Wacky Idea

[miggi]

I was just driving along today and a thought popped into my head yeah yeah I know painful!! anyway.....
If yeast gives off co2 (which can be used for growing your plants in your aquarium) and I use activated yeast on ready brek to feed the microworms.... can you see where this is going??
If I made a pot tall enough (so the microworms didn't wiggle out) with an airline (with nonreturn valve of course) into the tank, can I not do the two jobs in one go?? Or not?? Thoughts please!!
I'd need a jar with a large flat lid to allow access to the worms, and I'd have to silicon the airline into the lid... hmmm might it work??

 

[Arfie]

Don't think so, the worms need air and if you had a sealed enviroment they'd be poisoned with CO2.

You'd also lose pressure in the airline pushing co2 into the tank when you opened the jar to get the worms out.

1 other thing, you do not need yeast on the ready brek, I just use plain old ready brek and they grow like mad, it just takes a couple of days to get going.

Arfie

 

[miggi]

Don't think so, the worms need air and if you had a sealed enviroment they'd be poisoned with CO2.

You'd also lose pressure in the airline pushing co2 into the tank when you opened the jar to get the worms out.

1 other thing, you do not need yeast on the ready brek, I just use plain old ready brek and they grow like mad, it just takes a couple of days to get going.

Arfie

I'd have to open the jar to water the worms and feed a few to the fish, this would give them some air exchange anyway... and if I use a stop tap and non return valve on the air line it'd keep the air to the end of the tube while I did it, yes the pressure would be released but I'm sure the co2 would soon build up again.
I don't know, might try it out when I have time to kill lol
Cheers
Marie

 

[teaker1s]

to presurise co2 would result in no oxygen and dead worms