Can you use milk to add calcium to your aquarium?

[SlugSnorter]

Can you use milk to increase calcium in an aquarium. Or would it kill your fish. Would live to know because then when my fish are low of calcium I have to go to my fridge instead of the fish store.

no, its only good for cookie cutter sharks

 

[JPM San Diego]

Is this the brand of milk you are suggesting?

 

[MONTANTK]

I’m trying to decide if this is a genuine Q or a joke…

Hey, just remember that at one point someone decided to dip their corals in insecticide

 

[snorklr]

it has to be free range manatee milk...and if you've ever tried to use a breast pump on a manatee you'll understand why its so expensive

 

[beehive124]

I would urge caution if trying this. It is actually quite difficult to balance yourself on top of the aquarium while controlling the dosing quantity at the same time. Also it is important not to dip your ‘dosing pipette’ into the tank water itself.

I have never laughed so hard at something on this forum ever XD

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Actually, in complete seriousness, there was an SPS reefer in Taiwan back in 2014 who dosed his tank with literal milk and honey (if you google “dose milk and honey reef tank” you’ll see a ton of results about it) and it seemed to work for him.

My understanding is he used the milk for nutrients and the honey as a carbon replacement, but I could be off there. Anyway, his tank looked pretty good, but I don’t know if anyone would recommend the approach.

 

[Bombschell]

I am shocked how much attention this thread got! lol I seems like at the price of milk right now anyway it would be more cost effective to just buy the supplement and does it in ml. Milk has calcium but how much would it take to get to approx 400ppm!?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

My thoughts exactly but I’m also rolling on the floor laughing to some of these

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Actually, in complete seriousness, there was an SPS reefer in Taiwan back in 2014 who dosed his tank with literal milk and honey (if you google “dose milk and honey reef tank” you’ll see a ton of results about it) and it seemed to work for him.

My understanding is he used the milk for nutrients and the honey as a carbon replacement, but I could be off there. Anyway, his tank looked pretty good, but I don’t know if anyone would recommend the approach.

We use sugar for carbon dosing so the honey makes sense. I think it would take a lot of milk to reach desired calcium. Might be an effective source for minor elements or carbon dosing idk but lets get down to brass tacks here. Pasteurized or unpasteurized?

 

[G Santana]

Well, it does a body good
Whole
2%
Pasteurized
Homogenized
I'm assuming not soy or coconut

 

[Just John]

I 100% wouldn't be surprised to hear in the future that milk has been discovered to be great for tanks. I also heard someone on R2R saying that they actually did pee in their tank to get it started. "cheap and easy".
But you have to buy a step ladder first.

 

[X-37B]

Milk is for baby reefers. Real reefers dose beer, lol.

 

[G Santana]

Milk is for baby reefers. Real reefers dose beer, lol.

Vodka lol

 

[X-37B]

Vodka lol

Yes but beer has more nutrients than vodka, lol.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

@Randy Holmes-Farley say something please, I’m lost and I need an adult before I buy a bunch of pharma grade catfish milk.

 

[Bombschell]

@Randy Holmes-Farley say something please, I’m lost and I need an adult before I buy a bunch of pharma grade catfish milk.

Maybe we do things different growing up in south Louisiana, but we did not milk our catfish. We sometimes soaked them in milk then battered and fried them. I was not aware fish had nipples, i've skinned and cleaned my share. I guess you learn something new every day. Where exactly are the mammaries on a fish, and what the heck is "catfish milk"? I bet it tastes pretty muddy till it's been pasteurized?

 

[sp1187]

Yes but beer has more nutrients than vodka, lol.

vodka.. potato juice.

 

[fish farmer]

Maybe we do things different growing up in south Louisiana, but we did not milk our catfish. We sometimes soaked them in milk then battered and fried them. I was not aware fish had nipples, i've skinned and cleaned my share. I guess you learn something new every day. Where exactly are the mammaries on a fish, and what the heck is "catfish milk"? I bet it tastes pretty muddy till it's been pasteurized?

It might be the boy parts that get "milked".

 

[Bombschell]

It might be the boy parts that get "milked".

No wonder I never found any, I have been doing it wrong!

 

[NowGlazeIT]

vodka.. potato juice.

Potatoes in juice…. Blasphemy I tell you!