Home made food slurry

[skozzy]

I would like some opinions to this:

Recently my experiment for growing phytoplankton went all arse up, instead I
grew a massive amount of seaweed and green alge, I can back from a few days
away interstate and the seaweed mess was over growing. So i removed most of
it and also scraped the sides of the esky where it all was and put
everything into a blender, I added a cup of tank water and blended the whole
lot for 30mins untill it was all a consistant green thick blob. I added 5
prawns and 2 pilchards and a pinch of fish flakes. Then packaged it and now
stored it in the fridge.

The containers were rinsed off in the tank and everything in there seems to
be on cloud 9 eating it. nearly every polip was extended on most corals, the
tang and foxface were super excited eating everything they could get, the
hermit crabs were going nuts grabbing at the water, the goby's were darting
all over the place eating.

Well apart from a slight seaweed smell and several hours later the tank it
alive like never before. Colour are slightly brighter, fish seem to be more
active.

Now, is the green seaweed slurry blob I made good tucker for the tank ?, If
so how often do you think i should add it to the tank ?.

Currently the amount that went in was enough to cloud up the water for maybe
5-10 mins.

[Marc Levenson]

That sounds very interesting. I can't really add more to this, because I've
never done it.

Marc


skozzy wrote:

> I would like some opinions to this:
>
> Recently my experiment for growing phytoplankton went all arse up, instead I
> grew a massive amount of seaweed and green alge, I can back from a few days
> away interstate and the seaweed mess was over growing. So i removed most of
> it and also scraped the sides of the esky where it all was and put
> everything into a blender, I added a cup of tank water and blended the whole
> lot for 30mins untill it was all a consistant green thick blob. I added 5
> prawns and 2 pilchards and a pinch of fish flakes. Then packaged it and now
> stored it in the fridge.
>
> The containers were rinsed off in the tank and everything in there seems to
> be on cloud 9 eating it. nearly every polip was extended on most corals, the
> tang and foxface were super excited eating everything they could get, the
> hermit crabs were going nuts grabbing at the water, the goby's were darting
> all over the place eating.
>
> Well apart from a slight seaweed smell and several hours later the tank it
> alive like never before. Colour are slightly brighter, fish seem to be more
> active.
>
> Now, is the green seaweed slurry blob I made good tucker for the tank ?, If
> so how often do you think i should add it to the tank ?.
>
> Currently the amount that went in was enough to cloud up the water for maybe
> 5-10 mins.

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[skozzy]

Ummm, well what I will do later is setup my video camera infront of the
tank, then put some slurry in. I will then post that to a webpage and people
can download it and see for themselves. Maybe that might help.

Maybe it a few hours I should have the time.


"Marc Levenson" > wrote in message
...
> That sounds very interesting. I can't really add more to this, because
I've
> never done it.
>
> Marc
>
>
> skozzy wrote:
>
> > I would like some opinions to this:
> >
> > Recently my experiment for growing phytoplankton went all arse up,
instead I
> > grew a massive amount of seaweed and green alge, I can back from a few
days
> > away interstate and the seaweed mess was over growing. So i removed most
of
> > it and also scraped the sides of the esky where it all was and put
> > everything into a blender, I added a cup of tank water and blended the
whole
> > lot for 30mins untill it was all a consistant green thick blob. I added
5
> > prawns and 2 pilchards and a pinch of fish flakes. Then packaged it and
now
> > stored it in the fridge.
> >
> > The containers were rinsed off in the tank and everything in there seems
to
> > be on cloud 9 eating it. nearly every polip was extended on most corals,
the
> > tang and foxface were super excited eating everything they could get,
the
> > hermit crabs were going nuts grabbing at the water, the goby's were
darting
> > all over the place eating.
> >
> > Well apart from a slight seaweed smell and several hours later the tank
it
> > alive like never before. Colour are slightly brighter, fish seem to be
more
> > active.
> >
> > Now, is the green seaweed slurry blob I made good tucker for the tank ?,
If
> > so how often do you think i should add it to the tank ?.
> >
> > Currently the amount that went in was enough to cloud up the water for
maybe
> > 5-10 mins.
>
> --
> Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html
> Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com
> Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com
>
>

[skozzy]

I made a video of the feeding but it doesn't come out too good. But I did
make 36 small 5-10 second videos (38mb of divx video) of the various life in
the tank.. Any idea where I can post it to ?

