| Nikki,
that makes sense to me. I agree w/ you. Admittedly we don't have any of the studies info, so all of this is pure supposition/assumption on our part here, but it would seem to be beneficial to remove from water (and undesirables) from the plenum area. The tough part is as you said, how often?
It takes on average 6 weeks to cycle a new (sterile) aquarium w/ damsels. Keep in mind this is the complete nitrogen/ammonia cycle in a dead (no bacteria at all) environment. And the length of time is due to the bacteria population needing to reach levels that can deal w/ the ammonia/nitrite/nitrates. So I would assume that after the plenum was established, (funtioning bacterial population) that it would take less time than that depending on the systems bioload. Maybe 4 weeks? maybe less? I dunno...Mike you read the study...sort of...what do you think?
Nick |