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mikeb · 04-06-2005, 06:13 PM

Thanks, yeah it does help. But what you mentioned about them eating detritus and fish waste has me raising some more questions. In doing some research on adding plankton in the reef aquarium I came across some debate of its effectivness. I found some groups of people stating that it was useless to add phytoplankton (not sure of their position on zooplankton) to reefs. They said that tests have shown that they didn't do anything benificial to the tank. They said that these plankton were occuring naturally in the tank. [smiley=confused1.gif]

Mike

04-06-2005, 06:13 PM	#3 (permalink)
mikeb Flamingo Tongue Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Douglassville, PA,Pennsylvania Age: 39 Posts: 122 Karma: 8	Re: microplankton v. phytoplankton Thanks, yeah it does help. But what you mentioned about them eating detritus and fish waste has me raising some more questions. In doing some research on adding plankton in the reef aquarium I came across some debate of its effectivness. I found some groups of people stating that it was useless to add phytoplankton (not sure of their position on zooplankton) to reefs. They said that tests have shown that they didn't do anything benificial to the tank. They said that these plankton were occuring naturally in the tank. [smiley=confused1.gif] Mike _________ 55 gal reef with live rock/sand. Pro clear aquatics 75 wet/dry, Aqua C remora pro skimmer(in sump), 2 power heads,Coralife 260W power compact w/moon lights, 2 domino damsels, 1 yellow tang, 1 clown, open brain coral,2 pink condi anenome, candy cane coral, a long and a short tentacled plate coral, colt coral, rock anenome, 2 lettuce nudibranch, camelback and peppermint shrimp, orange tree sponge, orange linkia star, deep sea yellow gorgonian, assorted reef cleaners, 2 feather dusters.