SantaMonica
Well-known member
That's because the screens produce TOO many pods. And as I've said from the beginning, as does Mike and Morgan at IA, that you have to kill the pods before they eat the algae. Once a week. Even at this, I still have pods swarming around the display.
Maybe. I'm also thawing my mysis cubes in tap, and adding that to the tank. But that's why I'm here... to test.
Difficult to follow.
Come on. You are making my point for me. Yes, inorganic N and P are food: Food for algae. I hope you do know this. To the beginners reading this: This is why the algae grows as it eats up the inorganic N and P, which is what your test kits read. Algae do not eat organic N and P, which is thus left in the tank to be consumed as food.
That's right. Organic (read: organic) N and P are in flake food, mysis, phyto, minced clams, pellets, live feeders, cyclopeeze, brine shrimp, daphnia, silversides, blood worms, plankton, krill, nori, prawns, worms, oyster eggs, squid, selcon, marine snow, and amino acids. That's why we want to leave organic N and P in the water. INORGANIC N and P (read: inorganic) is what we want to remove, and it's the main diet of algae (besides ammonia).
Than ask them here. Some of the "other sites" (which nobody here cares about) stray off-topic and don't hear what I'm saying, and demand proof, then post their own proof which they don't even review themselves, not realizing their own proof actually makes my case and dis-proves thiers. So I've limited my posting on those sites to just things I'm currently "proving", like the above LFS test which is now in it's 3rd week. If they don't want it they can delete it.
That's right, I forgot I asked you before and you said you are getting ready to start making skimmers as a home business. Thanks for reminding me. I've only asked two people, and the other guy never responded. Regardless, I don't care if it's old or not. It's very pertinent because the skimmer business has paid PR, marketing, and promotion people, as well as paid shill posters, and paid product users. Any by "payment" I also mean free product. Turf scrubbers have none of that.
Myself. Except I'm not a manufacturer, and I'm not paid.
Salad:
I try to only contribute with what I have first-hand experience with, and even then, only if it has enough impact to warrant my time on it. And I think most people would agree that you should only advise others if you can do it correctly yourself. Beside, running three simultaneous real-time experiments, as well as designing and installing an acrylic version, and replying to folks who are trying to build their own, takes time.
) and I would have told you that the entire reefing world should convert to an ATS. By the end of 1998 I was singing a different tune. I was sick of my water looking like pee, none of my livestock looked particularly happy, and I was tired of making a mess of myself and my home scraping off the screen. To top that, I never achieved zero nutrients (whatever that really is 
) and I never fully eliminated troublesome algaes from my display. My 75 gallon tank utilized more than 2 square feet of screen. Was my particular experience successful? Until recently I would have said yes. I'm beginning to question that though. I became a much better reefer the day that contraption sprung a leak and had to be retired.
