Hello and welcome to Mark’s Shrimp Tanks. Today we're going to be making some Snowflake
food for our shrimp. Snowflake food basically is the hull of soybeans-
I have a very huge pack here and how this works guys is soya beans- when the hull is
in the water it gets either starts to decompose, it's covered in a thing called mycelia which
is a type of fungus. Now, you you already have this probably in
your tank, they attaches to any decaying matter- this is why when we use things like leaves
and when they’re stuck in their tanks the shrimps are always on them, this is why because
they're always eating this stuff before we see it. Typically, you will see the Mycelia in your
tank when you first set up your tank because you get this like white stringy like fungusy
stuff coming off, your wood basically. Okay, so that is what it is, that's why we
put in our tanks to help and encourage this fungus to grow. By the way guys as well, this type of food
is also very very good for if you’re going on a holiday for example, okay? So we're going to make some of this today,
we have a bowl here- this is going to be in two or three days parts because this is how
long it takes to do this. You have your soya bean, I have a lot here
so I’m going to put a half of this into this bowl, another plus with this is that
I live with a couple of vegans, my kids are vegans so they can use the rest of this, my
wife will use what's left. Basically, the food we’re going to do here
guys is, we are going to rehydrate these soya beans with some water and this will be a process
that takes a few days, normally it takes one or two days for them to absorb all this water
and when they do, if any of you guys remember the video where I showed you how to de-shell
and peas, we’re going to do exactly the same thing- when you grab the little soya
bean you squeeze it and the bean will come out and the shell will be left in your hand,
right, it is that part that we need. This is going to be over a couple of days
so that will be as always, one momento. Okay guys, welcome back this is what they
look like after one day, can we see it’s swollen up a little bit, this one’s already
been popped. What you want to do is you want to squeeze
the soya bean in your fingers to take the shell out, you see the shell? So after the rinse and repeat we’ll do this
so many times, probably a couple thousand times. I think my wife will help me do this as well
because she will use the soya beans for the food for the kids, because your soya is a
number one vegan product. You see how easy that is? Just rub it between your fingers, cos if they
don't come up very easy then it’ll open sort of a bit longer, okay? So the soya bean are de-shelled as you can
see, this took me and my wife about 2 hours to de-shell this much, right, so this is still
kind of wet. After being sorted and de-shelled using the
squeeze method the same way you do for peas and what we’re going to do now, guys, I
want to put this in the oven on a very little heat to dry and when it softens it’s going
to give a shape like this to separate all the shells, okay? So we had a disaster, I should be showing
you how we use the dried soya bean into the tanks right now, the problem is there is no
more dry soya bean because my wife burned them in the oven; she didn't know I had them
in there and she set the oven to cook something and it just burned the soya bean. So we had to do it again, so this is the new
stuff and I want to share something with you guys as well here, it's easier if you put
your soya bean in boiling hot water and use a masher like this to break the skins basically
loose from the soya itself, because what happens is as the water heats up it forces all the
shells to rise in the water and you’re easily able to scoop them out, right, so it's much
easier to do it that way. What I’m going to do just now guys is I'm
going to use this little chopping board, put some in here, I just want to show you what
this looks like as well, you’re strapped to my chest and we're going to use this really
sharp knife here and we’re just going to cut this up like so, as best we can because
the soya beans themselves I put some of this in the tanks yesterday and it was pretty big,
so you do want to cut this up, alright? Give it a good cooking, I don't know what
you call this in chef terms or whatever. Okay, so we have our soya bean here and I’m
going to put some of this in the tank just so you can see. I’m going to put this in… Oh snowflakes, how hard was that to make? It’s super super easy. I’m going to put a little bit in every tank
actually. I’m having a hard time finding where you
guys are looking because you're on my chest; just ignore them Mark, just ignore them. But there won't be any tea-stays for these
guys either because this is the type of food that is used over days, used over days and
days. And I don't think you can see anything I'm
doing, I can't even see my hands that’s how good the camera work is, what I’ll do
is I’ll put this down and I’ll pick you but are we journey by hand. What we’re going to do with the rest of
these guys here is we are going to… and I'll put some more in my tanks but what we're
going to do is we're going to dry them as well, and thank my wife burning them. Let’s see, I’m trying to get this set…
oh, there you go, I use a bungee cord to strap you to my chest you see. Alright, so we have put some in the tanks,
let’s see how it looks. [Song starts]
Mycelium are the largest organism on the planet (more precisely, a specific honey
fungus measuring 2.4 miles [3.8 km]) Some species can live for thousands of years
Estimated weight of individuals is over 100 tons
The fruiting body of Mycelium are called mushrooms [Song ends]
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