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It's got a screen of that plastic needle point stuff and 2 layers of Enkamat that seems to work pretty well and not plug up. But how much flow do you need to tumble this stuff? There's an Eheim 1048 on it now that just barely wakes it up.
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All of the Pellets should be churning and moving in the reactor, more flow the better. My pellets are turning and flowing around my reactor with heavy flow. Pellets that are just tumbling on the top is not enough flow. |
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However, some of the fish go nuts over it, in particular my lavender tang seems to love it. Quote:
I replaced the top foam of the reactor with a single layer of Enkamat. It seems to stop at least 99% of the escapees. If I didn't already have the Enkamat I would have sliced the foam in half like Kien did with his. Quote:
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![]() Looks like the pellets work great for reducing nutrients, and safer than carbon dosing. I'm wondering if there's any use for this in a system that already has low nutrients.
I know it produces bacteria that provides food for corals, but won't live rock be doing essentially the same thing? Bacteria-plankton should be sloughing off the rock in the same manner, it's just not as obvious. Still on the fence... but this looks very interesting. |
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![]() What are you guys using on the TLF reactors to get these thing tumbling? MJ1200?
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![]() I've just T'd off my Sump return. A Little Giant 4
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![]() I use a maxijet 900 on mine and they tumble. I did have to mod the sponges though (cut them down very thin like enkmat).
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Absolutely there is use for these in an already low nutrient system, I can now feed more and more often resulting in even happier fatter fish. The beautiful part of the pellets is that they are only used up based on the amount of nutrients in the system to sustain the bacteria. If the nutrients are low the pellets will deplete very slowly and the bacteria populations will be smaller. |
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MJ1200 is what I am using and works perfectly. |
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![]() Crap, I threw my foam out. It was nasty LOL.
Anyone have a little chunk of Enkmat?
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