loganj
Aquarium Advice Addict
I'm thinking about setting up a 40g breeder as a fuge. I want to use a DSB in it and plant it heavily with turtle grass instead of macro algae. I know we have had several threads about DSB's so far and how they may or may not become nutrient sinks as they age. My question is: Do you think the seagrasses, since they actually root in the sandbed, would utilize some or all of these contaminants? I'm not sure what percentage of nutrients the seagrass actually pulls directly from the water column and how much comes through the root system from the substrate. Another thought I had was to put a glass divider in the center of the fuge tank about 4" high. This would facilitate changing 1/2 of the DSB without disturbing the other half. It would seem, if in fact the DSB is going to crash about the 5 year mark, that you could change out 1/2 of it every 2-2 1/2 years and avoid the problems. The side that wasn't disturbed should provide, fairly quickly I think, the needed critters to repopulate the side that had been changed out. Anyone got comments/ideas/theories about this?
BTW, if you feel the need to tell me that this is the most idiotic idea ever conceived and that I should be shot for aquarium heresy, please do it via PM...I can take it 8O .
BTW, if you feel the need to tell me that this is the most idiotic idea ever conceived and that I should be shot for aquarium heresy, please do it via PM...I can take it 8O .