salt water fish poop for a fertilizer?

Chiggachamp

Active Member
I have a salt water tank and a filter for it that keeps all the poop in a filter to leave the tank clean.

Can i use it as a fertilizer?? Think itll be good for the plants?
 

Metasynth

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I have a salt water tank and a filter for it that keeps all the poop in a filter to leave the tank clean.

Can i use it as a fertilizer?? Think itll be good for the plants?
How exactly would you use it/...Are you talking about skimmate from your skimmer, or a traditional sponge/filter floss filter? Either way, excessive salt is bad for the plants.
 

Chiggachamp

Active Member
Okay. I didnt think of that.
And idk what it is exactly xalled. But it looks like a bong and it just filters the water.

But i gotcha no slat water poop
 

Metasynth

Well-Known Member
Ig looks like a bong...lol...does it have a cup on top where dirty bubbles collect to poopy water? If so, then that is a skimmer. Too much salt in the water.
 

elduece

Active Member
No. Fresh salt water excrement wouldn't be good for the plants. Put it your bong instead see how that works.
 

Siddhartha2

Active Member
Saltwater tank NO
Beginner.legal,
Yes freshwater waste water is awesome for soil grows. It has a lot of the same beneficial bacteria. When i used to make super soil i used the water from my tank and it helps speed up the composting. It will also fix the ammonia if you are using seabird guano.
Sidd
 

WyoGrow

Active Member
Skimmate is loaded with salt. I have a 300 gallon reef aquarium that I run a skimmer and a algae turf scrubber on as filtration. I do put the harvested algae fro the scrubber in my compost after I've rinsed it. Nothing green goes to waste in my house. If you are talking about mulm from a canister/cartridge the salt content is still too high to add directly to soil even if it's rinsed out of the filter with fresh H20 (which is horrible on your beneficial bacteria population in the filter media).
 
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