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Coir Cakes to Fish Tank FC
    #27010143 - 10/29/20 11:08 AM (3 years, 2 months ago)

So check this out...
10/7 I had just made some Coir/Verm substrate for some shoeboxes and then I was thinking about the Cup O’ Shrooms thread. So I grabbed 3 foam cups, threw some coir in each one. Grabbed a spoonful of colonized grain threw that in each one. Then cased each cup with some more coir. I misted generously and then put some cling wrap over the top to hold that moisture. I let them colonize for 10 days. I remembered I had a 1.5 gallon Shrimp Tank that I just cleaned out sooo... I said, “lets make a modded FC out of this thing”. So, thats what I did. The tank is 12in x 6in. Perfect for a couple cakes.
    I washed some perlite threw that in. Then heres “Mod #1”. For all my liners I use 3 mil black sheet plastic, so I cut out a rectangle slightly smaller than the size of the tank floor. I cut 5 square holes out at each corner and the center of the plastic. Reason being to allow air flow in between, under and around the cakes. I put my cakes spaced apart on the plastic. I misted my cakes then heres “Mod #2”. I cover the top of the tank with cling wrap except for a small corner of the tank to allow air exchange. Conveniently my shoebox lids fit perfectly on the tank, so I used this to better secure the cling wrap and hold heat.
    10/17:The cakes went in the tank.
10/25:Note: Tank is holding humidity and getting good FAE. First pins arriving.
10/28 Harvested 1 cake and the other 2 cakes are not far behind. 10 grams wet off the first cake. Not bad for a spoonful of grain! :tongue2:
Conclusion:
•Coir Cakes “CAN” be made and are awesome.
• Fish tanks can be used to fruit cakes with beautiful results.
•Black sheet plastic over your perlite works as well if not better than foil sheets. Your shrooms wont roll in perlite and the black plastic draws heat to your cakes all whilst allowing air flow.
•This is a fun easy experiment that can easily be modified to larger scale production. IE; Larger tank, larger cakes, more spawn etc.

Note: If anyone sees or knows of a thread with the same experiment let me know as I was unaware and am not taking credit for it. I simply am showing my original experiment. I do want credit for something that has not been tried before by anyone but myself and that was found to work. *Black Sheet Plastic Over Perlite* Maybe...
                                                                                           
                                                                                         
                                                                                      -Myco                 




2nd Cake:


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Edited by Mycopsilo (10/30/20 08:05 AM)


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