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One thing we used to practice in FW planted aquariums, when starting a new aquarium we would use fast growing plants like Hygrophila sp., Ludwigia sp. and floating plants for first 1-3 months to give the chosen plants time to develop their roots, bacteria to establish, parmeters to stabilize, etc. At the end of this initial phase, the fast growing plants are removed.
This often prevented microalgae from dominating the aquarium during that fragile initial phase.
Why not apply this same logic to reef aquaria? Use macroalgae from day 1 to soak up the excess nutrients and allow the bacterial colonies to become established. In fact I would presume you could float them in the main display to blanket a lot of the light from reaching the bottom and preventing the microalgae from taking hold early on.
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This often prevented microalgae from dominating the aquarium during that fragile initial phase.
Why not apply this same logic to reef aquaria? Use macroalgae from day 1 to soak up the excess nutrients and allow the bacterial colonies to become established. In fact I would presume you could float them in the main display to blanket a lot of the light from reaching the bottom and preventing the microalgae from taking hold early on.
Thoughts?