You are welcome! Trust me, we are all excited to try these out......... have a good weekend!

ordered....will post results when I have some

The first batch of Biopellets are shipping out Monday, here is a quick picture of what the Pellets look like. They are smaller than I expected which means lots of surface area for bacteria colonization!:mrgreen:

http://www.oceaniccorals.com/store/i...biopellet2.JPG

http://www.oceaniccorals.com/store/i...biopellet1.JPG

For all those that are waiting for your biopellets!

The second batch of biopellets will be arriving tomorrow, we will be shipping them out asap!

Mine arrived today!! Heh heh, lentils !!! Yum, yum. :lol:

Tony:

Did you get the little chubby reactor with the pellets ? :lol:

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jptenklooster
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 25 Hello everybody,

I'm the person that developed the biopellets and to answer some questions:

-The pellets don't dissolve in water in the absence of bacteria

-they do not stimulate bacterial or algae growth in your tank and specially for the algae growth, this appears to be reduced and similar observations have been done for cyano bacteria when compaired to using soluble carbon sources such as wodka or sugar. big advantage is no more bacteria growth on your corals and unlimited carbon source to reduce nitrate and phosphate. My own tank consists of gorgonia combined with lps and sps corals. this requires feedings of 10x a day (with reefpearls ;-)) and I can keep nitrate between 0-5ppm and phosphate around 0-0.03 without the addition of wodka and phosphatekiller. this was for not possible before I started to use the biopellets.

-they are heavier than water and can be used in fluidized filter systems. we recommend this actually because this way you will always have high water flow and thus more aerobic conditions for your bacteria, which in principle is much safer than anaerobic conditions. On this point we have to say that some anaerobic bacteria will excist on the pellets, but this layer is so thin that is not harmfull and has a rather positive effect on your pH (aerobic-> H+; anaerobic -> OH-)

- the pellets are not on the market yet and will be released soon in the netherlands and belgium and other countries will hopefully soon folow. until that time you can contact me for questions at info@reefinterests.nl (I hope this allowed by admin, otherwise I apologize and please remove just this last sentence then).

-in contrast to what was mentioned, the pellets do not need to be replaced after 6 months. they are consumed by the bacteria and will slowly disappear, which means that you have to add extra pellets every 6-12 months. In one of our test conditions it took 3 years to completely digest the pellets. this is also the reason that you have to use at least 1 or 2 liters of these pellets (around 120 euro's) but it will last at least 1 year.

Wodka can still be combined with the pellets and will rapidly be consumed by the bacteria which live on the pellets, however, it is not necessary to do so, but when you need to finish the bottle of wodka, this is one way of doing it ;-)

Don't hesitate to ask any questions when things are not clear.

ciao,

jean paul

are the pellets compatable with zeovite products?

Rick,

People including myself are experimenting with this right now! Some people are adding or mixing in a small layer to their Zeo reactor with the Zeolites.

Ian

Hi Ian,
Do you have bio pellets in stock for local pick up?
thx.

I do have the pellets in stock but in very limited quantities, which size are you looking for?

Ian

Small bag
thank you

We have two of the 500g bags available as of today.

Good.
I have a friend that lives in Langley and i will ask him to pick up a small bag.

Thank you

Sounds great, please go ahead an order your bag through our website. Select pick-up as your shipping option.

We can control inventory much more efficiently this way until our retail store opens.

Cheers!

Ian

Hello Ian and all other Canreefers,

I want to bring your attention to the following thread:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=59332

Tony and myself (I bought 1L from him) are both using the NP Bio Pellets in our system, I just added mine today, with Tony probably a few days ago.

This thread is outlining what he is doing and his results, I will be also tagging along in this thread to record what happens to my system using this product.

Check it out and tag along, see what happens with us!

Rick

Excellent, glad you two are doing the product review, we are all excited to see the results!!

Ian

I would be interested in a small bag. When will you have stock?

I believe I have one last small bag left, I do also have another order due to arrive end of next week.

I am also very interested to try this and would like 2 of the large bags.
Please let me know an ETA, thanks.
Greg

Greg,

Sounds great! I am expecting my next order towards the end of this coming week.

Ian

Hey Ian, got a question for you. As you know, I received 1/2 my order of 1000ml of pellets. My question is: my tank and sump are aprox. 250 gallons which requires about 1000ml of pellets. Should I start with the 500ml, or wait until the other 500ml arrives? (I'll be running them in a Two Little Fishies reactor.)

Actually starting with the 500ml would be highly recommended, just like Zeo you want to start slow, this would be a great opportunity to do so, let me know how it goes!

The other pellets will be in later this week!

Thanks for your patience!

Ian

Kinda figured that. Thanks Ian.

I would really like to try these! is there a 500ml bag available on your next shipment?

Cheers
Ray

Yes there is, I will have them by middle of next week.

Wife got the pellet's yesterday, but I won't be able to start using them till the 20th. Will post updates then

The most recent shipment arriving this Monday or Tuesday is already pre sold, be sure to place your order to get on the list for the next order arriving in about 8-10 days.
:mrgreen:

I'm contemplating using this product. How many pellets would I need for a system that has about 400g of total water volume. Thanks Laurie

Good question, I would probably start with about 1000-1500ml of Pellets, you would also need to run a larger reactor for this volume of pellets. From all of the reading I have been doing it has become clear that it is pretty tough to overdose these pellets, supposedly they have a very large safety margin.

You would still want to start slow as to not shock your system. Our Nextreef MR1 XL would be a great reactor, also allowing room for expansion.

Thank-you for the info

Thanks Ian, just let me know when I should pay you so we can arrange shipping.
Thanks,
Greg

No problem Greg, I have a couple bags marked down for you. :biggrin:

Did the new order show up yet? I'm excited to see if it will help take care of my waving rocks of algae. If this stuff will clean up this tank it'll clean up anything.

The pellets have arrived, they are waiting to clear the border and should be shipped out this week! I am sure they will help your algae issues!

Awesome, look forward to my order arriving. This is my last resort, before tearing down the entire tank and starting over.

Biopellets are still in stock and ready to ship! Any other feedback from all of you that are using them would be great!

Got mine today, thanks guys.

I've built a really bad looking reactor out of an old skimmer for one tank, and the others are in a bag. Look forward to seeing what this stuff does for the tanks.

I'm curious.. What could the side effects be if one was to just dump a couple of 1000ml bags into their sump? Is it possible to overdose these pellets? They keep to themselves pretty much whereever you put them. Bacteria consumes them and releases mulm but I would think that the amount of pellet eating bacteria would be limited by the available nutrients (nitrates and phosphates). So, if you have more pellets than bactertia once you hit ultra low nutrients would the excess pellets just hang out until they are eventutally consumed? While not impacting your system ? Just curious and something that crossed my mind :-)