Nita-Guard BIO-cubes. anyone have input

[Chris82]

anyone have personal experience or info on this product . JL Aquatics says its amazing.
thanks

[typezero]

From the people who i know that used it and the stores that used it, they say it works like a charm. Start slow and build your way up.

[mrhasan]

What I have read is that its simply biopellets but media bag friendly. If shouldn't overdo it ;)

[typezero]

I heard it does not lower your phosphates like biopellets do. Looking for confirmation!

[mrhasan]

I heard it does not lower your phosphates like biopellets do. Looking for confirmation!

Ummm...I might be wrong but biopellets don't lower phosphates much either. Many runs gfo alongside biopellets. But I might be totally wrong. Not standing on strong ground on this one :redface:

But there's this other "version" called bio-cube titanium which helps to lower phosphates too.

[typezero]

Last that i read of, its about 16 parts nitrate to 1 part phosphate that gets lowered. Even with that ratio, im using it very successfully to lower my nitrates and phosphates.

[mrhasan]

Last that i read of, its about 16 parts nitrate to 1 part phosphate that gets lowered. Even with that ratio, im using it very successfully to lower my nitrates and phosphates.

Yah it was about that. I guess these are cubes and hence not that effective in reducing phosphates like pearls (I guess phosphy bacteria like to do pew pew while hiding). Maybe that's why titanium version is so rough and porous. Phosphy are shy...like blue throat triggers :lol:

[typezero]

Lol or they are lazy!

[mrhasan]

Lol or they are lazy!

They must be like "yo mr. algae, can be please take care of these phosphates! I need a nap" and after the nap, "holy crap, you ate em all???"

[Proteus]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but are the cubes and bio pellets just a carbon source.
It would probably be benificial to dose MB7 or like product to help bring po4 and nitrates down

Using prodibio I cut out Gfo over a year ago

[mrhasan]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but are the cubes and bio pellets just a carbon source.
It would probably be benificial to dose MB7 or like product to help bring po4 and nitrates down

Using prodibio I cut out Gfo over a year ago

Yap. Hence the chance of feeding the wrong bacteria and have cyano bloom. But the cubes might have some other stuffs in it too because they seems to work extremely fast compared to pearls.

[Proteus]

Yap. Hence the chance of feeding the wrong bacteria and have cyano bloom. But the cubes might have some other stuffs in it too because they seems to work extremely fast compared to pearls.

Should write them a letter and get to the bottom of this :)

[typezero]

Yea i heard they can reduce a fish only system of 100+ ppm nitrates to 0 in a month or 2

[mrhasan]

Yea i heard they can reduce a fish only system of 100+ ppm nitrates to 0 in a month or 2

Yah that's kinda scary! Fishes be like "oyeee I can't poop any faster".

[Chris82]

thanks for the input!

[titus]

Hello

Out of curiosity what kind of skimmers and tank sizes do you all have here?


Titus

[Proteus]

Hello

Out of curiosity what kind of skimmers and tank sizes do you all have here?


Titus

Hey boss

Myself I run a 42g system with a nac7 skimmer

[Chris82]

130 rsm and a 65 gallon with eshops 100 skimmer.
Can someone enlighten/explain to me about the comments about cyano and the concern of feeding it if you run stuff like nitro guard?

I have 0 cyano or any aleage for that matter.

[mrhasan]

130 rsm and a 65 gallon with eshops 100 skimmer.
Can someone enlighten/explain to me about the comments about cyano and the concern of feeding it if you run stuff like nitro guard?

I have 0 cyano or any aleage for that matter.

Well bio cubes are food source for bacteria. Generally, what you want is to feed the right bacteria (denitrifying) but occasionally, the wrong bacteria starts eating and cyano breaks loose. It helps to dose the right bacteria too (like MB7) so that the right bacteria can outrun the wrong bacteria with the food.