Kelp (seaweed)

sandrachameleon

Chameleon Enthusiast
Is anyone using fresh bull kelp as a gutload?

I've been using dried kelp in my dry gutload for awhile now. But I prefer to primarily use a wet gutload. Buying dried kelp isnt cheap and not always easy to find, but fresh kelp is free (since I live by the ocean). I thought after the next storm, or next time Im out in a boat, I'd harvest a little kelp and give it a try.

I know it has four times as much calcium as phosphorous. Some Magnesium, some Potassium, some Sodium (I wonder if rinsing it well would reduce that, or if its permeated throughout), trace amounts of many other minerals and of vitamins, almost no fat.

thoughts? suggestions?

If the bugs dont eat it, or if its not good for lizards, I suppose I could add it to soups for me. Or maybe I could dehydrate it and at least have cheaper dry gutload, or I could sprinkle it on things.
 
Isn't spirulina a type of seaweed? Is this similar to spirulina?

There are so many different types of seaweed, perhaps it would be necessary to get pictures of it.

I'd like to try some kelp!
 
Spirulina is blue-green algae.

This is kelp on a shoreline, low tide. and kelp washed up on a beach
http://www.teara.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/CFCD07FB-7800-43BB-99C2-716A7FA7A95E/74927/p4608enz.jpg
p4608enz.jpg kelp.jpg
underwater - kelp forest:
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Kelp-forest-Monterey.jpg
 
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Algae! For some reason I thought it was a type of seaweed. The color throws me off.

If this does end up being a good gutload, I'm going to have to start getting kelp from my friends in California! :)

Sandra, two of those pictures are 403/404'd.

edit: Just looked at eBay to see if there was any kelp. Found something! Kelp Powder, 8 oz.
 
That's cheaper than the health food store I get mine from.

But I still might try fresh.

Algae! For some reason I thought it was a type of seaweed.
Well, algae is a seaweed too I guess, but really really small. Bull Kelp is BIG
 
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Would probably be necessary to let it soak and change the water every hour or so?

I want to try some kelp, now. :p
 
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