HALAMID®

To suit your need, Halamid® is available in various sizes: from 2kg bucket to 25kg paper bag or plastic drum. Contact our team to find out more about the packing possibilities.

HALAMID® should be stored in a cool and dry place protected from direct sunlight. Refer to the SDS.

General rule is that disinfectants should not be blended. Their different modes of action may mean dangerous gases may evolve and moreover the activity of the ingredients may react away.

You can buy dipslides online at for example at Dimanco or Oxoid.

A simple test on presence of micro organisms can be done before and after disinfection. Axcentive suggest the use of dipslides for this. The main advantage is that you measure exclusively microbiological activity. By selecting the right dips, you can measure even specific bacteria (e.g. Salmonella, E-coli). The disadvantages of this system are that it takes 24 hours for the result and that you need an incubator. The latter is not a big investment but makes that you do not have a totally handheld system. Other systems, but less suitable are based on measuring ATP (general hygiene) or DNA (expensive).

Water hardness is built up from two main groups: calcium hardness + magnesium hardness.

The Halamid efficacy gradually increases from lowering the pH from 10 to 7. Below PH 7 a Halamid solution becomes insoluble and ineffective.

Yes you should be able to keep a solution of Halamid (1-10%) for weeks under the condition it is kept away from direct sunlight. Stability is also dependent on pH, pH should remain above 7 to guarantee stability. A 1% solution of Halamid in demineralised water normally has a pH of 9.

pH measured in a solution at 22 °C :

Halamid is able to disinfect any surface and hence also these cooling pads. With the fans on hold, these pads can be sprayed with a 1% Halamid solution. Let it dry to the air and restart the fans. If visually dirty, then spray with a detergent beforehand. If dirt still comes off after spraying the Halamid solution (e.g. dead algae) then spray with water afterwards. The pads should be perfectly clean after this treatment.

HALAMID® is registered under BPR, Group 1, product types (PT) 2, 3, 4 and 5. PT 3 concerns all veterinary hygiene including poultry barns and all equipment used.

Halamid can be used with any fish type, including Koi. The dosages may vary per fish types as sensitivity for Halamid may be different. A small test is always advised, before general use on larger numbers of fish. Also dosages need to be adapted to the pH of the water. For Koi, we refer to (Jill Spangenberg article).

Yes, Halamid can be used in seawater, brackish water and fresh water under the same conditions.

Aldehyde products are posing health risks to the operators using them for disinfection by spraying, fogging, etc. Halamid replaces formaldehydes or glutaraldehydes without any problem. Follow the standard guidelines in our documentation to obtain excellent disinfection results. After proper cleaning one disinfection step with Halamid suffice. Should you prefer to keep an additional fogging step in place, then Halamid in combination with an aerosol can be applied here as well.

Yes Halamid is the perfect disinfectant for equipment at 1-2% solution.

On EMS or also mentioned acute hepatopancreatic degenerative necrosis syndrome (AHDNS) the cause has been found, just recently. In fact a bacteriophage (= virus that only infect bacteria) infects the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus and in the body of the shrimp the Vibrio starts to produce toxins (toxic excretions) which causes the animal to die. This cause would indicate that shrimp can be protected, either by destroying the bacteriophage or by killing the host bacterium (the Vibrio). Probably it is more practical to keep Vibrio under control as bacteriophages are smaller and more difficult to control to a level where they do no longer harm and they are generally present in all kinds of waters (oceans/lakes, etc). Vibrio parahaemolyticus is efficiently killed by Halamid®.

Halamid is a disinfectant with the sole purpose to kill micro organisms. Probiotics do not kill micro organisms but try to create an overall better water quality. In this sense probiotics and Halamid are complementary.

There is not much practical experience on this. A Halamid residue may not have much effect on probiotics. This means Probiotics can safely be added a few days after Halamid was added. However we advise at this stage against dosing Halamid to a pond where probiotics have been added.

In a shrimp pond, two days after Halamid was added to the pond, about 50 % of the dosed Halamid is still available.

Yes, for example ciliates and Ichthyobodo necator are effectively killed.

For fish, extensive trials in the USA on salmonids have shown that Halamid, or its break down residue, para toluene sulfonamide do not accumulate in fish tissues and leave the body completely.

To determine the residual Halamid® concentration in water one can do Halamid ion testing in which you measure the chlorine content: Chlorine can be easily measured using strips, like you can find here.This gives you a rough indication if chlorine is still present at ppm level. You could also use a titration test like:

• https://www.merckmillipore.com/INTL/en/product/Chlorine-Test,MDA_CHEM-114801

This gives you an exact figure. There are also electronic devices available in the market:

http://www.testequipmentdepot.com/extech/pdf/cl200.pdf which presents a 1 step process.

 for a simple tester from Hanna.

• • http://www.testequipmentdepot.com/extech/pdf/cl200.pdf which presents a 1 step process.