I have a mantis tank and the Peacock mantis Shrimp eats a clam a day. These clams are the type used for clam soup etc.
Now with this sort of consumption i have a load of empty shells. So I wanted to investigate if I could crush and put them into my CaRx and basically recycle.
The gurus made me awrae of two things, firstly these shells may give off Phosphate (PO4) and secondly these shells are not made of the same Calcium compound as Aragonite and breakdown slower in a reactor. Basically meaning I cannot run the reactor only on these shells, but a mixture may work.
So firstly I need to check if these shells contact PO4 as this could be a real disaster, having my CaRx continuiously pumping Po4 into my system.
And in saying that, I think I made a fatal flaw, by not making sure the shell had no "leftovers" and may have infleunce the readings.
Anyway here goes
Now with this sort of consumption i have a load of empty shells. So I wanted to investigate if I could crush and put them into my CaRx and basically recycle.
The gurus made me awrae of two things, firstly these shells may give off Phosphate (PO4) and secondly these shells are not made of the same Calcium compound as Aragonite and breakdown slower in a reactor. Basically meaning I cannot run the reactor only on these shells, but a mixture may work.
So firstly I need to check if these shells contact PO4 as this could be a real disaster, having my CaRx continuiously pumping Po4 into my system.
And in saying that, I think I made a fatal flaw, by not making sure the shell had no "leftovers" and may have infleunce the readings.
Anyway here goes