Great Catch Diana, that's just what I was looking for. Don't recall if that was the exact setup that caught my eye in the reef mag, but the quality of Barr's approach is enough to replace it!
Rcsheng, I see what you mean. If these particular macros are placed in a non-native high-flow environment, they could be physically degraded with force and may spur a nutrient release back into the water thereby giving dinos or microalgae a chanced foothold? I can see how that might work and you've also mentioned yet another shift away from the norm, lo-flow marine setups. But, on that note, isn't it interesting to think that all that concentrated daytime photosynthetic activity (and resultant 02 production) would still keep the oxygen levels quite high, as we tend to use upper-level surface agitation to increase DO in our reefs but in the case of a planted setup you have direct transfer of oxygen straight into solution! I still am interested in seeing a years-old marine planted setup, to see how the husband handles the stresses of time and still keeps the aquascape in check...I'll read further on your posts you found Diana to see what kind of longevity we are deaing with here. Neat feedback guys and gals, good stuff
