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Thread: Skimate as a Plant Fertilizer?

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11-27-2007, 01:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
crappyballer Peppermint Shrimp Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 630, IL Age: 23 Posts: 419 Karma: 334	Skimate as a Plant Fertilizer? so I was reading the editorial on advanced aquarist and I came across a part that says : "With that back on line I turned to my two large skimmers, where even though the skimmate is collected in external canisters, the inner walls of both skimmers had about 3/8 of an inch of muck clinging to them. Using a plastic spatula I collected about a gallon of this muck/detritus, which I then saved for use as fertilizer for my terrestrial plants" I thought about doing that a while back, but I thought that there would be to much salt content to use on terrestrial plants. any thoughts? _________ 55 Gallon Reef- 1x175w 14,000k Metal halide,2x 65 watt super actinic CF, ASM G1-X Skimmer,Neptune Aqua Jr. controller. d.o.b. 12/18/06

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