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02-03-2010, 07:41 PM
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Looks like the pellets work great for reducing nutrients, and safer than carbon dosing. I'm wondering if there's any use for this in a system that already has low nutrients.
I know it produces bacteria that provides food for corals, but won't live rock be doing essentially the same thing? Bacteria-plankton should be sloughing off the rock in the same manner, it's just not as obvious. Still on the fence... but this looks very interesting. 
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02-03-2010, 07:43 PM
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What are you guys using on the TLF reactors to get these thing tumbling? MJ1200?
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02-03-2010, 07:48 PM
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02-03-2010, 07:58 PM
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I use a maxijet 900 on mine and they tumble. I did have to mod the sponges though (cut them down very thin like enkmat).
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02-03-2010, 08:11 PM
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MJ1200 is what I am using and works perfectly.
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02-03-2010, 08:18 PM
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Crap, I threw my foam out. It was nasty LOL.
Anyone have a little chunk of Enkmat?
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02-03-2010, 08:19 PM
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I can mail you some Dan, PM me your address and I'll toss a bit in an envelope. What are you running it in, a phosban reactor (just so I know to give you a big enough piece - what I have leftover are just tiny scraps).
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02-03-2010, 09:51 PM
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OK Tony, Enough already!!!
Because of your results, I have now dug out my Deltec Fluidizer and moved the NP BioPellets into there with a maxi-jet 1200. Then leaving the Zeolites alone in the reactor. I am sure glad I didn't sell that with everything else I got rid of. All is now setup. I am just kidding, keep it up! Thanks for the testing. For everyone else who doesn't know, I had the pellets in a carbon bag ontop of the zeolites in the reactor. Since moving them, as per Tony, the zeolites are easy to mix manually and the biopellets are continually mixing in a fluidizer. I hope I see the results Tony is seeing, I will let everyone know. Rick
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02-04-2010, 12:53 AM
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Im running mine for 2 weeks in a TLF reactor at the moment. Until I read this thread today I was only using a MJ400 and had little flow and the pellets were all clumped together with no tumbling at all
 Just threw on a MJ1200 and now they are rolling like dice! looks cool to boot lol Ill update if I notice and changes with my system. Lately Ive been fighting cyano since I upgraded my lighting system.
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02-03-2010, 08:08 PM
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Absolutely there is use for these in an already low nutrient system, I can now feed more and more often resulting in even happier fatter fish. The beautiful part of the pellets is that they are only used up based on the amount of nutrients in the system to sustain the bacteria. If the nutrients are low the pellets will deplete very slowly and the bacteria populations will be smaller.
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