Basile
Well-Known Member
I'm at cross road here. My system is very much in sync, by this i mean, my Reef dominated with soft corals including NPS , seafans, gorgonians and sponges ; demanding a hight nutrient rich water and and a huge 75 G display macroalgae tank
I dose every day, for different species and different reasons. One of them is i lost species before because of lack of food. Some NPS , and having 11 sponges enough to filter my whole system of 230 G in 24 hours , i have to supplement for their health. Clam, many filter feeders, and larger polyps i choose to feed broadly because it'd be hours spot feeding.
The resulting nitrates or phosphate goes perfectly for my huge refugium, for which i had to shut OFF my GFO to have enough food supply for it to survive and even then it almost starved, i had to supplement has my nitrate depletion and phosphate was gone so was my iron.
This came as the macro grew , exponentially , the more macroalgaes, the more it suck in the nitrates and phosphates.
So my solution is integration of the two and converting my fuge into a full fledge tank. In other words, putting my macro in my reef so it can be pruned by the tangs, foxface, and snais, and the same in the refugium after i buy some fishes. I've always like the look of mixed tanks.
I have huge backwall that for grazin could be filled with some of those macro's and use my nitrates and phosphates instead of micro nuisance algaes.
What do you think? Do you see any problems or error that could be happening in the long run.
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