Montgomery, if you don't learn to spell and PUNCTUATE, I will kick your ass! :giggle
I kid. But am curious about what you're actually applying. That pond gunk has a strong chance of being anaerobic and I would only use that in large scale, i.e. in-ground, outdoor, growing situations. Also, you might want to take some care if using it on edible plants because many parasites have a lifecycle that includes stages that require aquatic animals to complete, just seems more prudent to ensure those have no chance. The water itself is what I would use.
In fact, I've been having fish on my mind
yet again. If I get an aquarium it's gonna get bad again, I can't do it. Nothing more than goldfish, mosquito fish, maybe some guppies for me, otherwise, there's no telling what could go down!
Aquarium water?? No offense but when I read this post last night I thought it was a joke.
Shouldn't be. Quite the opposite. Time for me to help you get your learn on! :makeup
Why not use REAL water with the MG? When you get $20 or $30 bucks saved-up hit the growshop and get some proper base nutrients.
In the meantime, MG is far from optimal for your mj plants but it will grow relatively healthy plants. With normal water that is.
I personally would drop the MG in favor of the aquarium water.
Is using aquarium water common practice? Doesn't seem to make any sense. Maybe in organic soil I suppose but I'm a hydro guy and I wouldn't ever put anything like that in my reservoir. you don't know what's in there. Fish slime? uncomposted fish poop and piss? ALGAE? Fish food? stabilizers???Some of those? All of those? ...no thanks.
If aquarium water is a good thing, someone please tell me. I'll put goldfish in my RDWC systems.
PEACE.
You haven't ever heard of aquaponics?
There are some things to know about aquarium water and why it's good for Mary. First, it has to do with all that fish waste, which ends up in a final form of NO3 (that's nitrate for y'all, which is an oxidized form of nitrogen). That NO3 form
just happens to be the preferred form on N for almost all ANNUAL plants. What is Mary? Why, she's an annual plant!
The fish poop, urine, slime, etcetera, would be killing the fish if it weren't "composted", which isn't quite what's occurring in a healthy aquarium. What's happening is something called 'nitrification'. The fish make urine, NH3/4 (there are a couple of forms of ammonia possible), that is next oxidized, but is still toxic, into NO2 (nitrite). That is further oxidized into NO3. In order for NO3 to become atmospheric nitrogen there needs to be an area of extremely low water flow that allows anaerobic conditions, and this is where most fishkeepers stop (and should stop). That means that water changes are necessary and guess where that water should go.
Now, goldfish happen to be a rather "dirty" fish, in that they need rather high O2 saturation, make quite a lot of slime and, due to their high activity rates (assuming pond comets/feeders here and NOT fancies!) also make quite a lot of waste. This can be good or bad, depending on water volume, filtration and husbandry practices.
Believe it or not, aquarium water for plants, which are living things, is the optimal/ideal type of water to use because it's already had and got living things in it. Algae won't continue to live simply because it's been watered into someone's pots, though it could certainly live in a reservoir. I personally would be far more concerned with cyanobacteria, which is very commonly confused as an algae.
You want to know about aquariums, aquarium water and how they and it can be used? I'm your gal. :makeup
Want to know how to get off the Miracle Grow for free? Look up how to use urine as fertilizer. I don't know about you, but I pee every day.
