礁石水族馆的爱好是过去的消耗性收入和精神带宽的时期。这解释了为什么即使重点应该是关于珊瑚礁，鱼类和倒置的礁石生活，我们也会对有关现场岩石类型，表面积和可用的“内部孔网”的长期讨论。
As a hobby it’s totally fine and welcome to spend time splitting hairs over the minutiae of one’s own passion and hobby, but as this video clearly shows, we’ve gotten so far off from the substantive part of the discussion, that the simple, logical conclusions are not being made. Yes of course the surface area of live rock and aquarium rock does matter but probably not at all in the way that the topic is discussed by reef aquarists, and not exactly in the same vein as whatBulk Reef Supply礼物在这里。
In their investigative reporting, Bulk Reef Supply wanted to find out which kind of rock used in reef aquariums is the most porous. Thankfully BRS included a sample of MarinePure biomedia, formerly known as Cell-Pore, to help us deliver the real conclusion to their investigation.
In conventional marine aquarium wisdom, an aquarium needs a lot of surface area in the filter and in the tank in order to house beneficial aerobic and anaerobic bacteria for biologically cleaning the aquarium water. The logic goes that more surface area equals more beneficial bacteria equals more-better-faster processing of nitrogenous wastes such as ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
What we find greatly amusing is that the “challenge” of sufficient surface area was completely overcome thirty years ago with bioballs and a deluge of creative high surface area objects. Then in the nineties we figured out that the bioballs were working too well in their wet-dry environment and we removed them allowing the live rock to shoulder the burden.
当Bioballs从我们的水族馆中流放时，关于要删除多少，坦克是否“生存”的速度和是否会“生存”的讨论过于谨慎。不用说，礁石水族馆从未遭受过多或太快的生物壁的苦难，因为在水族馆中，细菌可以生长的水族馆中有无数的表面。快进二十年了，为什么我们还在谈论水族馆中活岩的表面积？
Nearly all reef aquarists are guilty of using way more than too much live rock, sometimes cramming rock in unnecessary places in the tank, overflows and sumps. But let us ask you, have you ever seen or heard of a reef tank with a real ammonia problem? Seriously though, we’ve never walked up to a reef tank and seen animals with symptoms of ammonia or nitrite burn. The case in point is that discussing live rock in terms of its surface area forbacteria完全浪费时间。
Want proof? Bulk Reef Supply’s own measurements show what we’ve known for decades, that a single slab of a specially designed biomedia has somewhere around ten times the surface area of any rock we could possibly get. So how about we just put a nice slab of high surface area media in our sumps and say we forget about the surface area of live rock altogether?
Well we have a totally different take on live rock surface area and it’s the inverse of what is conventionally espoused. We feel more comfortable and in fact prefer dense rocks with as little surface area or porosity as possible in our own reef tanks. The reason is that all that “internal pore network” is just as good at trapping waste and nutrients as it is at housing bacteria. Except that once the pores are packed with detritus and mulm the porosity that was supposed to be our ally in housing beneficial bacteria is now our enemy in being a sink-then-source for nutrients in our water.
我们踩了十多年的孔隙式派对线，直到我们建立了一个美丽的180加仑礁石坦克，大约在8年前，带有很多令人敬畏且昂贵的Pukani Rock。起初，Pukani Rock看起来很棒，它的表面非常适合放置珊瑚，它很快就增加了很多珊瑚藻，每个人都说水箱看起来很棒。这是它在鼎盛时期的视频。
然而，大约12个月后，坦克确实开始改变角色 - 在美丽的Pukani Rock的所有毛孔中都积累了很多碎屑，所有的流动，所有的流动和虹吸和变化都无法阻止Pukani Rock释放了一年多的营养物质。最终，坦克走下坡路，超越了救赎，我们发誓要重新检查礁石中的岩石，以及孔隙率在礁石水族馆环境中的真正作用。
When you walk up to a great or terrible reef tank, there are a lot of criticisms and praise that can be put on an aquarium system. If the water is yellow you can suggest more frequent carbon use, if detritus is building up you can offer some tips on improving water flow, so on and so forth. However, not once ever in the history of reeferdom has anyone ever praised or criticised a reef tank for having too little or so much biological surface area – just hasn’t happened.
The real take away message is to stop getting caught up on the inconsequential details of how hypothetical things are supposed to work, widen your view and try to look at the big picture. In the case of live rock and porosity, just buy a slab of stupidly expensive ceramic biomedia, stick it in your sump, and use as little live rock as you need to hold up your corals or to build the aquascape that you really want – and reach for theless多孔的岩石，您获得的每一次机会。汤加分支以获胜！
