more clams dead
although I am no clam expert I think I understand what Jayson is talking about.
The same thing aplies in planted F/W tanks whare we dose nitrates as food, even though the tank is cinstantly producing nitrate my test kits always reasd 0. so by controling the nitrate level at 5 or 10 ppm, you are insuring that the plants get all the nitrate they need.
in a Reef tank there could be a chance that the sand bed will outcompete the clams and that the calms are not going to get as much as they would like so in the same tolken by maintaining a level of 5ppm you are not going to hurt anything but you will ensure that the clams will get there fill.
make sence?
Steve
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