DSB Cleaning

[tkhawaja]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

What makes you say that a properly setup DSB has many benifits and few negatives? Ron's article? Or long term personal experience?

I don't know if DSB's were the "trend" when I was doing my research but that was the suggestion all over the web. Unless I read all the wrong websites. My tank is only a few months old and thus is still going through the various algae bloom cycles as I didn't have the space to cure the LR properly before adding it to the aquarium. This resulted in lots of green hair algae growth. My green algae bloom is over and now it's into the red algae bloom. I'm just trudging along with my normal maintenance and every week the tank looks better with less nuisance algae.

I've had 0 nitrares since a few weeks after setup, lots of healthy macro algae, and copepod growth. Corraline growth is good and coming along nicely. Every week I pull out more hair algae, and it's not growing back. The only thing I'm worried about is Valonia, but I figure once all the excess nutrients, due to the hair algae die off, are exported it will be better.

I'll post my success/failure after I finish adding all my planned organisms. But don't hold your breath, that could take years according to my plan.