Lasse
When you posted my own thread as your proof that threw me for a loop.
Upon seeing that highlight link I thought: are you telling me I'm about to read a work thread that says I didn't see what I saw thirty years ago. Popcorn immediately
Then bam, I was deflated. Its a link that makes my case.
I linked a three year fallow test here, discounted.
Want to see a two year one? Would that make two people's stance any clearer if we did see more fallow threads... we might not notice or care about the pattern.
*An ideal way to make ground in a microbiology challenge is to set up a test tank and report what it does.
Make a test showing that you can't up cycle a tank using normal filtration surface area with water only. For marine systems, by first of the year if it can't process orders more ammonia than you gave it in cycling (give it zero) then you've got the article gold.
* If you can then never feed it ammonia again for two years, but keep it hydrated, and then it won't process ammonia at two year mark, that's all you'll ever need for proof.
You'll shut a multi page debate thread down in one link. Not really, they'll just ignore it
Let the record stand this is the world's easiest claim to test or not. Making claims without collecting (making) work links is safe zoning.
Any reader
Make the experiment and let us know what you find. Chemists would never be caught guessing or failing to model a test.
None of this is arguing and I absolutely want Lasses input. If we aren't exposing and undoing bacterial myths we're at least discussing something relatively new for the hobby, so there's passion. It's not boring, we evolve reefing this way.
The reason I care so much is because the state of tank invasion/loss of animals/do overs/ waste is all tied to step one: how aquarists think about bacteria. A new aquarists -entire- hesitation vs deliberate action behavior depends on boundaries we choose for ourselves. What we think about bacteria sets those boundaries
Deliberate reefers win long term, lose less, better evolution. We might have prevented Mortie from coming back to a bloom of some type, now he'll come back to that acro Forest
