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Originally Posted by djbon
I am on carbon dosing in a controlled environment for years and decided it might be okay running my reef tank without skimmer. After many months running without one, and still doing carbon dosing until today, I know bacteria is the answer to my nutrients management. It's easy, fully predicted and most importantly it's free. I like the concept of nutrient recycling method very much.
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If you are not using a skimmer, or some way to export the excess bacteria, I am going to have to disagree with you here. You may have built up a large colony of bacteria which sucked up those nutrients, but I dont think that is sustainable long term. I think eventually you will need to export that bacteria, or risk all those nutrients being dumped back into the system.
The idea is that the bacteria consume the nutrients and are exported via skimming. If you dont remove the bacteria/nutrients, they are just building up.