Does Filtering Water Through Glass Wool Remove Parasites?

[GoldLenny]

In another forum on this board (Coldwater fish), I was reading this profile link http/www.nativefish.org/articles/Flying_Fish.php and came across the following snip. I was wondering if any of you have seen this or used this before.

Filtering the water through glass wool should rid it of most harmful parasites.

Maybe this belongs in the Fish Emergencies section too... but I'll leave that to the mods.

 

[Lateral Line]

Physical filtration will only remove objects larger then the mesh size of the filter medium. Certainly leeches, lice, beetle larvae etc., would be removed by such filtering, and these may be problems with wild water from that area. Anything really small, bacteria, virii, protozoans etc., would pass through such an arrangement.

 

[GoldLenny]

That was my thinking. Any type of mechanical filtration would "catch" larger parasites. I'm just wondering if "glass wool" has something that polypad, etc., does not have.

 

[SkiFletch]

That was my thinking. Any type of mechanical filtration would "catch" larger parasites. I'm just wondering if "glass wool" has something that polypad, etc., does not have.

Sadly, no . UV sterilization is prolly the cheapest method of killing the really little buggers.