My ISP only allows me to post 10mb max.

> That sounds very interesting. I can't really add more to this, because
I've
> never done it.

[CapFusion]

"skozzy" > wrote in message
. ..
> I made a video of the feeding but it doesn't come out too good. But I did
> make 36 small 5-10 second videos (38mb of divx video) of the various life
in
> the tank.. Any idea where I can post it to ?
>
> My ISP only allows me to post 10mb max.

You can try asking Marc if you can store those Divx onto his server (PC) or
anyone have the storage.

CapFusion,...

[skozzy]

I posted a few to the alt.binaries.aquaria group for now.

Marc. Do you have a server running 24/7 do you ?

"CapFusion" <CapFusion...@hotmail..,com> wrote in message
...
> "skozzy" > wrote in message
> . ..
> > I made a video of the feeding but it doesn't come out too good. But I
did
> > make 36 small 5-10 second videos (38mb of divx video) of the various
life
> in
> > the tank.. Any idea where I can post it to ?
> >
> > My ISP only allows me to post 10mb max.
>
> You can try asking Marc if you can store those Divx onto his server (PC)
or
> anyone have the storage.
>
> CapFusion,...
>
>

[Marc Levenson]

No, I sure don't. I buy a hosting location yearly, that allows me 800megs of
space and 30gigs of bandwidth a month. ipowerweb.com

Marc


skozzy wrote:

> I posted a few to the alt.binaries.aquaria group for now.
>
> Marc. Do you have a server running 24/7 do you ?
>
>

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[CapFusion]

Skozzy, email me. Remove those extra dot.

CapFusion,...


"Marc Levenson" > wrote in message
...
> No, I sure don't. I buy a hosting location yearly, that allows me 800megs
of
> space and 30gigs of bandwidth a month. ipowerweb.com
>
> Marc
>
>
> skozzy wrote:
>
> > I posted a few to the alt.binaries.aquaria group for now.
> >
> > Marc. Do you have a server running 24/7 do you ?
> >
> >
>
> --
> Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html
> Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com
> Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com
>
>

[CapFusion]

"Marc Levenson" > wrote in message
...
> No, I sure don't. I buy a hosting location yearly, that allows me 800megs
of
> space and 30gigs of bandwidth a month. ipowerweb.com
>
> Marc
>
How much they charge you? Just being curious.

CapFusion,...

[Marc Levenson]

$96 for a year.

Marc


CapFusion wrote:

> "Marc Levenson" > wrote in message
> ...
> > No, I sure don't. I buy a hosting location yearly, that allows me 800megs
> of
> > space and 30gigs of bandwidth a month. ipowerweb.com
> >
> > Marc
> >
> How much they charge you? Just being curious.
>
> CapFusion,...

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[CapFusion]

Taking this thread to your BBS, Marc, since this will be OT.

CapFusion,...

"Marc Levenson" > wrote in message
...
> $96 for a year.
>
> Marc
>
>
> CapFusion wrote:
>
> > "Marc Levenson" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > No, I sure don't. I buy a hosting location yearly, that allows me
800megs
> > of
> > > space and 30gigs of bandwidth a month. ipowerweb.com
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > How much they charge you? Just being curious.
> >
> > CapFusion,...
>
> --
> Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html
> Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com
> Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com
>
>

[skozzy]

Here is a follow up to my food slurry from seaweed, it's now 6 or 7 days
since I made it, it's still holding it's colour just fine, but the smell is
increasing, the fish still go made over it tho. It makes me wonder now if I
should de-hydrate it and then turn it into a powder in the blender. Drying
it out is going to be fun, I have never had to dry out food before.