Lumia 5.2 cree pucks

I will admit I take a much more natural approach to reef keeping, but why would you use a stump remover instead of a little more decaying food? The decaying food to me takes care of the rest of the food chain, which I will also admit we don't understand completely. I'm not throwing stones, I'm just curious why you chose this route.
 
troublemaker said:
I will admit I take a much more natural approach to reef keeping, but why would you use a stump remover instead of a little more decaying food? The decaying food to me takes care of the rest of the food chain, which I will also admit we don't understand completely. I'm not throwing stones, I'm just curious why you chose this route.
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Not at all. It is a legitimate question! I actually thought an amino acid supplement would be a cleaner and healthier way. I even posed this question to Brian here on Chicago Reefs just a month before.

Note that my tank is fishless. I am already at the point of putting in as much food/supplements that I can tolerate. I still don't know how much to feed, but I would have to leave a McDonalds happy meal in the tank (an exaggeration) to get nitrates. My filtration is plain ol' media basket with filter floss, carbon and gfo + 1/2 lb of rock per gallon. ( I already ditched the purigen even though Seachem support confirmed that it does NOT remove nitrates, specifically.) And most important of all, decaying food will add all kinds of unmeasurable dissolved organic carbons (DOCs) which we work hard to remove.

My guess: There is really something special in the way fish aggregates nutrients, excretes them back into the system for easy conversion to nitrates. And additionally, binding phosphate ions in an easily removed organic form. But, I still want to remain fishless for other reasons.

In case you are wondering about my insistence on nitrates, it is mainly about getting the deep purple color for my hammer coral and additional concerns for my mushroom/zoas.
 
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It does sound plausible. I understand not wanting your Nitrates low, mine sit around 10 and the corals seem healthy. I use a lot, actually a whole lot of Macro Algaes which grow and subside as my nutrients bounce around with an inline fudge of just Chaeto also. I guess we have opposite issues trying to find the happy ground in the middle. Thanks for the response.
 
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