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Unread 05/25/2015, 02:50 PM   #1118
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Originally Posted by karimwassef View Post
You know... That might be the key!

Ok. Just stay with me till the end.

We're trying to remove a disease organism from the body (the reef), right? Most separation mechanisms depend on changing states to remove the offensive material from healthy tissue.

So, if you want to remove iron from dirt, you use a magnet over a conveyor belt.
If you want to remove fats from water, you cool it and skim the surface.

The idea is that, if the material to be removed has a preferential attraction, that can be used against it. That preference can isolate it from the rest of the system.

So how about we use light as a localization binding agent?

We turn all lights off for 24hrs, including the sump. Then we run an outside loop to a holding tank... Maybe a 5 gal bucket? ... That is very brightly lit. The bucket has lots of large opening mesh media (like netting or open weave cloth).

With a slow enough flow, the protozoa should choose to settle to feed off the light. Run this for 24hrs, then throw away the cloth or mesh...

Just thinking in a different box, and this is just crude concept for now, but maybe this allows for a low risk removal method.

Kind of like a hyper fast turf scrubber for dinos...
Very interesting idea. It may work for cyano as well...


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