After spending the past couple of days reading about Triton/Zeovit/Aquaforest stuff, something just sort of clicked in my head and won't go away:
If I'm keeping an ultra low nutrient system (1-2 fish in 130-140G of water - one tang, one wrasse), feeding once a day, why do I need a special reactor, when the ONLY nutrients that are going in are the stuff I'm putting in?
I get that certain things will be used up by the corals, I'll check for those and dose accordingly. It's understandable that amino acids/other minerals/vitamans/proteins/etc will be used as well.
With a bigger than needed skimmer (I've got one that is for 200G, and with such a small bioload it's going to be way overkill), filter socks changed daily, and passive chemipure/carbon/whatever in a bag, it seems to me I'm wasting money by setting up a reactor and dosing carbon/vodka/etc. There won't be enough food to cause nutrient build up, and with 10% weekly water changes, I probably won't even have to dose two part. Granted, once there are colonies in there, sure it will need additional ca/mg/alk, but up until then I can't see how it makes sense.
Maybe I'm just slow, but after weeks of seeing great Nano SPS tanks doing the same thing I've just described above, why wouldn't it scale up?
If I'm keeping an ultra low nutrient system (1-2 fish in 130-140G of water - one tang, one wrasse), feeding once a day, why do I need a special reactor, when the ONLY nutrients that are going in are the stuff I'm putting in?
I get that certain things will be used up by the corals, I'll check for those and dose accordingly. It's understandable that amino acids/other minerals/vitamans/proteins/etc will be used as well.
With a bigger than needed skimmer (I've got one that is for 200G, and with such a small bioload it's going to be way overkill), filter socks changed daily, and passive chemipure/carbon/whatever in a bag, it seems to me I'm wasting money by setting up a reactor and dosing carbon/vodka/etc. There won't be enough food to cause nutrient build up, and with 10% weekly water changes, I probably won't even have to dose two part. Granted, once there are colonies in there, sure it will need additional ca/mg/alk, but up until then I can't see how it makes sense.
Maybe I'm just slow, but after weeks of seeing great Nano SPS tanks doing the same thing I've just described above, why wouldn't it scale up?
