I've been experimenting with how much I can feed my 90g, with only my 144 square inch turf screen doing the filtering
roflmfao :lol:
are you sure that that's the
ONLY thing doing the 'filtering' in your tank?
now your complete and total ignorance of how an aquarium/reef system works is truly showing, giving all every reason to not listen to any claim you make
you have no rock, sand bed, corals, inverts, biofilm, etc etc? these are ALL waste processors/filterers (and waste proiducers too, just like algaes) that majorly affect the levels of the only two organics that you seem to think matter
a dsb can be far more efficient at actually sinking phosphates via mineralization into/onto the sand, than a mat of algae, and has a far greater surface area for said mineralization/bonding sites than a mat of algae
please do some basic reading on reefkeeping before posting here further
and remember-'tanstaafl' is an axiom in the natural world
fyi i have an 18" cube at home, very heavily stocked, and VERY heavily fed. i use a hach digital colorimeter for testing, and cannot show a nitrate or phosphate level-no scrubber. i DO have an excellent skimmer, dsb, sump w/chaeto and additional lr, and do weekly wc's of anywhere from 10-25% weekly, depending on how the tank looks
i also feed,monitor, and help manage a 20k+ (app) gallon coral/invert system daily as (a minor)part of my job, btw, and have decades of experience testing and solving various issues involving po4 and no3
you truly are arguing waay out of your league
you're getting a reading on a less sensitive hobbyist kit-what does that tell you ? especially when your 'system' is larger in volume, and should be more difficult to show levels than a system as small as the one i have at home :idea:
