In Reply to: Eggshell + Nikki + SG vision posted by Anne on June 23, 2000 at 14:15:53:

For the calcium to be absorbed it has to be in solution. It is highly likely that if teh chunks are too large the glider will just spit them out. Otherwise tehy have to be small enough to be dissolved. Try it yourself. Grind up your eggshell then add 50% to water and see how much goes in solution. Then try with sprite or some other soda with a high acidic solution. Hardly any will go into solution. First your eggshell is put into water in teh leadbeaters solution then it hopefully reaches the stomach and the acid. It has very little chance of making it into the bloodstream. As to colours gliders probably see on a completely different spectrum than us and detect uv rather than viible light. They probbaly do not even think of red in teh same conceptual way we do. They respond more to motion than colours. Totally in tune to their lifestyle.
All is based on fact but no hard research to prove it!
: Well, I don't have a blender. I do the Leadbeater's mix in a food processor. It just breaks the shell in small pieces that the gliders would never eat.
: So I have started grinding eggshells in the coffee grinder (after cleaning all coffee grind from it of course). When the egg shell has turned into a very fine powder, I add it to the Leadbeater's mix.
: I would really like to know if it is true that the egg shell does nothing at all, because it's a lot of work that could be saved. Is there any reliable source that talks about this, Nikki? And if the article about the gliders seeing in greyscale + red is erroneous, is there a source that would give us an idea of how they really see?
: Thanks

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• Thanks.More info welcome.n/m Anne 22:30:32 06/23/2000 (0)