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Originally Posted by Subsea
With respect to your comment that the protein skimmer will pick up the extra load from carbon dosing in a reef tank, the same Dana Riddle article at Advanced Aquaria quantified exactly what a protein skimmer did remove. With respect to DOC:
Protein skimmers remove, at best, 35%
GAC removes 65%
Mature reef biofilter removes 75%
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Bacteria is not DOC...
Just getting terms straight, DOC is fundamentally
dissolved organic carbon smaller than bacteria, which is particulate organic carbon. Regardless I think you meant that it will selectively skim bacteria, which may drive shifts in populations (i.e.
https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2011/3/aafeature.)
But that is not what the OP is asking (long term effects of carbon dosing), he is asking if the carbon dosing will be synonymous to a refugium in the Triton method, in what it provides in "food" and export with elevated levels of bacteria.
Anyway, I personally would be skeptical that any bacterial from carbon dosing would be a good food source. But it certainly is a proven export method if skimmed.