1. What result do you hope the pellets will help you achieve? prevent or reduce high nutrient levels due to frequent feeding as well as provide bacterial plankton as a food source
  2. What results have the pellets achieved so far? nutrient levels did stay very low however the bacterial plankton did not appear to be a foodsource
  3. How long have you been running pellets? overall since Feb 2009, on newest reef since July 2010
  4. Have you noticed any other positive side effects? no hair algae! Not even during the early days of the tank.
  5. Have you noticed any other negative side effects? Frequent and persistent bacterial blooms due to my frequent feeding of filter foods; ricordea and zoas not fully opening. Since no hair algae was present, cyano seemed to bloom at some point but disappeared with ZeoZym application
  6. Did you anticipate everything that happened presumably due to the solid vodka dosing method? no I did not realize that I couldn't do the constant feed thing with pellets. In fact I started using the pellets with the intent to be able to feed a bunch
  7. Will you continue to use this method in its original form? no
  8. Will you continue to use this method in a modified form? I considered using a modified approach with a UV Sterilizer (usually a 'no' with this method) but found that the pellets were much less effective in that case
  9. What brand(s) have you been or are you using? NP BioPellets -the original and the 2nd generation, BRS Bio Pellets
  10. Any thoughts/comments you'd like to add I think it's still a great approach probably especially for SPS keepers or others that don't feed as continuously small particle food. I no longer believe in it offering much in terms of bacterial plankton or at least bacterial plankton my critters like to eat. I think for the type of corals I like to keep other ways of reducing N&P might be more compatible