Hypothetical Question

[aquanaut]

Wouldn`t more food available at a given moment build a larger colony?


Colony size being directly proportional to concentration and not total bioload... or vice versa?

 

[IITUFFTOBEATII]

with the same bioload the ammonia & nitrites would be zero in all tanks. How ever there would be a diffence with nitrates the 500g would have 1/5 the level of the 100g and the 1000g would have 1/10 the level of the 100g.

in terms of concentration yes, but the total amount will be the same for all tanks

 

[IITUFFTOBEATII]

Wouldn`t more food available at a given moment build a larger colony?


Colony size being directly proportional to concentration and not total bioload... or vice versa?

perhaps the higher concentration would produce a larger colony..... but eventually this colony would come into equilibrium with the food supply... supply-demand. At a lower concentration a smaller colony could process the same amount of food because it has more time to do so.

 

[aquanaut]

perhaps the higher concentration would produce a larger colony..... but eventually this colony would come into equilibrium with the food supply... supply-demand. At a lower concentration a smaller colony could process the same amount of food because it has more time to do so.

Ok

 

[IITUFFTOBEATII]

So this thread was just for conversational purposes; but it was not without inspiration. I am doing some planning for the summer (upgrading) and trying to get things underway sooner rather than later. I have been putting off filling my large "tank" because I dont have the pump/filter/sump all figured out yet; but it occured to me that even though I am dramatically increasing the volume of water I am not increasing the bioload any, and therefore not increasing my filter needs either. I cannot physically install my current sytem on the new '"tank" so I hit a dead end there, but theoretically it would work.