Let's talk about food and poop

[Aqua Pro Builder]

If anyone has the compositions of the foods and poops of all the stuff that we put a the tank, pls list them here.

e.g. Plants "eats" CO2 and release "O2" when lited
"eats" O2 and ...................when dark

In particular, I am interested in something like the littleneck clams.

 

[herman]

Wingo, we generally take the poop out not examine it! Or do we?:biggrin:

 

[nyguardian21]

so you wanna know what the clam poops with the lights on and off?
please explain, im interested

 

[DRZL]

I eat therefore I poop


the end

 

[jackson6745]

Wingo, we generally take the poop out not examine it! Or do we?:biggrin:

I smell it quite often :screama:

 

[jackson6745]

Wingo you can start by checking the ingredients of the food you feed I'm not quite sure how to answer your question.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Let me clarify a bit.

e.g.
1)The clams eat micro oraganism such as plankton, some bacteria, may be some very small frags of fish food....then they poop. What's in there, any ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, minerals......?

2)In another thread, a coral is munching a seahare, what does the seahare turn into? What waste material does the coral generate?

3)Fish waste include ammonia, excess vitamins, unabsorbed minerals, H2S....

 

[kimoyo]

Clams eat ammonia and nitrates.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Clams eat ammonia and nitrates.

Thanks, then what's their waste product-that's my main interest.

 

[herman]

someones got a poop fetish:Yikes:

 

[Deanos]

Clams eat ammonia and nitrates.

Aquacultured giant clams, Tridacna gigas and Hippopus hippopus, used as the main biofilter in a saltwater aquarium recirculation system.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Aquacultured giant clams, Tridacna gigas and Hippopus hippopus, used as the main biofilter in a saltwater aquarium recirculation system.

Deanos,

I got to say :inlove: .

You always get me what I want!!! That's exactly what I am trying to do except I am trying to go cheap by using littleneck.

 

[Deanos]

That's exactly what I am trying to do except I am trying to go cheap by using littleneck.

Littleneck Clams

Excerpt: "The littleneck clam is a suspension feeder, collecting everything in the plankton small enough to be ingested (Schmidt and Warme 1969). The size of particle ingested is controlled by the size of the mouth opening or the life stage. Clam postlarvae can feed only on particles under 10 pm in diameter, primarily benthic diatoms and perhaps sediment bacteria (Peterson 1982)."

 

[Hotwheels]

Thanks for the info Deanos

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Littleneck Clams

Excerpt: "The littleneck clam is a suspension feeder, collecting everything in the plankton small enough to be ingested (Schmidt and Warme 1969). The size of particle ingested is controlled by the size of the mouth opening or the life stage. Clam postlarvae can feed only on particles under 10 pm in diameter, primarily benthic diatoms and perhaps sediment bacteria (Peterson 1982)."

I read that article before too but still cannot find the info on the poops. My god, I am really poop fetish now.