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To: MetaThought
Is this the same stuff I use in my fish tank to cure ick?
5 posted on 07/09/2009 8:07:06 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: DYngbld

LOL! I have childhood memories of trying to cure ick in my Mollies and Swordtails with methylene blue.

Lost a lot of Mollies, IIRC ;-)


9 posted on 07/09/2009 8:09:24 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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>>> Is this the same stuff I use in my fish tank to cure ick?

It is a coloring dye used to stain micro-organisms on laboratory slides.

Very poisonous.


10 posted on 07/09/2009 8:10:11 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: DYngbld

Believe so.

I was working in a really crappy part of Africa, possibly got malaria (got sick, not sure what), and they used this to knock it out, along with some other drugs.

Turns your pee blue and the whites of your eyes blue.

I looked like an extra from “Dune.”


14 posted on 07/09/2009 8:14:00 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: DYngbld
Is this the same stuff I use in my fish tank to cure ick?

No. That is malachite green. Methylene blue milk was one of the media that I used in my microbiology labs as a means of detecting certain metabolites from bacteria.

55 posted on 07/09/2009 8:59:10 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: DYngbld

Hey, I knew it sounded familiar for some reason.


92 posted on 07/09/2009 8:07:18 PM PDT by NellieMae (Here...... common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
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