I was hoping that someone here had success with bio pellets and sharing their experiences how to use them to avoid water change, but it looks like there is no one here doing that.

I use pellets, and am a big promoter of them. But I also will say that you need to keep doing your water changes. It is just a fact of life in this hobby.

You can search the internet and find people that don't do water changes, but overall what can happen? System crash? Loss of minerals for coral and if not dosed properly then coral issues?

Personally keep up the water changes, even small amounts is better than nothing.

You could cut way down on your feeding. Your fish may have become lazy and stopped grazing on your rock because of the abundance of supplied food.

I have 120g with around 10 fish, I feed 4 times a week one brine shrimp cube. 4 of my fish are over 4 yrs old.

I don't think you realize just how much stuff is on your rocks for them to feed on. You are supplying them with a eco system of algae and pods and various other things but still adding an abundance of food. If you cut down to a once a day feeding you'd be able to cut down the time between water changes. I preform a water change about 1 every 6 weeks if i remember. just my 2 cents

Wow, if I can do the water change every 6 weeks, I won't complain doing this task :mrgreen:. I will try to feed the fish once a day and let see if I can control the algae problem.
Thanks everybody for all your help. You guys are awesome :biggrin::biggrin:

how often are you doing water changes ??

If you lived in your own poopy water would you appreciate some clean water every now and then :lol:

With corals there is really no way around water changes that I can think of.

You were absolutely right about that ! Never thought about poopy water :redface:

I do it every 2 weeks, but I will try to change the way I feed my fish from now on, let see what will happen.

Sounds like everything is being done right! I agree, you can probably cut down on the feedings. Using R/O water (if you dont already), may help with the algae as well.

I run bio-pellets with a deltec skimmer on my 52g tank, w/mangroves and macroalgae... I still get some algae, and though infrequent (every 2-8wks... yes thats a huge range), I still do waterchanges.

Cheers,

Chris

If people still get algae while using bio pellets, then I am glad that I was asking your advice before spending a couple hundred to set one up. Tonight was the first night after almost 10 years in this hobby, I didn't feed my fish. I have a couple of clown fish which I have had since they were very tiny babies 8 years ago. All my fish were begging for food and waiting right in front of the tank whenever they see me pass the tank tonight. My heart is really broken right now :cry: . I don't know how long I can handle it, I may have to choose to go back to doing water change every 2 weeks, and just learn how to live with those algae :twised: