[Zbrafish] Suggestions for fish room entry-ways

[Judy Bennett]

Hi Marcus,

We had an issue with "pond organisms" turning up in one of our 3 fish 
rooms.  To prevent further contamination, or spreading, we 
implemented foot baths using a broad spectrum disinfectant (we have a 
lot of foot traffic in our halls).  They're set just inside each 
doorway for folks to use on their way in and out.  There is minimal 
maintenance involved and I believe it's got to be part of our 
bio-security protocol.  I'm surprised that an investigator would 
rather opt for shoe covers?  I'm interested to see what inventive 
solutions are out there, but if nothing practical comes up, I would 
have a discussion with the investigator as to why foot baths need to 
be part of the facility's bio-security.

Good luck,
Judy



  At 02:31 PM 4/15/08, marcuswrath wrote:
>I'm throwing this out to the Internet to see if anyone has any unusual
>solutions to this problem. I'm trying to come up with an alternative
>to the traditional foot baths and tacky-mats to be used at the entry
>points to a zebrafish room. I'm stuck with the following restrictions:
>
>1) Foot baths are out of the question due to "investigator dislike"
>2) The doors to the fish room open into the room and will have door
>sweeps flush with the floor (making it impossible to set something on
>the floor just inside the doors)
>3) The exterior hallway is a shared hallway that will have lots of non-
>aquatics personnel.
>
>If anyone has any ideas other than shoe covers for reducing the
>likelihood of unwanted material being carried in on people's shoes,
>I'd love to hear them!
>
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