Adam

 

Me too.

 

 

I half way agree.  I'll believe it cleared the water in 2 days.  I'm just not ready to say that it ate the phytoplankton.

 

Adam

 

I need to make a confession here. I honestly believe that comparing the skimmer to the ocean froth swept up on shore just doesn't fly far with me. Have you ever thought about the possibility that the tide comes back in and washes most of that skimmate back out to sea.

I have seen how rotifers can clear phytoplankton. When it's done you have a tank full of rotifers. There were no rotifers left over when the plankton cleared. I looked for them. And the tank cleared much quicker than it would have with the introduction of a few rotifers.

This was not an experiment. There was no hypothesis and no control. It is simply an observation. And nothing much was changed except the removal of some rock because the new clam and brain needed space.

I know I'm going against the grain of what the experts have been saying for the last few years. Indeed, the experts changed their tune a few years ago. Where they used to say that all clams did best with phyto, now they say that only juveniles need phyto. That may be true, I don't know for sure, but I know what I saw. That large Squamosa ate the phytoplankton and cleared the water within 2 days.

 

What do you mean by "unskimmed system"? Don't get me wrong but isn't that what ocean waves constantly making a frothy sea foam and washing it on a beach is? I'm not saying that's all there is to it, but even nature uses it's own "protein skimmer".  Man, I'm just a dumb guy trying to sound smart like Adam Blundell so just laugh at me if I'm wrong.