Bio pellets

Amadod2 · #1 03-19-2013, 06:31 AM

so im in the process of building my tank setup and come across positive and negative things about bio pellets, im just wondering what are peoples experiences and do you guys use them with other media? im trying to establish a stable tank

kien · #2 03-19-2013, 06:19 PM

this might help.

as might this.

Amadod2 · #3 03-19-2013, 06:40 PM

wow theres a lot of mixed reviews

kien · #4 03-19-2013, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Amadod2

wow theres a lot of mixed reviews

yup. Welcome to marine aquaria!

globaldesigns · #5 03-19-2013, 08:20 PM

I was one of the first in calgary to use with Delphinus/Tony... Removed at some point to issues, not with the pellets, just overall. But can tell you that I am running them again.

I can tell you this, first time use, had no algae, when I removed, had algae build up, and had to clean glass daily. With them back in Algae develoment is almost gone, and I clean the glass every 3-4 days, sometimes longer.

For those that ask, why I discontinued the first time. I had major SPS death with RTN. I removed as I thought just maybe it was the pellets, but eventually figured out it was the Kent Carbon I was using.

So I am using Vertex carbon, biopellets with GFO with success so far. GFO and pellets have been running together for about 4 months now.

kien · #6 03-19-2013, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by globaldesigns

I was one of the first in calgary to use with Delphinus/Tony... Removed at some point to issues, not with the pellets, just overall. But can tell you that I am running them again.

I can tell you this, first time use, had no algae, when I removed, had algae build up, and had to clean glass daily. With them back in Algae develoment is almost gone, and I clean the glass every 3-4 days, sometimes longer.

For those that ask, why I discontinued the first time. I had major SPS death with RTN. I removed as I thought just maybe it was the pellets, but eventually figured out it was the Kent Carbon I was using.

So I am using Vertex carbon, biopellets with GFO with success so far. GFO and pellets have been running together for about 4 months now.

Interesting, I thought you jumped to prodibio ?

thmh · #7 08-22-2013, 01:33 PM

I use biopellets and love it! Honestly I think that is one of the important factor that's allowing my tank to succeed :-) P. S getting to the sweet spot is the only hard part after that it's very low maintenance.

~Tony

Tn23 · #8 08-22-2013, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by thmh

I use biopellets and love it! Honestly I think that is one of the important factor that's allowing my tank to succeed :-) P. S getting to the sweet spot is the only hard part after that it's very low maintenance.

~Tony

How do you get it to the sweet spot?

thmh · #9 08-22-2013, 02:45 PM

Totally forgot! I too run gfo to fine tune everything :-)

~Tony

Amadod2 · #10 08-22-2013, 02:51 PM

Right now I have some alge problems, my tank is only a month old, I don't know what my phosphates are at and I don't use ro water, actually I have never used ro water on my other tanks. I'm just trying to figure out what would be a good setup for my tank, a bio pellet reactor with gfo such as rowaphos??