Focus on Prodibio The breakdown.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jordsyke

I am currently running an ULNS and was wondering if any of these products could help with the bacteria growth / production. I have read through them and beleive BioDigest does this? but I want to be sure

If you are already ulns then you don't need to boost your bacteria population only maintain it , in which case you'd want bioptim assuming it's carbon source equals your bacteria needs. If your truely deprived of nutrients than your already carbon dosing if not then your just low nutrients In which case you'd use both. But then I don't see the point of switching if what your doing is working unless you want to push it further and then I'd ask the question why? If your already ulns then continue on with your routine and incorporate reefbooster or other coral foods.

What do you do now to maintain ulns and define ulns?

[reefwars]

This would be only relative assuming your not using prodibio at all at the moment.

[jordsyke]

Ok I phrased it all wrong. I am sedtup for an ULNS as I have biopellets w/ output into one of my skimmers and dose a small amount of vinegar every aswell through a doser. I still have .1 Phos and around 5-10 Nitrates. I find when my notrates get that high corals don't pop as much as they normally do. I would like to boost my carbon sources output if that is possible. BioDigest??

[jordsyke]

FOrgot ot say that biopellets have been runnnig for 6+ months and vinegar for around 1.5months

[Aqua-Digital]

Not a fan of bio pellets, but that being said

The carbon source of Prodibio is BioPtim.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Aqua-Digital

Not a fan of bio pellets, but that being said

The carbon source of Prodibio is BioPtim.

Neither am I , they work great at removing no3 but from a control point of view and logging point of view they are all over the place and hard to predict.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by reefwars

Neither am I , they work great at removing no3 but from a control point of view and logging point of view they are all over the place and hard to predict.

A new version of bio-pellet is out to take care of that (called all-in-one BP) :P

Anyways, I don't know why you are using two different source of carbons (bio-pellet + vinegar). Eventually, someone will start feeding cyano if I am not wrong. Use a carbon source (biopellet/vinegar/bioptim) and a bacteria source (mb7/biodigest). And I prefer to follow one program instead of mixing different ones. If you want to use prodibio, go full prodibio; if you want to use biopellets, cut off the vinegar and use mb7.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jordsyke

Ok I phrased it all wrong. I am sedtup for an ULNS as I have biopellets w/ output into one of my skimmers and dose a small amount of vinegar every aswell through a doser. I still have .1 Phos and around 5-10 Nitrates. I find when my notrates get that high corals don't pop as much as they normally do. I would like to boost my carbon sources output if that is possible. BioDigest??

Sure you can add tht if you wish , if after 6mths your not getting low enough no3 with pellets and vinegar then threes something a miss.

How many mls are you adding daily and how much pellets are in the reactor?

What size skimmer do yo use and what size system.

If it we me I would ditch the pellets and either go the full prodibio route or supplement your existing bcteria source with another carbon source.

Unfortunately with any system if you over feed , done have adequate size equipment or misuse the products then they will not work properly.

With no3 at 5ppm I would lower my po4 with gfo while slowly adding more vinegar , the risk is the pellets as we don't know what they re doing at this time, so because of the uncertainty of what the pellets are doing at the moment I would proceed slowly or remove them , in the grand scheme of things it's not efficient to run all these methods nor is it cost wise and can run into serious risks that are hard to recover form.