ok, this might be an easy answer...
I am setting up a mainly coral 750lt tank (lots of inverts but little to no fish that do not have a coral caring purpose)
I am pushed to get reactors, to use anti phosphates and carbon, probably uv and ozone....
I believe it is overkill, to my wallet but also to the circle of life I want to set up.
I want to have algae and copepods in the refugium, and have areas in the tank that are inaccessible to fish so that I get a copepod colony there too.
I am under the impression that all these (UV-ozone-carbon-phosphate removal) will be obstacles to this thing I want for my tank.
My reasoning is:
I am setting up a mainly coral 750lt tank (lots of inverts but little to no fish that do not have a coral caring purpose)
I am pushed to get reactors, to use anti phosphates and carbon, probably uv and ozone....
I believe it is overkill, to my wallet but also to the circle of life I want to set up.
I want to have algae and copepods in the refugium, and have areas in the tank that are inaccessible to fish so that I get a copepod colony there too.
I am under the impression that all these (UV-ozone-carbon-phosphate removal) will be obstacles to this thing I want for my tank.
My reasoning is:
- UV - kills copepods
- ozone - kills copepods??
- carbon kills nutrients that copepods need-also needs at least a sock that will filter out copepods
- phosphate removal solutions - removes the nutrients that the sump algae will need to house most of my copepod colony.