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05-05-2011, 02:14 AM
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Me neither. Although I have heard of a great many of positive results, running biopellets in my system caused more problems than it cured. I tried several different brands. Seems like they only work on certain systems. I wonder what the common thread is?
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05-05-2011, 02:17 AM
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Ive been running vertex biopellets in a TLF reactor for about 5-6 months. I cant say ive seen a positive or negative change.
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05-05-2011, 02:53 AM
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awesome, thanks guys. just switched to vertex-w-TLF over vodka 2 weeks ago.
In the short term it is looking promising, never have had the PE I'm getting now, color is intensifying, and glass cleaning has been cut in half. I'll stay on the positive side of the fence, but time will tell.
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05-05-2011, 04:55 AM
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I have the same feelings too
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05-05-2011, 06:19 AM
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Took my bio-pellets of line few eeks ago as well, did not work at all.
Had it in huge 6" wide reactor powered by main pump, so lots of tumbling lol. But at any rate this was a total waste just like ZEO method. So after a year and a half pellets are out of my system for good.
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05-05-2011, 04:22 PM
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The biggest problem with using them is that they are NOT used properly. Most reefers are tumbling them too aggressively.
Here is an old link to Grumpy Old Reefer, who explains things well: http://grumpyreefer.net/2010/02/08/n...-story-so-far/ I myself now use a water tank water bottle modified with a 700GPH pump that slightly tumbles them in the middle, while the surrounding pellets are slightly suspended with good water flow through them without tumbling. Every few days I do tumble all the pellets with my hand, and in doing this I can tell you that the mulm production is there and wow is it ever, even better than before when I ran a reactor (Vertex & Deltec). So this DIY reactor is the best. With the research I have done, most that are very successful, DO NOT use the common reactors like all of us are doing. They do what I now have.... A DIY Project, A Bucket with a pump and so forth. The KEY to all pellets is having substantial surface area for them and not going crazy on the tumbling. I myself now run about 5L of pellets in my DIY.
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