Crazy Fertilizer Idea?
I am considering using fish waste from my saltwater reef aquarium to fertilize my plants and looking for some feedback. I realize this is totally outside the box on fertilizing plants and most folks have never had the opportunity to try this, but want to gather as much opinion as possible.
I have already lightly treated a few plants (one or twice) without any visual negative effect, but nothing consistent to determine any real positive or negative results.
Attached are a few pictures of the waste that is pulled from my skimmer and collection cup. This stuff is very foul!
About 50% of the overall marine diet is seaweed and the other 50% is typically shrimp. Everything meaty that is fed to the animals is flash frozen from ocean collected methods.
I assume there are other elements (calcium, magnesium, iron, etc) within the waste along with salt, but am not quite sure how I would get an accurate measure of these.
Because of the water volume and size of the skimmer (filtration) I can pull a ton of this out on a very regular basis. I have yet to get anyone to take the $100.00 challenge by drinking a cup of the "nog"...LOL.
Let me know your thoughts!
Last edited by ryanalan : 05-22-2012 at 04:29 PM.
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