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What do you do with waste?
Over the past 2 days I have been siphoning out the solid 'crap' from under my raft beds. By crap I mean the semi-solid waste that has settled on the bottom --a combination of fish crap, uneaten food, algae and whatever other detritus that has accumulated.
Yesterday I only got to one side of one bank of growbeds..By that I mean one side of the 1/2 IBC's lining my pool. Today I went down the other side to get whatever waste remained.
When I first looked into the bucket i saw a 1/2 inch layer of water filled with bloodworms. Below that was a denser layer of waste. Of course I scooped up what I could of the bloodworms to feed my tank.. It was NOT much. Several netfulls might seem like a fair amount to others, but it got lost in my fishtank. At least I did not see the feeding activity I see when I feed dry pellets.
The semi-solid stuff I had in that bucket went into a couple of my worm beds. But I wonder if my worm beds are capable of consuming the volume of waste I seem to be generating.
What are you all doing with your waste?
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Permalink Reply by Jon Paul on
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I am removing solids waist once a month out of my sump tank. I use a gravel vacuum to suck what has settled at the bottom. I end up with very dirty water that i pump outside onto the ground. I noticed that they are 1000's of tiny snails in my sump tank. They help break down waist. Some of them get sucked up. most the snails hang out on the bio beads or the walls of the tank. The few on the bottom that get sucked up are not missed.
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