Bones?

[P.A.NativesBPM]

Hello,

So tonight we had rack of pork for dinner, and I've got six nice bones I boiled to go in my tanks to do... Well, something Im not sure of yet.

Do you see any problems once they're sterilized?


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[itsalmosteasy]

The marrow inside rotting and fouling your tank?

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[Drstrangelove]

Yes, I don't see the upside of rotting flesh in the tank. Even without the marrow, bones are not rocks. They will degrade as they aren't inert.

 

[Chicxulub]

The only way that I could see you getting bones in your tank would be to buy replica fossil bones. They would look cool and would be inert.

 

[Zoodiver]

Natural bone will break down in water. You'll also have pH control issues as the calcium seeps out into the water.

 

[Aquanero]

Agreed, not really and up side to this as I see it.

 

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

I did this, I have an elk antler, my gf at the time told me it would look good in the tank. It was been sitting for 2 years and I didn't even think about what could happen. So after a few weeks my water started to cloud up, one of the tines was bloody and the water smelled bad. I then took the antler out and smelled it, it was one of the worst things I've personally smelled. I put it on the porch with the tines facing down, the next day or so I saw blood coming from two of the tines. So this whole time blood was draining into my tank.

So no don't do it. I didn't lose any fish, not saying that I couldn't have lost any but the smell was bad enough.

 

[tanker19]

If u really wanted something like that I would try sealing it with an epoxy resin if it was totally covered don't c how there could b any leaching


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[lonzoencho]

I did this, I have an elk antler, my gf at the time told me it would look good in the tank. It was been sitting for 2 years and I didn't even think about what could happen. So after a few weeks my water started to cloud up, one of the tines was bloody and the water smelled bad. I then took the antler out and smelled it, it was one of the worst things I've personally smelled. I put it on the porch with the tines facing down, the next day or so I saw blood coming from two of the tines. So this whole time blood was draining into my tank.

So no don't do it. I didn't lose any fish, not saying that I couldn't have lost any but the smell was bad enough.

Aren't antlers keratin? And that does sound pretty gross


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[Drstrangelove]

Antlers are bone, horns are keratin. It sounds contradictory from what we think, because bone seems permanent, right? But the antlers that animals shed each year are really bone that are grown rapidly, while the horns that are permanent are keratin.