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03-03-2011, 05:37 AM
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If people still get algae while using bio pellets, then I am glad that I was asking your advice before spending a couple hundred to set one up. Tonight was the first night after almost 10 years in this hobby, I didn't feed my fish. I have a couple of clown fish which I have had since they were very tiny babies 8 years ago. All my fish were begging for food and waiting right in front of the tank whenever they see me pass the tank tonight. My heart is really broken right now
 . I don't know how long I can handle it, I may have to choose to go back to doing water change every 2 weeks, and just learn how to live with those algae  
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03-03-2011, 11:48 AM
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I cant say my maintenance habbits are terrific... but even with Zeovit, prodibio, etc... You are still going to get minute amounts of algae! I've seen a significant increase in my skimmer's production since starting bio-pellets (only a few weeks though), and algae does not grow nearly as quickly. Most people find bio-pellets worth it. Im liking my results so far.
*** you do have to make sure you go about it slowly... otherwise (if you dump in your full amount right away) you end up with algae outbreaks.
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No more tanks  - Laying off the ReefCrack for awhile!Cheers, Chris Last edited by Funky_Fish14; 03-04-2011 at 10:29 AM.
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03-03-2011, 05:00 PM
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Hey Chris, please keep me updated on how your system with bio pellets is going, I might try to put those pellets in the old Phosban reactor. As you said, I have been reading some people have a problem with algae outbreak in their tank after using them. That makes me hesitate a bit to do it, but I really want to find out if it helps for reducing water change.
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03-03-2011, 06:34 PM
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is anyone running Carbon and Rowaphos in conjunction ? My large tub of rowa is about to run out, and i was debating trying the bio-pellets. I have 3 Media chambers i could run all there with the hope that because of the Bio-Pellets if would make the Rowa Last Much, much longer. possibly get 4 months out of it.
Thinking maybe, Bio-Pellets, Carbon to pick up anything the pellet leach back into the water, and then Rowa phos to remove the phosphate that carbon leaches back into the water? Thoughts? I currently run Carbon, Then Rowa in sequence. Thoughts?
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03-03-2011, 06:42 PM
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I have been doing some research lately and as far as I know, you can not use Rowaphos and bio pellets together, but you can use carbon. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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03-03-2011, 07:00 PM
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All of you were right there is no way to avoid doing water changing.
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03-03-2011, 07:52 PM
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how it affects them i do not know but there is not a CAN NOT to runing rowaphos with the pellets. battling the algae's myself and i run some rowaphos and carbon with the pellets. Tried it without for a while and was still having cyano <still do occasionaly> so i started the rawaphos back up and it slowed it down a little bit more. cannot say i have ever had a phosphate reading that i can read on regular range phosphate tests though.
My alagee problems are down to one rock so I am wondering how heavily that rock is loaded with crap.
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03-03-2011, 08:15 PM
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03-03-2011, 08:30 PM
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But I found out bio pellet stick together in the second reactor. And the water inside the reactor won't drop after I turn off the pump. So water everywhere when I want to change the media. 
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03-03-2011, 08:58 PM
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