So I've been experimenting with Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth and Expert Anemones

[Bristle_Worm]

I'm picking up a few expert nems tomorrow or this weekend and will be testing on Gram Negative Bacteria. I used it recently, but I don't think the nem had infection.

Also gonna use some in my reef. I've already treated the dogs for fleas and ate some.

If you do not want bugs in your garden, DE is for you too.

Do you like spiders and silverfish? Me either... 100% effective.

Fire-ants anybody? Test a big ant pile with it like I did. Again, 100% effective.

I'll let you guys know soon. Stay tuned.

http://www.diatomaceousearth.com/

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/LO0I9TwZ6Z0

 

[Pife]

If it is silica based it may cause Dino's.

 

[Bristle_Worm]

If it is silica based it may cause Dino's.

I'm curious to see what will happen. Interesting stuff to say the least.

It's like a natural miracle drug.

 

[PhaneSoul]

Does it fix loneliness?

 

[jonwright]

I've read about this - long time ago folks used this regularly. Seems to have fallen out of favor these days. But I'm interested in how it works out for you.

 

[CStrickland]

What are you to use it for in your tank?
I've used it for some things around the house, so I've picked up a little trivia that I think is mostly true...

I use it in the garden to kill soft bellied bugs like slugs and harde ones like potato bugs. Things that live in the ground around the bottoms of the plants and come up at night to eat the leaves or hatch from eggs in the ground and crawl up the plants, or things with harder shells too.
The DE has sharp edges so if you put a little circle around the plants stem, or coat the underside of a leaf, they get cut up when they slither across it and then they bleed out. I think with maggoty things it just coats them and sucks the water out of them.

It is good for filtering things too, you can pass pool water or maple syrup through it to catch stuff without taking everything out like a rodi does, and it doesn't clog like how a filter would. I think paulb uses a diatom filter to polish up his water a couple times a year, you just run it through some DE with a pump basically.

Don't go nuts with the dog, if you put it all over their bed they can breath it in and get their lungs cut up and irritated.

I think it's just a bunch of dead diatoms, so yeah prolly has a lot of silica that new diatoms could use.

 

[Bristle_Worm]

Does it fix loneliness?

It cures everything, even cancer! Ha Ha