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What treatment can I apply to disinfect my dive equipment and inside my wing (without harming the gear, of course!) to prevent contamination of other bodies of water after having been diving for this past week in a freshwater lake that is rife with zebra mussels? I sure don’t want to be spreading those things!!
I read that DAN recommends using a 1% bleach solution for disinfecting dive equipment, but that seems more geared towards bacteria & fungi.
- Will this also work on zebra mussel larvae (veligers)?
- Is there another effective solution that I can apply to prevent zebra mussel larvae from infecting the next body of fresh water that I will dive in?
- Are there other fresh water invasive species I should also be careful about in the same way?
Some background from Wikipedia:
“… An adult female zebra mussel can produce 30,000 to 40,000 eggs in each reproductive cycle, and over 1 million each year. Free-swimming microscopic larvae, called veligers, drift in the water for several weeks and then settle onto any hard surface they can find. Zebra mussels also can tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, and adults can even survive out of water for about 7 days. …”
Thanks!
I read that DAN recommends using a 1% bleach solution for disinfecting dive equipment, but that seems more geared towards bacteria & fungi.
- Will this also work on zebra mussel larvae (veligers)?
- Is there another effective solution that I can apply to prevent zebra mussel larvae from infecting the next body of fresh water that I will dive in?
- Are there other fresh water invasive species I should also be careful about in the same way?
Some background from Wikipedia:
“… An adult female zebra mussel can produce 30,000 to 40,000 eggs in each reproductive cycle, and over 1 million each year. Free-swimming microscopic larvae, called veligers, drift in the water for several weeks and then settle onto any hard surface they can find. Zebra mussels also can tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, and adults can even survive out of water for about 7 days. …”
Thanks!
