Vertex Bio Pellets vs. NP Pellets what is the difference

[kien]

Originally Posted by chris121277

Don't mean to hi-jack your thread.....but I wanted to know, out of everyone here who is now running these type of pellets......did you see a noticeable difference from before you starting running them to after?


I guess what I'm getting at is it worth buying another reactor and running 3? (1 carbon, 1 phos remover and 1 bio pellet)

Did I see a different from before the pellets to now? Yes.

Before running the pellets I had a refugium going with chaeto and my nitrates hovered around 8ppm.

Two weeks after running pellets.


4 weeks after running pellets. "Lo" means undetectable



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These pellets are a form of nutrient export and we all know that there are a crap load of ways to export nutrients from our tanks (Refugium with macro alage, zeoVit, mangroves, Vodka, sugar, massive skimming, water changes, bioPellets, etc..).

If you currently do not have ANY form of nutrient export, I think any of the above listed method will work more or less the same (depending on how you implement the methods). There are beautiful tanks out there that just rely on water changes, awesome tanks with just refugiums, awesome tanks running zeoVit, awesome tanks running mangroves, awesome tanks running bioPellets.

As to whether or not it is worth it to run three reactors? I think so yes. In fact I run 4 reactors. Two for biopellets, one for carbon and one for a small amount of GFO. I personally find running biopellets to be the easiest of all the methods. Drop in some pellets, turn on the reactor, tumble away. Top up pellets every few months.

Anyway, that's my experience and opinion There are still reports of many people trying bioPellets with poor results, but the same can be said with all the other methods as well
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