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Hi Frank, I like the chlorine method at the moment. With regards to the vinegar treatment. I was thinking if you went that route, that you could reuse the vinegar over and over, and just keep it in barrels. I wonder if you could run CO2 into the tanks to kill them. Or even put a heat lamp in there to get it totally dried out quick. You might consider making the inspection windows into simple hatches so they are really easy to open. Those inspectors I would think are going to want to "inspect" the interior of your tanks. As for me I'm just going to paint every thing yellow. Since zebra mussels won't attach them selves to any thing yellow. It's just to out of fashion for them. They would stand out in a bad way. ;} Regards, Szybowski From: ShellyDalg@aol.com Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:31:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Mussels To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Hi Jay. I was just reading that dilute chlorine works, Chuck said vinegar works if left sitting ( pickling ) in his cooling system. Copper Sulphate was mentioned too. These are fairly toxic and if a regular rinse procedure is required, where does the contaminated rinse water go ?
The state web site talks about hot water cleaning and drying with a 30 day quarantine period between boat relocations. ( that sucks )
I haven't found any definitive articles about whether it is JUST a freshwater problem yet.
I'm pretty sure I can modify the SS ballast tanks with the plexi window I mentioned without too much work. It adds another maintenance task for pre-dive/post-dive operations but that's not too bad. Outright banning of boats looks like this is where it's heading. I'll keep investigating and report back. Frank D.
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