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Originally Posted by DiscusHeckel
You have not answered my previous question about the use of activated carbon to harvest the produced biomass.
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It will certainly help reducing TOC and DOC.
In fact better as a skimmer as it is known that a skimmer removes max 35% of TOC. Not skim able TOC will stay behind and build up, skim able TOC is removed. Bacteria are forced to use not skim able DOC.
The use off skimmers is in discussion because of the selective way they feed and remove live bacteria and the effect on the bacterial balance and evolution on the long term in a closed environment. It would be interesting to know which strains are skimmed and which strains are not skimmed. Which strains are favoured by not skim able DOC. In fact, most live bacteria removed are not skimmed but carried out on the foam.
http://www.baharini.eu/baharini/doku...iwitafschuimer.
The use of skimmers is an other discussion.
Activated carbon will not prevent that the produced protein due to carbon dosing will be consumed and become part of the food chain. As far as I know it does not absorb life bacteria ( with the exception of those which grow on it the moment it is removed).