Sorry Forgot to switch form Want to HAVE I HAVE Venosum for TRADE http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/explant/msg0321455318616.html?1 NOT Looking For Venosum Thanx tylorgv / Replied to email / Thanx

Could they be Millipedes? They are pretty much harmless and eat the decaying materila in the soil. Sometimes just lifting the entire root-ball out (as long as it all stays intact) is all you need to do. If your lucky they all might be hanging out at the very bottom of the pot where it's the coolest and there is the most moisture. Then you can simply just dump them outside. Something I did with a mayers lemon last year. If you think they might be in the middle too, at watering time you can set the whole pot in water up over the brim foir 10-20 minutes, the catapillers, millipedes, or whatever they are should come floating up to the surface and then you can dump them off. I myself wouldn't use any chemicails. Billy Rae

I was not aware that duckweed was useful in that regard, but I googled and found that it is true. But the site I first found said "If the duckweed is to be fed to animals, a retention period in clean water will be necessary to ensure that the biomass is free of water-borne pathogens." This would add at least one step in between creation and feeding. (see more below) I have the feeling that there would still be an ammonia problem in a small building if you were going to grow ammonia-sensitive plants, but I have no info to back up what is just a gut feeling. But your idea made my mind jump to Aquaponics... At the Backyard Aquaponics website they use fish waste in water to feed hydroponically-grown plants: the fish water is pumped into the plant beds, the plants remove the nutrients, and the cleansed water is returned to the fish tank. I don't know if this would work for chickens or not. Thank you for more food for thought! Sue Here is a link that might be useful: Practical Duckweed: Application Areas...

Wow this thread has been ages hahaha but anyway i just wanted to share cause i also want answers. Hopefully someone has a good theory about it. I have a closed terrarium/vivarium that i tried or shall i say experimented. It looks interesting cause I tried building it on a 3 liter glass container. I learned a little about creating it but i would say i dont have any background of biology or other sciences. So i piled the largest pebbles that could fit to the container's mouth that has a hole of an inch. The height of the pebbles from the very bottom is around an inch. Next to the pile is white sand that i dried up from a beach for half an inch, next to that are colorful beeds-mixed red and yellow to make it colorful if u look at it from the outside. Thats half an inch as well. Next is clay soil for half an inch, then pounded charcoal for half an inch. I heard that charcoal could clean the air or stabilize the atmosphere inside this but im not very sure of it. Hahaha Lastly, is a pile of loam soil which is ideal for the plants to grow. I planted moss which i got from the bark of a mango tree, a few fern, and few grass that only grow around 1/2 inch. Poured 5 tbsp of rainwater. Apparently its close and it can get enough sunlight to suntain its life. Its 11 months now and never been opened. It looks healthy cause the water does its cycle inside the bottle like the rain. And u know what? The interesting part is, i saw really tiny insect and a spider that came to life. BDW i didnt put anything in it. Do u think that was just normal or was it just part of the life cycle inside the bottle? Hahaha