| I don't think the blame is on the dsb. I think more the blame lies on the natural die off of creatures in the DSB. I think that they have a life cycle and unless you provide them what they need to continue to grow and multiple or have something that lives and lasts a long time. For instance there are places in my dsb that are up to 6 inches high. My gobies move the sand as do my spoon worm, bristleworms, queen conchs, and even one of my damsels. I know that my tank gets depleted from creatures like pods but having the refugium seems to keep the tank continuously supplied in new ones and I can always reseed if it looks like the bubbles in the sand are not enough. I was thinking about what you said about detrious. I have lots of tangs and they eat lots of greens. But my two spot gobies love what they poop, as do the serpent star and brittle stars. The thing that occurs in my mind is that the ocean is constantly changing and renewing yet in our tanks we don't do the same. We get the tank exactly as we want it and then we don't touch it. Except to do maintaince? Perhaps its the very stagnation that causes the tank to have the problems?
Now I'm throwing ideas out here for discussion. Maybe we need to add new sand or take bits out or perhaps we need to add creatures periodically. Perhaps to keep our deep sand bed healthy we need to find some way to feed it or to pick particular creatures to address what we have in the tank. What do you guys thing?
Mac |