Hello everyone,
I have a empty refugium with two sections for my new 210 gallon new setup. They will feed DT water directly without skimmer(skimmer,biopellt,GFO carbon will all host in third section before water flow back to DT), the dimension for first section is 13L x 18W x 12D, and 18L X 18W X 12D. My design is put liverock and Chaetomorpha in first section with a powerhead to prevent waste build up. and for second section, it will be about 5" deep sugar sand mix with fiji mud, i want to culture Manatee Grass, Shoal Grass and 1-2 red mangrove to create a seagrass ecosystem.There are a few question.
1. I have read some research papers which suggest not to remove seagrass's litter and allow waste to build nutrition into the sandbed, so the more rich nutrition in the sandbed, the maturer seagrass bed. The idea is when those waste get decomposed. most nutrition will deposit into sandbed and consume by the ecosystem. and eventually the ecosystem will transfer those nutrition to our fish and reef system or skimming out through skimmer. The concept definitely works for nature ecosystem, but do you think it will work for our such small system?
2. as total water level only about 6-7" deep, do you think it is good for Manatee Grass or Shoal Grass?
I have a empty refugium with two sections for my new 210 gallon new setup. They will feed DT water directly without skimmer(skimmer,biopellt,GFO carbon will all host in third section before water flow back to DT), the dimension for first section is 13L x 18W x 12D, and 18L X 18W X 12D. My design is put liverock and Chaetomorpha in first section with a powerhead to prevent waste build up. and for second section, it will be about 5" deep sugar sand mix with fiji mud, i want to culture Manatee Grass, Shoal Grass and 1-2 red mangrove to create a seagrass ecosystem.There are a few question.
1. I have read some research papers which suggest not to remove seagrass's litter and allow waste to build nutrition into the sandbed, so the more rich nutrition in the sandbed, the maturer seagrass bed. The idea is when those waste get decomposed. most nutrition will deposit into sandbed and consume by the ecosystem. and eventually the ecosystem will transfer those nutrition to our fish and reef system or skimming out through skimmer. The concept definitely works for nature ecosystem, but do you think it will work for our such small system?
2. as total water level only about 6-7" deep, do you think it is good for Manatee Grass or Shoal Grass?