I know that some animals do better in the ocean where in the ocean nutrients are elevated. Here is thing; elevated in the aquarium is not elevated by ocean standards, its is astronomical. Skimmers in general don't work well when not run continuously. Even the best, top of the line industrial skimmers only remove slightly above 30% of stuff we are trying to remove anyway. Even if you were to run the skimmer, rox, GFO, carbon dosed, etc (all the things we normally use to remove stuff), you would likely still have elevated nutrients beyond what would occur even in a lagoon with the possible exception of phosphates using GFO, but even that is iffy.
It is often hard to tell from stories of success (or failure) of other peoples tanks what the cause of that outcome was and quite frequently impossible to replicated. A good rule of the thumb to go along with "nothing good happens fast" is that "nothing good happens in isolation".
If your tank is doing well and everything is healthy and growing, I would be loath to change something that could easily change the situation for the worse.
