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Old 02-10-2010, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by pterfloth View Post
What long term experience is there with this product and SPS? They sound intriguing, but having invested heavily in SPS and recognizing their sensitivity to changes of any kind, I am hesitant to try them.

I already run zeolites with bacteria and a carbon source. How would you suggest implementing this product to my ULNS tank?
Personally, I can't really see that there would be an issue with SPS with what I've seen and read so far.

You would want to run the pellets in a separate reactor such as a Phosban reactor or similar, regardless of using Zeo or not. That was my key learning in my experiment in this thread: The pellets only work when fluidized and anything that interferes with that will reduce their effectiveness or defeat them altogether.

The real question though is if you run zeovit already, you may not really need to run the pellets as you should already have a tank with low nutrients. However to flip things around, I wonder how these pellets will affect sales of zeovit startups because they are easier to use, cheaper, less labour intensive, but still equally effective at reducing nutrients. The only thing I can think of to speak to that is that zeovit (and ultralith and etc etc) are not "just" about reducing nutrients so there is still value in those systems.
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