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Secondly, what is the survival rate for the plankton if it is being pumped at this speed?

April 26, 2017plankton pumped rate secondly speed survival

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Secondly, what is the survival rate for the plankton if it is being pumped at this speed?

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So lets say that you believe the water is moving too fast to grow enough food or the pump is killing too much of the plankton and I add a true refugium above the tank to grow food and other species that aren’t suited to the main tank. I’ll move the water through here pretty slowly and gravity feed it back to the main tank. Now I have crystal clear water and yummy food for the Mandarins. Finally, the skimmer question comes up. I understand you like them and I will probably end up with one. However, I will probably begin without one as an experiment to see how much fish-life I can safely support without one. The research I have done and the feedback from others seems to indicate that an algae bed/mud system without a skimmer is sufficient if you keep the fish population fairly low. I’d like to do some tests on this theory an