It's cool that you can comment to multiple things in one reply, I didn't know that, pretty awesome. You're right about forgetting, I didn't forget exactly, I fell asleep while putting my baby to sleep a few times. I think I'll just try a higher quality ATO and hope for the best. Not big on throwing money away after a few months of use.
It's not gha, unfortunately I know what that is all too well with my 30g hex. Gha, gba, vermitid snails are the reason I'm shutting that down to only have emerald crabs and snails. I have snails and blue legged hermits in the 65g, neither one even bother with it.
My tunze ato is like 7 years old now and still cranking along. I changed the pump last year, not because it died, because it was old. I kept it incase the new one dies, and I'll run it until it does so.
You are thinking modern low nutrients, I'm talking low nutrients like 15 years ago where what was preached was run alk from 10-12 and 0 nutrients, back then 0 was not really 0 and tanks were different.
I’m not sure what you think is different from 15 years ago? I had a Hanna Checker about that long ago and zero po4 was 0.0.
