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Originally posted by MCsaxmaster
There's a lot of merit to your line of reasoning. The way I would suggest as helpful to interpret this phenomenon is that greater resource availability/flux (to a point) tends to increase the length of food chains and the potential for biodiversity. Increasing biodiversity tends to reduce waste and improve efficiency of a food web. Hence, even though one may be feeding more and there may be a lot more creatures in the tank a well-fed, biodiverse tank may actually produce less waste (which needs to be removed) than one with sparse feeding and low biodiversity.
cj
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Thanks, that's what I was thinking - it's what I see in my tank -
that the higher bioload the tank is "trained" to handle, the more stable, almost bulletproof, it seems.
I have to solve my phophate export issue --- I guess I'll add a reactor. But if I can export phosphate successfully and subsequently have some success with acropora type corals - I will personally consider the concept of keeping the bioload to a minimum a dark ages concept. Or at least "old hat"
