NP Bio Pellets -I'm intrigued!

[ramsey]

Yeah, it's still so new that I may just not be giving it enough time. I also might try slowing down the flow to the reactor. One thing I have noticed is cyano. I bought some MB 7 from Gabe yesterday and I've started adding it. I'm hoping that by adding the "good" bacteria, it will outcompete the cyano.

[Europhyllia]

the Zeozym has worked well for me against the initial cyano bloom.

To be fair about my perma-bloom. I can tell when my autofeeder runs out of my seafan food because teh cloud lifts (until I refill it) lol
But hey I pay lots of money for the Fauna Marin foods. I want my sponges, oysters and seafans to eat the good stuff - not the bacteria!

[neogenix]

I'm interested to see what happens when I add them to a new build... from what I've seen so far, everyone else has run them by switching a running system...

[Europhyllia]

I added them to my 125g but on this one (215g) I had them right from the start neo.

One thing I really did like was that I never had hair algae, not even during the new tank period. That was nice.

[Big_Pun]

i still run a couple of bags of chemi pure elite, my water is crystal clear. but gets a lil cloudy when i do a heavy feeding for the fish and coral but goes away in couple hours. my flow is very slow just enough to see the pellets turn over.

[ramsey]

i still run a couple of bags of chemi pure elite, my water is crystal clear. but gets a lil cloudy when i do a heavy feeding for the fish and coral but goes away in couple hours. my flow is very slow just enough to see the pellets turn over.

That's what I set mine to last night. The only problem I have with this is that there's a small section of pellets at the bottom that do not turn over. Maybe the bottom plate is clogged? I dunno. Other than that, I have them on a very slow tumble. I also slowed the return and drain on my tank way down. My filter socks were getting clogged in like 12-14 hours when I had mega flow going through there. I figure slowing the flow way down will give the skimmer more opportunities to collect excess bacteria and will stop the filter socks from being clogged so quickly and running over. We'll see. It's a new tank so I'm still trying to get everything tweaked.

[Big_Pun]

they might be clumping a lil since they are new open up reactor and clean it plates. I clean mine once a month just a quick clean of top plate and in slide the inner tube up and down to clean bottom and then pour off water in reactor.

[Europhyllia]

you might be able to shake em just a little. They'll get less sticky in time