I keep mentioning how withholding feed doesn't mean they aren't getting food... is that concept worth investigating? its kinda the crux of the issue, the fact that bandwagoning literally misses out on how these bacteria have adapted for eons long before we willed them into performance in our boxes of water.
when you stop feeding, your established bac still get fed by:
-the close and requisite association with non filtration bacteria, that's a living, dying, and respiring community and by definition community implies benefits vs singular living, what are those benefits, and how do they confer ammonia right to the nitrifiers?
is anyone keeping a reef tank fallow out there where gnats and skin cells aren't wafting into the tank? whats the combined effect here?
what other natural feed mechanisms are in place, that are being ignored by like 20 people who don't work with bacteria for a living?
when you stop feeding, your established bac still get fed by:
-the close and requisite association with non filtration bacteria, that's a living, dying, and respiring community and by definition community implies benefits vs singular living, what are those benefits, and how do they confer ammonia right to the nitrifiers?
is anyone keeping a reef tank fallow out there where gnats and skin cells aren't wafting into the tank? whats the combined effect here?
what other natural feed mechanisms are in place, that are being ignored by like 20 people who don't work with bacteria for a living?
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