Excessive fish waste good for plant?

[isaac newton]

I have 11 neon, 5 guppies, 3 dwarf puffers, 1 corry 2 crabs and 5 algae eaters.. As you can see i have alot of fish (bordering overstocked). You can probably imply after feeding this fish produce a hefty ammount of waste. Is this good for plants??? What are the benifical nutriants that fish have????

 

[ChilDawg]

You'd almost need plants in a tank like that if it is only a 10 gallon...how big is it?

Plants take pretty well to fish waste as long as it's not certain types...see this thread for a discussion of fish waste that may or may not be good for tanks: http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10833

 

[djlen]

Up to a point, most fish waste is beneficial to plants, if you have enough plants to handle it. Again, a question of balance. Ofcourse everything does have a point of diminishing returns.
But by and large, a good balance of nutrients, plants, light and fish will produce a beautiful, algae free(in theory) aquarium.
Len

 

[superjohnny]

Your crab is a bottom dweller so he has to live in the excessive excrement. (insert *****ty* joke here)

Lightly vaccuming the substrate is a good idea to avoid excessive buildup.

 

[isaac newton]

Yep its a 10 gallon... 30watts of florecent light, dyi co2 (bell reactor).. What elements do fishwaste contain? Do they have iron etc?

P.S. Ill try to get some pictures from the recent developments.. I am quite satisified from what i have now to what i use to have

 

[ChilDawg]

Depends on what you feed the fish in question--read the fish food container!

 

[isaac newton]

When fish digest the food, dosen't it change chemecal structure when it comes out the other end

 

[ChilDawg]

It does some, but it's not likely that they're gonna slough off a lot of nutrients that they don't get from the food...there will, however, be a lot of those same nutrients in more concentrated form.

 

[nvision]

let's see some pics.

 

[ChilDawg]

nvision, I hope you mean pics of the tank, and not of the digestive processes!