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I know, I get this. I’ve read into it quite a bit. My experience is that it drastically slows the systems ability to balance on its own, without bio load or additives. Opinion, not fact but I don’t claim it as fact. Many people claim facts and others buy into it as they believe the facts as they are construed.Having a small ball of Cheato in a fuge really does no harm at this point. It'll bind a little bit of nutrients but not a lot until there are enough to make it grow more rapidly... It is kind of self regulating in that respect.
The processing of organic input and the subsequent organic and inorganic nutrients is complicated, interconnected, and ever changing. When a tank is young, more help is needed to manage these inputs. The Cheato can provide that help.
There's some decent information in the article linked in my signature that talks about how these nutrients are used in interrelated processes.