Re: [compost_tea] Re: Flow forms
I thought protozoa need a 24 hour span to split. Can you give me a referen=
ce where protozoa start splitting every hour? I have never seen anything e=
ven closely resembling the kind of protozoa multiples that would be suggest=
ed by 1 hour reproduction times. There may be some out there but I just ha=
ven't seen them. I even made a chemostat to specifically brew protozoa and=
the three stage brewer design you can see on my web site came out of a des=
ire to brew protozoa in one, fungi in another and bacteria in the third. E=
ach have different brewing cycles and different foods and I test to see wha=
t I am getting.
When I tried to do this in one brewer, I ran into the very problems you des=
cribe. I was using alfalfa to add protozoa and they simply wolfed down eve=
rything they came into contact with. It is great fun watching them under t=
he microscope. I rigged a video camera and monitor and people are fascinat=
ed by watching the "bugs" dart around and stick their nose into everything.=
I even thought about making and marketing a video tape. If I did it righ=
t, I could call it art like that group of molecular scientists in Australia=
are doing.
There's a whole list of factors I would like to see explained so I have to =
keep researching and experimenting because I haven't found the answers I wa=
nt yet.
Look, I think building a brewer and getting bacteria to multiply is relativ=
ely easy. When you start adding higher order critters into the mix and are=
dealing with a closed environment with limited food and O2 sources, matter=
s become complicated. I, being a simple minded person, like to keep things=
easy and simple. But sometimes getting to simplicity is a lot harder than=
accepting complexity.
Ted
SOE
Received on Wed Dec 22 2004 - 21:55:18 EST
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