Reptile Guano

[mexweed]

anyone ever tried it?

I searched reptile before I made this thread and found a post about alfalfa pellets that are reptile food being used as a soil amendment

how about feed the reptiles the alfalfa pellets and brew a tea with their poo?

 

[paradoxlost]

I haven't heard about it, but I'm about to move into a new place and setting up a new grow and I'm definitely going to be putting some leopard geckos in the space. Those things are savages.

 

[40degsouth]

Might skink the house out??

 

[h.h.]

Only this.

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/FastFacts/pdfs/salmonella_reptile_F.pdf

 

[mexweed]

obviously dried and composted

bat guano can cause SARS and chicken manure is definitely a way higher salmonella risk

would the resulting guano from being fed alfalfa pellets specifically have all the benefits that people use alfalfa meal for such as triacontanol but also have a better P profile than alfalfa meal like guanos are typically used for

 

[St. Phatty]

reptiles are not vegetarians.

meat eaters' poop generally stinks.

 

[prune]

WHY?

 

[mexweed]

crab and fish stinks too, so does bison shit and all kinds of other things that get composted for organic growing, I have a bottle of liquid bone meal that smells like roadkill

they eat insects and alfalfa pellets, so will there be chitosan too

seems there is some information out there on maintaining a bioactive substrate with geckos

 

[thedudefresco]

look into frass

 

[Mr Jay]

reptiles are not vegetarians.

meat eaters' poop generally stinks.

Many reptiles have a diet comprised nearly entirely of vege matter. We're talking the big dumpers here too, search out a giant tortoise sanctuary, a lot of states have them.

 

[Cvh]

I personally don't see why it wouldn't work. It's just manure.
Try it maybe and let us know how it went.

 

[starke]

Stay away from reptiles that consume meat. Ten years ago I owned a motorcycle shop and had a six foot long Nile monitor lizard in a 16 x 5 display case with pool. It would eat three or four large rats or rabbits weekly. Shit smelled worse than any human.

For my outside garden I have composted chicken, horse, cow and goat manure over the years. No issues with those.