| I think Eric is correct in that heterotrphy can certainly provide our corals enough carbon and nitrogen by-products. The problem is, I do not feel like this is practical in such small aquatic systems as our tanks. Sure, you can always feed and feed corals and eventually they will get everything they need but this would really compromise our systems. So, this might work in the wild but in the aquarium, VHOs/halides/PCs are needed in order to compensate for our aquarium's inability to "flush out" wastes...
Just my 2 pesos
Take er easy
Scott T. |