Marine Pure

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I don't believe it would make any difference.

Surely the bacteria will grow in number whilst ammonia is available, and then the population will stabilise.

I cant see how in any operating reef tank bacterial growth would be limited by surface area, even if it were limited to the surface area of the stony inhabitants themselves.

I'm not sure why it's hard to see that bacteria that metabolize ammonia might not be limited by surface area. Obviously, if you reduce the surface area low enough there will not be enough space to accommodate the bacteria needed to metabolize the available ammonia down to an acceptable level (assuming they are involved at all in ammonia control)..

The question is, if you have a tank that has, say, 0.01 ppm ammonia on average, and then add ten times as much available surface area, would the ammonia decline more? I think it seems likely, and undesirable, but I've never seen data to demonstrate it one way or the other.

 

[Mark Novack]

Without considering other questions, it it a wonderful bioflter. Huge surface, great flow.