adding/dosing milk?

[reefwars]

seen this and wanted to post it here to see what you guys think would be the beneficial or harmfull effects of doing this or if it makes no sense at all lol


cheers

denny


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2204097&page=8

 

[bertoni]

I have no idea what anyone would want to dose soy milk into a tank.

 

[xtlosx]

I know we dose a lot of stuff in our systems, but boy... milk?

 

[hedgedrew]

I just posted my curiosity to this stuff also in sps forums. There's a guy from Taiwan who claims to dose soy milk and honey as his additives. Just wanted to know more myself or if anyone tried?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

FWIW, soy milk does have a lot of N and P in it.

It's hard to know if his tank looks nice becase of it, or in spite of it.

 

[hedgedrew]

Randy. You saying the milk acts as sps food and nutrients.?

 

[bertoni]

It adds a lot of nutrients. I'm not sure what it's feeding, although I'm sure bacteria are getting some or a lot of it.

 

[hedgedrew]

I mean infant formula also has tons of nutrients. ? Is there anything about the soy milk vs other nutrition?

 

[reefwars]

FWIW, soy milk does have a lot of N and P in it.

It's hard to know if his tank looks nice becase of it, or in spite of it.

i think it would be tough to tell if the milk and honey are actually his key to success or just something recently started and hasnt seen the negative effects yet.

i thought though it was an interesting read and things like this do lead to new ideas

if i could afford another test tank i would probably try it out lol but i enjoy being in a relationship so.......

with that said.......it was a " sweet " read wasnt it lol

 

[Dmorty217]

I mean infant formula also has tons of nutrients. ? Is there anything about the soy milk vs other nutrition?

If you want nutrients then breast milk is what your looking for... If you would like to try it I can send you some of the frozen packs of breast milk. My 9 month old daughter might not appreciate it!

 

[hedgedrew]

Well. 2 thoughts. Maybe I'll be test rat lab for the milk thing. It won't be in same sysytem but I can do constant water changes moving over water. The other thing was breast milk. Ya of course. Maybe I can't try that too lol. How different is breats milk from infant formula. Like nsw is to synthetic or way bigger?

 

[bertoni]

I mean infant formula also has tons of nutrients. ? Is there anything about the soy milk vs other nutrition?

As far as use in a reef tank, no one knows.

 

[Reefvet]

It's hard to know if his tank looks nice becase of it, or in spite of it.

Truer words were never said.

He adds 1 drop of milk daily. Soy milk is 70% water. The rest the skimmer probably gets.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

It adds a lot of nutrients. I'm not sure what it's feeding, although I'm sure bacteria are getting some or a lot of it.

I agree with that.

 

[hedgedrew]

I thought his soy milk dose was 1Ml for 100lt. And that honey was the drop.

 

[hypnoj]

I'm assuming the honey will act like any other sugar carbon source. My LFS puts sugar water in his tanks when his nitrates creep up.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Yes, it's the soy that is more unusual.

 

[tmz]

The honey is a carbon source ,primarily saccharides( sugare comopunds) but it also has a few other things for better ,worse or of insignificant consequence in small amounts such as organic acids inlcluding some small amounts ammino acids;from Wikepedia:

"Honey can contain up to 18 of the 20 amino acids. However, amino acid content is almost negligible in honey, accounting for only 0.05–0.1% of the composition. The main amino acid is proline. Amino acids are derived almost solely from the bodies of the bees."

 

[FranktheTankTx]

I have no idea what anyone would want to dose soy milk into a tank.

I thought the same dang thing when I first heard of vodka dosing. lol

 

[Reefpilot11]

Seems like people can find a reason to dose just about anything.