biopellets and cyanobacteria

[BBQHILLBILLY]

I wanted to start this thread to share experiences with this topic.

I am happy with the pellet reactor because I have very low maintenance in my 7ft tank but have the cyanobacteria.
Been lazy with testing parameters and will begin to post my future results.

So what are your success and failures using pellets? lmk

I currently run (half full of pellets) SMR1 NEXTREEF reactor and feed the output to a REEF OCTOPUS Diablo Skimmer DC controllable.
Some zoas dont seem to like pellets but others do, and chalices and sps seem to be doing great with the pellets.
Im assuming phosphates are low but have not tested, yet.
It has been a month since I did a sw change and overfeed the tangs and other fish.

There is a small movement of pellets, but all of the pellets are moving.
So the trick for me will be to find the balance with pellets and bacteria to be successful.

[Reefnub]

I've found the the reactor I have now is controllable by a small margin so I ordered a reef dynamics pellets reactor which has its own pump to move the pellets and then a seperate valve on top to let the water out to the tank. So you control how much goes through reactor and in tank. So if I test water and want to get to 2 nit I could and hold it at 2 nit. I'll let you know how that works out. I would think that would cut back on the cyano.. I use pellets now and have good polyp extension and growth on sps and Lps are doing nice also.


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[ramsey]

I would test your phosphates. The bacteria that grows on the pellets is going to consume way more nitrate than phosphate. A lot of people using BPs run GFO as well.

[Reefnub]

I'm going to be running the new ecobak plus pellets that are suppose to eliminate Cyanobacteria and algae. But I will run the pellets and test phos to see if it drops it. I'm already running gfo but hope when I turn down the gfo reactor to let phos build a little to see what happens that it drops it some.


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[Reefnub]

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Finally it is here and time to get things rollen so I can see how these ecobak plus pellets do and if there will be less Cyanobacteria while running these pellets like advertised.


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[Dean]

Nice set up! Keep us updated please.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

wow Now thats a reactor

[Reefnub]

Thanks it's easy to use and set up and works as good as it looks. I'll let you know how these pellets do. Got it hooked up last night and took some existing pellets from my 65g to get the new pellets started.


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