Bio Pellets, To Soon To Increase The Amount?

[The Grizz]

Maybe 50 ml now and another 50 ml in 2 weeks....

[e46er]

Your more than likely at about 90 gal of water volume

I would say after 4 weeks your good to add more ..... But if your
Nitrates are Undectsble why do you feel you need to add more?

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by e46er

But if your
Nitrates are Undectsble why do you feel you need to add more?

I have a bit of some form of turf algae on some of my rocks and I get a fuzzy green algae on my glass.....so I suspect that I have some phosphates.....now I say undetectable on the trates, but the test kit I have is so hard to tell the bottom end of the scale there could be a small amount.

The other reason I wanted to run pellets is from my understanding they produce food that your corals will consume...and well I was hoping it might help enhance my SPS colors.

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Maybe 50 ml now and another 50 ml in 2 weeks....

did you add any booster's when you started on pellets?

It's Greg isn't it? what ratio of pellets to gal are you running now?

[Reef Pilot]

I have been using MB7, and dosed it heavily at start up with my Vertex bio pellets. I think the MB7 helps avoid some of the other problems that I have heard of.

I have a Vertx UF20 reactor and started off with about 100ml (100g DT), for 1st month or so. Didn't do anything to my tank so doubled it then. Was running 500ml after 3 months, and that's when I really noticed a difference in my tank. I filled my reactor to near the top (remainder of 1000ml bag) after about 4 months.

It really cleared my tank of algae, and never had any cyano problems. I think the MB7 really helped make the bio pellets work, with all the beneficial bacteria.