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Originally Posted by lex  I have heard of using cryptic zones as a skimmer replacement. all the sponges and seasquirts have the abbility to remove very fine to desolved particulate matter. Also heard of mangroves being able to absorb desolved matter and replace skimmers but not too sure if that was proven or just an individual claiming so. |
Both of those require fairly large "
mangrove bed" or "
cryptic zone" to
Display Tank ratio. I have mangroves and as slow as they grow they would take a fairly large # of them before you could see any noticeable effect. I'm not saying they have NO effect but it makes sense they can only be taking up so many nutrients as slow as they grow.
I'm not saying you HAVE to run a skimmer but when you see (and OMG smell) what your skimmer pulls out of your tank I don't see how you could really argue that it's not a good thing.