I don't.do you guys pause your skimmer and filter socks and such when feeding phyto? If so, how long?
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I don't.do you guys pause your skimmer and filter socks and such when feeding phyto? If so, how long?
My skimmer catches and amplifies after a day. Starting to think I should culture it in my skimmerPhyto is too small to get caught in filter socks. A filter sock is usually 150-200 microns and phyto averages 5-15 microns depending on which one. I imagine it can get caught up in the skimmer. When I dose, it is during feeding time, so the returns are off, the MP's are throttled back and I just let it spread throughout the water column.
Night. After lights out as I add ab+ to it for the coralsWhat time of day does everyone dose phyto?
The place I get my indestructible phyto from has the concentrations listed on each of their containers.I believe that there is no exact science, at least, not with home grown phyto.
Mostly, concetration is unknown, and it varies from batch to batch, i highly doubt that most of us acctualy do any kind of testing, really not sure what ine can possibly test.....
So, leap of faith, just pour it, and hope for the best.
From my observation, with 200ml daily on 500(600)l tank, corals do seem happier, but this is just personal opinion, not a fact.... Benefit to pod population remain to be seen.
Only real, measurable thing i noticed, my po4 finaly rise to measurable leveles, currently at 0.05.
Again, any positive or negative effect of this remain to be seen....
0. non. Zero.
Doesn't your tank produce phyto?phytoplankton?!
This is the grimme on the sides of the tanks. The biofilm.
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I will have to ask them how they figure minimum density. I am curious now. They mostly grow for mussels and oyster rearing and have a formula for feeding.Well, yes, if someone grows phyto for selling...
My comment was for home growing, where each batch is probably slightly different, probably mosy people are guided by culture color to "guess" density....