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Originally Posted by Spectre2006
Very nice in all the detail and design put into the system. The mangroves look amazing. Anyway to calculate how much nutrient export is occurring for the space utilized. Could the space be used more efficiently for a artificial nutrient export. Did you use miracle mud for the mangrove substrate?
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We are using Miracle Mud for the mangroves. There was a bioassay done on Miracle Mud and it proved to be just silica sand with a bit of iron and calcium. You could do the same thing with silica sand, aragonite and laterite mixed.
The mangroves are growing well, so they are removing something. We had a lot of mysid shrimp growing in the mangrove system, but I killed them off dosing carbonates to raise system alkalinity and kill red candy floss algae. The plasma light really encourage nuisance algae, particularly red varieties that we don't get under the Orphek LEDs.
Having the vertical growing space is a good use of dead space, and it puts some life into the fish room. Once the pods and mysids return we will be back in business.