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>>>> My  little copper quench tank experiment is entering it's 4th year..
>>>> The beginning was using a beat up copper canning kettle i patched.
>>>> Put in a raised stainless screen bottom..and, no bugs! Tried copper 
>>>> scrap
>>>> with the fire buckets in the work yard..same result.
>>>> Report ;
>>>> Putting copper sheet scraps in the quench tank bottom ,controls 
>>>> mosquitoes
>>>> pretty well.....here anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Gallagher wrote:
>>>>> Another obscure request…I am looking for old wife's tales, lore and 
>>>>> myths
>>>>> about blacksmiths and smithing related things.  For example: 
>>>>> soaking in
>>>>> slack tub water cures poison ivy.  Anyone know of other home 
>>>>> remedies and
>>>>> superstitions that blacksmith related or good sources for such?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> KG
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