hellooooooooo my reef
Im have gone completly skimmerless now for 5 months now
There shouldn't really be much for a skimmer to do in my tank since my turf algae scrubber is doing the work. I know this is kinda experimental but i have been doing some reading and if i take the right precautions skimmerless can work. The turf algae scrubber most powerful feature is that it leaves food particles in the tank so the corals can feed, yet it removes nitrates and phosphates, most of the time down to zero. This is the OPPOSITE of what a skimmer does; a skimmer removes food particles (so corals starve) and then leaves the nitrate and phosphate in the water so you have to use other methods to get the nitrate and phosphate out. And how about all that gunk that your skimmer pulls out? Well, half of it is food that you just fed, and your corals wanted to eat it. What about the other half, the waste? Well, that's food too! . The reef food consists of relatively few things: zooplankton, phytoplankton, dissolved organics, particulate material, and bacteria and many tanks are low in zooplankton and phytoplankton. That means the other things have to make up the lack. What does your skimmer remove? The rest of the natural food.Are you skimming out unwanted things too? Yes Possibly allelelopathic chemicals, excess metals and excess dissolved organics. but my Activated carbon does the same thing but it leaves the food in the water.
turf algae scrubber is High removal of nitrate and phosphate, low removal of foods its true ! 100% my soft corals are very happy in my tank now.
my 45 gallon reef tank is 100% turf algae scrubber only!
My nitrate and phosphate are zero ......
Im have gone completly skimmerless now for 5 months now
There shouldn't really be much for a skimmer to do in my tank since my turf algae scrubber is doing the work. I know this is kinda experimental but i have been doing some reading and if i take the right precautions skimmerless can work. The turf algae scrubber most powerful feature is that it leaves food particles in the tank so the corals can feed, yet it removes nitrates and phosphates, most of the time down to zero. This is the OPPOSITE of what a skimmer does; a skimmer removes food particles (so corals starve) and then leaves the nitrate and phosphate in the water so you have to use other methods to get the nitrate and phosphate out. And how about all that gunk that your skimmer pulls out? Well, half of it is food that you just fed, and your corals wanted to eat it. What about the other half, the waste? Well, that's food too! . The reef food consists of relatively few things: zooplankton, phytoplankton, dissolved organics, particulate material, and bacteria and many tanks are low in zooplankton and phytoplankton. That means the other things have to make up the lack. What does your skimmer remove? The rest of the natural food.Are you skimming out unwanted things too? Yes Possibly allelelopathic chemicals, excess metals and excess dissolved organics. but my Activated carbon does the same thing but it leaves the food in the water.
turf algae scrubber is High removal of nitrate and phosphate, low removal of foods its true ! 100% my soft corals are very happy in my tank now.
my 45 gallon reef tank is 100% turf algae scrubber only!
My nitrate and phosphate are zero ......
