This Barfly fellow might be corrected:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showpost. ... count=2374
... nobody with a sm100 has crashed; they would have told me. There only was 180reeftank, who's tank-moving caused an unfortunate crash, as it would with any reef; and he had just started using the scrubber at that time anyway... it had not been in use long before that.
and Barfly's post here:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showpost. ... count=2396
...It's actually been 3 years for me with no WC; and that includes going through half-gallon iron overdosing; anti-bacterial-containing egg whites overdosing; powerhead re-arrangement die-off; 25 cubes/day equivalent overfeeding; zero feeding starvation (3 months) die-off. All have recovered with no WC.
What kind of a moron is Barfly to point to Adey's book, which makes the case for an ATS-only system that ran for 8 years with "no import" (meaning, only food was added) ?