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![]() Ok not funny, the pic of the inner chamber didn't load when I first read the post
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![]() Here's how I see it. It's probably the same bacteria that colonizes the zeolites as well as the pellets. The pellets are really more of a direct replacement for vokda dosing, which is a sort of "halfway to zeo" method. Vodka dosing is adding a carbon source so that bacteria can consume the carbon and the "side effect" is reduction of nitrate and phosphate, but it involves daily dosing. Supposedly the best vodka dosing is a mixture of vodka and then occasional vinegar and occasional sugar as well; the problem is none of those come with "reef tank dosing instructions." These pellets are a passive carbon source so it eliminates the need for daily dosing of carbon (via vodka or whatever). So if your only goal was nitrate (and/or phosphate) reduction, you should theoretically be able to run these pellets on their own. So this begs the question, why am I doing both these and zeo? And the answer is something I don't really have firm grip on. Both methods intrigue me; so why not try both? But one reason I can enumerate is the water clarity you get with zeo. Zeo tanks never fail to amaze me for their water clarity, you can pick out a zeovit tank at a glance for their water clarity. The colours pop more too if you have SPS, but I don't, so I can't really say that it makes my corals colour up more, but I dig the water clarity. So (I wonder how many paragraphs in a row I can type in that start off with "So"), I hope to see a "best of both worlds" in this approach. Hope this makes sense. ![]() Quote:
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![]() Tony Thanks! and keep up the Good Work
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![]() I just picked up a 1 litre bag from Tony. I have placed 500ml in my zeolite reactor with 1 litre of zeolites. I have my reactor running on a 3 hour interval and I mix the reactor twice daily.
As I am running 100% Zeo, and Tony is running some Zeo also, I will post with him on what I see. Is this ok with you Tony, as we can keep this in one thread then? For me I don't have any issues, but want to see what kind of results I will see with color colorization and growth. I will keep you posted.
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![]() Really excited to see how these work out, I will keep tuned but thanks for spending the time and writing this up Tony (Guess there's a reason they selected you to mod
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![]() Could not hold any longer and picked up a 500 ml bag of bio pellets today. I don't like testing and dosing thats why i decided to try this new product. Like was mentioned before these pellets are promising and make a lot of sense, no dosing is a definite plus. At any rate , i just simply placed it in TLF media reactor, the flow is whatever it is from MJ 1200 power head. I do keep SPS and i do have some nuisance algae so that means i have both P04 and N03. I do Not dose anything (well sometimes magnesium, strontium and occasional kalkwasser) and there is no change in my tank other then pellets. I will contribute what i can to this new product research |
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Basically exactly the same for me. No real SPS, a Birdsnest, Digitata and Acro. Only the Digitata is ok, but brown. Lots of Hair algae, fingers bleed trying to prune. Hope the pellets will work. Should be here this week
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![]() So the pellets do release a lot of mulm as per the manufacturer's claims. It's quite noticeable after a reactor pumping. I'll see if I can capture this on picture or video. Might be a bit tricky on account of the (lack of) lighting under the stand but I'll give it a go!
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