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Well, there's nothing wrong with feeding dead phyto, or dead fish or shrimp or seaweed. Of course, we already do that.
I've fed dead phyto (ESV brand). Didn't see any apparent benefit for filter feeders (my reason for dosing).
If you want to claim that dead is better than live, that will be a very hard proof, and I don't see why its better than other sources of all of those same chemicals you posted.
Well, there's nothing wrong with feeding dead phyto, or dead fish or shrimp or seaweed. Of course, we already do that.
I've fed dead phyto (ESV brand). Didn't see any apparent benefit for filter feeders (my reason for dosing).
If you want to claim that dead is better than live, that will be a very hard proof, and I don't see why its better than other sources of all of those same chemicals you posted.
the reason you may not noticed the advantages could be related to the amount of the dose. For the example in my previous experimentation I was using 3.2ml per gallon of live phytoplankton. That dose was reached by starting from a very small dose over a large period of time to let the system grow with it.To look at the concept behind of what I’m trying to propose ( hopefully with your help and other that have a larger chemistry knowledge than I do ) We need to look at a standard carbon dosing system, for example if you had a 100 gal. tank with half a dozen pellets in the reactor I would think that would be pretty useless at doing it’s job. With this concept is very similar imo.
with this concept in mind I’m not trying to feed copepods and mysis shrimp, it goes a bit further, with the decomposition of phytoplankton I’m trying to feed the full circle of life, starting from microbes that get eaten be microscopic zooplankton ( the ones that live in all our tank surfaces but not visible to naked eye) that in turn will feed coral and larger plankton. Most of this life need to also be seeded during the process by introducing live rock.
in Addition I have in mind that as the microbes decompose the phytoplankton it could aid the denitrification process .
and yes you’re also right there’s no way on earth that I can prove anything of what I’ve just said. But most studies that I’ve seen do suggest that all life in the ocean is dependent on phytoplankton indirectly or directly.