Subject: NANFA-L-- A little mud never hurt anybody...
From: Todd Crail (farmertodd-in-buckeye-express.com)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 22:10:27 CDT
Okay... Here's the latest experiment. I will blame Laura
Burbage if it fails! (just kidding :)
Yesterday, I had one of these...
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/01Tank.jpg
To which I added 80lbs of this...
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/02Tank.jpg
Yummmm....
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/03Tank.jpg
Capped it with 2" of my good old stand by and siphoned
off a fair portion of the free silts adjunct from the sandbed...
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/04Tank.jpg
Was very encouraged to find that I had been keeping
and growing one of these for a year in a 5 1/2 gallon
(unknowingly and in the dark for the most part, so phyto
couldn't be the food... So what was? I think detritus and
bacteria play more in mussel health than we might think :)
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/05Tank.jpg
Last night what I started with, kinda looked more like this...
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/06Tank.jpg
Tonight it looked like this...
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/100gal/07Tank.jpg
It's amazing how fast the biofilms lock up the fine silts. I figure
I have a few more days of "slightly turbid" to "semi-tannic" and
we're rockin'. Two 175 watt halides were enough, I'm not
going to fuss with vho's.
I have glitter lines again :)
Time will tell how this thing goes, good or bad.
Todd
The Muddy Maumee Madness, Toledo, OH
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
http://www.farmertodd.com
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