Inhome composting in a aquarium!

bobberman · January 18, 2012

Why not? If you can get a well balanced compost indoors that does not have a strong smell you will be doing good. I myself would like to see what is happening so I would use a aquarium with a cover. Remember the old ant farms where you could watch them! Worms may work a air rater set on a timer to come n a few minutes a day may help! Having a temperature gauge inside would show you how the mix s working! may be a interesting project even in a greenhouse!
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If put near a window a plant may even grow inside the compost mix! lots of possibilities away from the norm! you could even have clear jars with other exprmental mixes inside the composting aquarium. The small temp gages for aquariums could be in every jar. Its too early for this brain tension thinking! How much heat will a small compost give off maybe even as a heat pad for seed starting!

jennifer28 · January 18, 2012

are you thinking of the aerobic kind of composting or the anaerobic kind that happens with bokashi? I want to do the bokashi type of composting, thought about doing it at school, and then I saw a cockroach in the corner the other day (I seriously think it was crawling up a pipe from the lunchroom) which made me reconsider the at-school composting idea... I think I would be voted "least popular staff member" if I started a cockroach farm... but then again, maybe people would be happy because the cockroaches would leave their areas and come over to mine? hmmmmm...

ContainerTed · January 18, 2012

An Aquarium???????

Have you talked to the Guppies about this?????

erlyberd · January 25, 2012

Get some worms and let us know how it works out. I have two worm bins in the basement and the worm compost they produce is pricless! I just use rubbermaid containersand they seem to work just fine.Heat system for seed starting??? Lets keep it simple there bobber. Can you say 15watt lightbulb inside a styrofoam box? Works great.

January 18, 2012	#1
bobberman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Latrobe Pa. Posts: 142	Inhome composting in a aquarium! Why not? If you can get a well balanced compost indoors that does not have a strong smell you will be doing good. I myself would like to see what is happening so I would use a aquarium with a cover. Remember the old ant farms where you could watch them! Worms may work a air rater set on a timer to come n a few minutes a day may help! Having a temperature gauge inside would show you how the mix s working! may be a interesting project even in a greenhouse! === If put near a window a plant may even grow inside the compost mix! lots of possibilities away from the norm! you could even have clear jars with other exprmental mixes inside the composting aquarium. The small temp gages for aquariums could be in every jar. Its too early for this brain tension thinking! How much heat will a small compost give off maybe even as a heat pad for seed starting! __________________ Frank the Bobberman & Carpet Installer Inventor of the Bobber With A Brain,. Gadening, Greenhouse, Fishing, Softball, Scrabble. Single looking for a woman with a 100 acre farm!

January 18, 2012	#3
ContainerTed Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: 6a - NE Tennessee Posts: 4,538	An Aquarium??????? Have you talked to the Guppies about this????? __________________ Ted ________________________ Owner & Sole Operator Of The Muddy Bucket Farm and Tomato Ranch

January 18, 2012	#2
jennifer28 Two-faced Drama Queen Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital Posts: 955	are you thinking of the aerobic kind of composting or the anaerobic kind that happens with bokashi? I want to do the bokashi type of composting, thought about doing it at school, and then I saw a cockroach in the corner the other day (I seriously think it was crawling up a pipe from the lunchroom) which made me reconsider the at-school composting idea... I think I would be voted "least popular staff member" if I started a cockroach farm... but then again, maybe people would be happy because the cockroaches would leave their areas and come over to mine? hmmmmm...

January 25, 2012	#4
erlyberd Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: CT Zone 5 Posts: 186	Get some worms and let us know how it works out. I have two worm bins in the basement and the worm compost they produce is pricless! I just use rubbermaid containersand they seem to work just fine.Heat system for seed starting??? Lets keep it simple there bobber. Can you say 15watt lightbulb inside a styrofoam box? Works great.