Hello from Los Angeles

Hi there. Just found MAC... don't know why I did not find it before. I'm going to figure out how to search, and see if anyone here is doing natural algae filtration, or continuous feeding, which are my two current interests.

Welcome to our forum. There is a site search button at the top of the page. I'm not sure we have anything specifically about algae filtration or continuous feeding, but if you post the subjects we'll learn a little more.

Well for my 55 gallon I use natural plant filtration and it works quite well. It is much more sightly and you can decorate tanks with plants. Algae may help soak up excess nutrients to a point. Also be careful about feeding.

Are we talking about a so called natural aquarium, or are we talking about an aquarium that has a perfect balance without filtering?

What's continuous feeding? Does it mean exactly what it says or does it have some special meaning in the fish keeping hobby?

For natural filtering, I mean doing the filtering with algae instead of skimmers, chemicals, or water changes.

For feeding, I mean feeding small amounts of liquid food in a 24/7 manner, so as to be able to keep non-photosynthetic corals like seafans, flower pots and sun's, without target feeding.

Well for the natural filtering, The plants work quite well and I think algae may do the same job. Although I think algae is just an indicator that there is an excess of nutrients. I think plants carry out the job much more efficiently. As for the water changes, there is no setup where you can skimp out on water changes except for the walstad method. I am currently trying to achieve that with some success. You can search the walstad method online. Hope this helps.

Water changes are not needed if using algae for filtration. I'll post the thread soon.

Thanks. It sounds interesting. Of course, when algae dies it produces toxins, so the filtering system would need to consider the algae life cycle.

Ok here is the info I was referring to, hopefully it will be of help:

www.myaquariumclub.com/mega-powerful-nitrate-and- phosphate-remover-222382.html#22238