Decomposing is the word...long

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Posted by Bosse on March 03, 2000 at 10:50:06:

In Reply to: Bosse, what temps were they incubated at? (more) posted by dslizards on March 03, 2000 at 02:38:24:

The whole idea with these cages is that they are taking care of themselves, sort of. They have been running now for 6 years, and I havn't taken one piece of faeces out of those cages (!!!!!)..grose, you say..and I would have agreed before I tried it. There is a high pressure on the cages ( one cage contains 3 Golden Lion Tamarins, two 5' Iguanas, three Two-toed Sloths and two Red-footed Tortoises ) and still there are no bad smell or piles of s**t lying around, on the contarary the smell is like when you enter a "planthouse". ALL biological material is decomposed, leaving HEAT ( finally got there, lol )!! The material is warm from the decomposing process!! When I at 75 days where going to dig down and pick one egg up to see if there was a development in them I felt the heat and unfortunatly I didn't check it with a thermometer, but next time I will!! I think the temp was right when she laid them in January, but the incoming sun started to heat the cage somewhat ( maybe a couple of degrees C. ) and together with the moist in the cage it increase the decomposing and hence increase the temp IN the material as well ( sometimes MUCH to MUCH!! I actually cookeed some of the plant's roots at one time. At that time the material was HOT from decomposing. You learn from your mistakes!)

Answers your q? And, yes I'm very interested in the articles!

for now

Bosse

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nice followup, Bosse, I'll see if I can find my sources dslizards 03/04/00 (0)

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: Hi : The whole idea with these cages is that they are taking care of themselves, sort of. They have been running now for 6 years, and I havn't taken one piece of faeces out of those cages (!!!!!)..grose, you say..and I would have agreed before I tried it. There is a high pressure on the cages ( one cage contains 3 Golden Lion Tamarins, two 5' Iguanas, three Two-toed Sloths and two Red-footed Tortoises ) and still there are no bad smell or piles of s**t lying around, on the contarary the smell is like when you enter a "planthouse". ALL biological material is decomposed, leaving HEAT ( finally got there, lol )!! The material is warm from the decomposing process!! When I at 75 days where going to dig down and pick one egg up to see if there was a development in them I felt the heat and unfortunatly I didn't check it with a thermometer, but next time I will!! I think the temp was right when she laid them in January, but the incoming sun started to heat the cage somewhat ( maybe a couple of degrees C. ) and together with the moist in the cage it increase the decomposing and hence increase the temp IN the material as well ( sometimes MUCH to MUCH!! I actually cookeed some of the plant's roots at one time. At that time the material was HOT from decomposing. You learn from your mistakes!) : Answers your q? And, yes I'm very interested in the articles! : for now : Bosse

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