[kimoyo]

Hey,

I asked about this in a thread in the beginner's forum and I am really interested in this method and wondering if anyone has tried, had experience or just knows what it is. Thanks.

[House of Laughter]

Nice Paul - check this out

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tyreecmatv1.htm

House

[fritz]

Farmed Sponge - Reeffarmers utilizes natural filtration systems based on Steve Tyree's Zonal Filtration Methodologies. We currently do not have any protein skimmers on any of our 7 farming reef systems. These methods rely on crytpic sponges, sea squirts and bi-valves. Steve Tyree harvests excess cryptic organisms growth and distributes these organisms via Reeffarmers and his own Zonal Natural Filtration web site. We will be updating the Farmed Sponge web page soon.

Not only does Tyree offer LE corals but for 2 easy payments of $19.95 you can have his "zonal filtration system". Call now and we'll throw in the handy veggie-slicer and stow away carry case.....

They are sponges and bi-valves. I have tons in my sump, I should have marketed them. "Fred's natural filtration system". Ho-hum if you ask me, the guy that did the filtration system of pests was much cooler IMO. He created a refugium of sorts filled with pests and put an insane UV on the return to keep them from coming back to the display. He said it worked well.

[fritz]

On second thought let me take back the ho-hum. It's something different than what the majority of people do and that makes it interesting and cool in my book. Great topic.

[Wes]

fwiw i think he sold farmed sponge before the whole LE thing took off.

you can't argue with results, it seems to work well for him

[jejton]

Whats LE?

[meschaefer]

Quote: Originally Posted by jejton Whats LE?

A way to get you to fork over more $ for frags. It stands for Limited Edition.

There are a couple of threads on RC regarding the use of cryptic fuges, which work off of this prinicipal.

I will see if I can find them for you.

[meschaefer]

Cryptic Zone Filtration

There are other's, this was the only one i could find immediately. Also, I am going off the title, I didn't read through it.

[kimoyo]

Thanks everyone! I've been in the hobby for 3 years and this was the first time I considered buying a book for it. But maybe not

Matt - thanks for the link. Looks like lotta good reading in that thread. I'll read it next week and report back here.

[meschaefer]

Quote: Originally Posted by kimoyo Thanks everyone! I've been in the hobby for 3 years and this was the first time I considered buying a book for it. But maybe not Matt - thanks for the link. Looks like lotta good reading in that thread. I'll read it next week and report back here.

I don't care what people say, there is still alot to be said about a good book. You are getting peer reviewed information, that someone has taken the time to organize. The information is then presented to you in a systematic fashion, that builds upon itself so that you learn in an efficient manner.

One of the problems with asking questions in a fourum. Is you need to know what questions to ask, and then you get information from an unkown source, that may be provided inaccurately or in a inefficient manner.