Is anyone running this combo to help with nutrient reduction? Can seem to find much info on it. Thanks
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Man your tank looks great! what other filtration do you have going on this tank? Skimmer? I ordered an ATS and plan on using that in conjunction with my skimmer, i really wanted an alternative to pellets or vodka.
Here is the short story on how I ended up skimmerless with an ATS. I had a skimmer and no ATS with very low nutrients (0 nitrates, 0 phosphates) and developed a bad case of dinoflagellates. I tried everything and finally came to the realization that I needed to increase nutrients (grow algae, cyano, diatoms, anything) to out-compete the dinos. I experimented with an ATS and once it seemed to grow, I took the skimmer off to help the ATS take off. After a couple months there were no more dinos in the tank. My sps that had been very stagnant during the dino infestation started to color up and started showing signs of growth. Everything looks great now so why go back to a skimmer. I've thought about putting in an undersized skimmer at some point but I'm not there yet.
I'm in the same boatI actually had to dose nitrate for a while to try and get algae to grow.
do you have a Santa Monica ATS? How long did it take ur scrubber to get working?I fed 8 times per day with no results other than driving up the phosphate. I had 8 fish already (40 gallon)
I guess im confused on what the purpose of your comment was on a thread thats trying to obtain info on ATS systems with SPS since you dont have and ATSNo, I don't have an ats at all. I don't even use a skimmer
Rich I follow your tank thread pretty close and have always been impressed. I dont think I am shooting for a ulns but for right now my ranges were a bit on the high side and growth was for sure stunted it seemed. Does your tank stay around the ranges you listed?, i know your tank matured pretty fast and grew pretty quick.I am not a fan of ATS or fugues on SPS tanks because I want nitrate in my system. With 0 nitrates colors tend to be faded. If you keep .03 po4 and 10-15ppm nitrate you will have deep colored fast growing SPS (assuming everything else is stable and kept in range)
Rich I follow your tank thread pretty close and have always been impressed. I dont think I am shooting for a ulns but for right now my ranges were a bit on the high side and growth was for sure stunted it seemed. Does your tank stay around the ranges you listed?, i know your tank matured pretty fast and grew pretty quick.