yea,Its an outdated system and mainly abandoned IMO because its not pretty in its most basic form and its not as easy and plug and play as newer systems. I requires work a jbj cube does not...
This system is also much more heavily reliant on natural filtration than mechanical, thus the smaller skimmers, utilising heavy micro flora and fauna and bacteria as the main forms of filtration. Cyano and diatoms have no chance in that type of system. Thus the "bulletproof". It falls in line with work of ron shimek paul b, the ecosystem method to a point and others of the time. My tanks and reefing style have actually been pretty heavily influenced by all of these and I do hope I can get some GARF grunge before its too late too. With slight modifications it works quite well. The lights skimmers and hardware are pretty easily adapted, the grunge and mud are actually the heart of the system .
Leroy passed away some years ago and Sally Jo and family runs the store now I assume. Some of their coral we all know the names of and are almost legendary in quality, as they really figured out domestication of many species first imported into the country..
pretty cool stuff.
me Id love to see one of these up and running. But I like old stuff and watching peoples faces when I use a film camera.
and mention thats how the stil do it in hollywood for a reason.;)
