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On Oct 6, 10:34 pm, George Patterson wrote:
Guayni; SAHS wrote:
I am sorry I have to post like this but for some reason it won't post
as a
new message...

Seems to be written well enough. I think you need either a reference to a
follow
up article that explains how to get nitrates out of a marine tank or you
need
references to existing articles that do this.

Your talk about LFSs arguing with you is spurious. Someone who has a
refugium is
in a position to add plant matter, and most LFSs will not argue about
that. What
you don't seem to understand is that the vast majority of their customers
are
not in a position to keep a refugium, and they must cater to the
majority. You
need to do this too. Talk about encouraging algae is also ridiculous,
since the
vast majority of us prefer to SEE our fish. "Harvesting" algae is also
very
problematical for most of us.

In short, I think you should remove comments about LFSs arguing with you.
You
should mention the fact that keeping plants requires something like a
refugium.
Finally, you should have an entire paragraph that describes how to go
about
encouraging and removing algae. And make sure you come up with good
method; hair
algae blooms are not acceptable. Neither is having the front glass
covered up
half the time.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

For what Guayni is supposed to be I think he would have aready known
that! He is afterall the proponenet that stated that you do not need
to do water changes and that he had a method to utilize his same old
water over and over without need of skimmers or changes........or
additional filtering.........and it tested out at 0-ammonia, 0-nitrite
and barely a trace of nitrates.


I'll like to clarify that I never said that a skimmer is not needed.
Actually, I am making one now.

It wasn't clear weather you meant that I discourage the water changes and
who's tank has a trace of nitrates, yours or mine?

I discourage water changes but find them necessary as a quick fix.

As for nitrates, my tank today read 70 on nitrates, this is my benchmark to
do a water change buy I am not to worried about it, NH3 and NO2- are down to
zero. Last water change was back in April, if it wasn't because my feeder
fell in the tank I could have waited until November.

G