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08-23-2012, 08:49 PM
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Make sure you soak your pellets in ro water, the day before you add them. I added a 1/4 cup each week until I got up to a full cup.
You also have to modify the tlf reactor with a screen at the top and I cut off the bottom piece to allow more flow from the mj1200. If you don't modify it, the pellets will float up and out and clump together and create a chemical poison. Took me almost 2 months of mucking around, to get things to work right. I had the pellets keep clumping until I snapped the bottom off the reactor. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2 
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08-25-2012, 06:56 PM
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Also be prepared for cyano issues at the start. Some people get away with it, but you'll find literally hundreds of threads on the web in which people got cyano explosions shortly after starting the pellets. It looks like cyanobacteria can also metabolize the carbon polymer that gets sloughed off the pelllets as they tumble and makes it in to the water column, so if you're going to run pellets it's strongly recommended to routinely dose a probiotic supplement to help out compete the cyano.
When I added pellets to my old 90 gallon (that had been running for a year), my whole tank was a thick carpet of cyano the next week. This time I added them right at the beginning and haven't had too many issues.
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08-27-2012, 03:41 AM
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ok, i will start very slow, its a 65 gal with 20 gal sump. i know they need to tumble slowly,so they dont stick.. but i was told to add micro bacteria.
my nitrates get between 25-35 ppm, i love feeding the fish alot and my corals... where should i have the hoses running too ?? from left side of sump into reactor, then reactor to right side of sump ???
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