Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / October 2007

I would not expect there will be one "way to go" in any kind of fish tanks.
Reef tanks are no exception.

I have some experience with DSB and I like it a lot.
Plenum seems too artificial to me :-)

"Scott E. Nelson" <snelso5@tampabay.rr.com> wrote on Fri, 26 Oct 2007:

Plenums appears to offer no advantages (and the disadvantage of additional
complexity) over deep sand beds.

Almost everybody uses DSBs and live rock (and usually a protein skimmer)
these days, rather than plenums and mechanical filtering.

       -- Don
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When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police.
But then I got curious about it.  I picked it up, and started wondering who
this person was, and why he had deer horns.  -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey

They never were the way to go.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

Scott E. Nelson wrote on 10/26/2007 10:19 PM:

My guess is that someone had an undergravel filter once, and the powerhead died.
They didn't notice for several months, everything survived, so - bang. The idea
of the plenum is born.

Getting serious. That's all it is. An undergravel filter with no water flow.
Perhaps the space is useful to allow detritus to collect, but I don't see how it
could do anything else.

George Patterson
    If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
    to anything.