Needle Wheel Impellers Destroy Plankton
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alexx2208
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I guess...... Meant more that its not a top priority, and less that its impossible.
I think that were meaning more about the bacteria and plankton going through the pump all the time, and not living in the skimmer.
spamreefnew
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Well it would have to go through the impeller to get inside the skimmer....
bogg
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Hi guys! That's my thread about "dumping the needlewheel"
Ime running zovit since 2003 once kz switched over to this funky Chinese style skimmer they starting producing now the kz revolution they started seeing positive results better PE etc. they actually switched from large needlewheel skimmers and changed the guidelines also in the guide as to not use a needlewhheel, so I bought one and noticed almost immediate overall polyp extension and the main thing also was the lack of potassium addition also as before with zeo we had to dose a lot of potassium. We found out later the hard way with random rtn due to low k, so ime it really helped me out and the thread was posted over on the zeo forums because the newbies really overlook the needlewheel as its not recommended for the system and ime was a night and day experience
With that being said the plancton friendly thing is rather a silly marketing perk
I have seen others with success with needlewhheel and zeo
But for me as I said before it was a big difference better overall health of coral and less k added
Their hypothesis was in zeo system perhaps elements are lost or chopped with needlewheel whatever it was imo the kz s was a major major positive reef changing experience that's all so when these newbies answer yes to #7 iirc in the zeovit guide in running a needlewheel although in their systems guide it's not recommended to and I see them posting their issues due to it their problem is obvious to me so I started the thread as a wake up call sort of.
Ime running zovit since 2003 once kz switched over to this funky Chinese style skimmer they starting producing now the kz revolution they started seeing positive results better PE etc. they actually switched from large needlewheel skimmers and changed the guidelines also in the guide as to not use a needlewhheel, so I bought one and noticed almost immediate overall polyp extension and the main thing also was the lack of potassium addition also as before with zeo we had to dose a lot of potassium. We found out later the hard way with random rtn due to low k, so ime it really helped me out and the thread was posted over on the zeo forums because the newbies really overlook the needlewheel as its not recommended for the system and ime was a night and day experience
With that being said the plancton friendly thing is rather a silly marketing perk
I have seen others with success with needlewhheel and zeo
But for me as I said before it was a big difference better overall health of coral and less k added
Their hypothesis was in zeo system perhaps elements are lost or chopped with needlewheel whatever it was imo the kz s was a major major positive reef changing experience that's all so when these newbies answer yes to #7 iirc in the zeovit guide in running a needlewheel although in their systems guide it's not recommended to and I see them posting their issues due to it their problem is obvious to me so I started the thread as a wake up call sort of.
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[QUOTEWell, I don't use either filter socks or skimmers but filter socks come in a range of pore sizes so it kinda depends on the size of the zooplankton species and the sock used.[/QUOTE]
A filter sock is only at the rated porosity until it is filtering something, at that point the pores catch and collect and the filter begins collecting smaller and smaller particles as the spaces between the particles become smaller until it clogs and is bypassed by what it is filtering. All filters work is way.
A filter sock is only at the rated porosity until it is filtering something, at that point the pores catch and collect and the filter begins collecting smaller and smaller particles as the spaces between the particles become smaller until it clogs and is bypassed by what it is filtering. All filters work is way.
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