Bio pellets are peeling and clumpy

[kien]

Can you show a picture of how full the reactor is? Maybe it's as simple as reducing the volume o pellets that you have in the reactor. This will allow you to push more flow through it. I found that with the TLF 150s it was very easy to overload it with pellets.

[reef93]

I have no camera but I can tell you what I did. With that reactor I put 1000ml bio pellets from Vertex for my 75 gallon tank. They were doing fine untill the last few days I had noticed they had all become clumpy like cake and the mulm started peeling off a lot. I didn't know what was it and scared that it would kill my tank.

[kien]

Personally I think 1000mL is way too much for that reactor to handle. I struggled with running 500mL when I tried using the TLF150. Somewhere from 250 to 400mL I think is more reasonable for that reactor.

[reef93]

Really ... let's see in a few days, if it happens again I will take half of them out. Hummm, I thought I was putting the right amount.

[kien]

You may be putting the right amount for your tank but that doesn't mean that little reactor can handle that capacity :-(

[kien]

Also, are you using the foam pads still or did you replace them with something else?

[lastlight]

Hey what do people here think about running bio-pellets? Do they work?

[reef93]

Originally Posted by kien

Also, are you using the foam pads still or did you replace them with something else?

I threw away those foam pads but I didn't replace them with anything else.