Fruit tree leaves test

[revolutionhope]

From left to right-

Apple cherry guava grape and (peach or nectarine I think!)

Treatment method -

Rinsed thoroughly, froze overnight, removed from freezer and soaked in container outside tank for a few hours then placed in tank. Most leaves fully sank by themselves but a few required a tiny bit of help.

I picked one older and one newer leaf from each tree for this test.

I will post a couple of update of how things are going in the coming days.

There is bountiful food in the tank due to having fed snow not long ago and then just now recently doing a gravel vac which always brings up lots of goodness for the shrimps to munch too!

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Will

[jayc]

Cool! an experiment!

Love these sort of posts.

You don't have mulberry leaves?  or ial?

[revolutionhope]

I am putting in mulberry and spinach today; I had somehow forgotten I had those plants! I have IAL but there is already some in the tank as well as all of those other leaves. The problem is that I keep forgetting which is which and they're even harder to identify once they're decomposing!

I'm hoping to learn which leaves become accessible faster which are better for longer term, which are most popular and which are the least messy. IAL is already very well documented we know this is great for long long term use.

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Will

[jayc]

You can weigh it down with a small rock or mineral ball.

That way the leaves should stay in the same spot, so you can identify them more easily, even when decomposed.

[revolutionhope]

Happy Christmas!

Shrimps are digging the (older) apple leaf now - this is two days after placing in the tank. The spinach which I dropped in more than 24 hours later is happily being eaten within less than a full day.






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Will

[revolutionhope]

One apple leaf down! The younger apple leaf is just being started on now.

Shrimps seem to be keener on algae and random biofilm etc for the most part but it is early days and in the past all of these leaves have been devoured given time so it will be interesting to see which variety is taken to next.

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Will

[jayc]

They went for the Apple leaf first over the mulberry, that's interesting.

[revolutionhope]

@jayc they are starting on the mulberry this afternoon which is a similar length of time as it took them to start eating the apple. I might do a side by side apple vs mulberry in the next week or 2 :-)

Apple

Mulberry


There's a little bit of renewed interest in the grape as well as the other leaves now. I've a suspicion that in the following day or two they will *all* start to get proper munched but time will tell.

[revolutionhope]

Peach/nectarine/?


One cherry leaf all gone. Other mostly left alone. No idea why!


Mulberry slowly being picked at too.