USING BIO PELLETS

[Jackie]

Originally Posted by kien

I run rowaphos and carbon together in series along with running an insane amount of BioPellets

I am trying to do the same. I run two TLF 150 reactor in series with a MJ400.
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.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Jackie

I am trying to do the same. I run two TLF 150 reactor in series with a MJ400.
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.

Ya I found out very early on that BPs in TLF150 reactors don't work too well. If you like BPs and want to keep using them I highly recommend a better reactor. They do tend to clump if overfilled in the reactor. The reactor needs really good flow to tumble them. I'm currently using two vertex 20 reactors to run my pellets.

[Reefpins10]

This information helps me a lot

[Renegade]

interesting to note that it states combining with Phosban removers could have a negative effect on the pellets. Also no-tingly they mentioned frequent water changes could be a negative.

"Quote"
I have been running the pellets for several weeks and have yet to notice any results.
Cause – Assuming properly inoculation, the heterotrophic bacteria are not becoming properly
established within the system. This may be caused by the use of copper-based medications,
ozone, UV sterilizers, phosphate binding medias or extremely large and frequent water changes.
Solution – Remove any of these retardants to ensure that the medias are becoming properly
established.

[Funky_Fish14]

Just an FYI - Neither the bio-pellets nor the carbon 'leach' anything 'back into the water'. Anything the pellets do let go is what is being consumed by the bacteria. The carbon clogs after some time, and stays clogged, thats it.

Reefpins; i'll keep you updated on the pellets.

Cheers,

Chris

[ottoman]

Renegade, you will need to do more research. As I understand that phosphates and nitrate will be used up in a certain ratio (just for example 1 phosphates : 5 nitrate). So if your tank does not have nitrate, no phosphates will be consumed by bacteria. That's why people also run phosphate binding media. Same happens, if no phosphates, no nitrate will be consumed. I may be wrong too. Cheers.

[Funky_Fish14]

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