Vertex Bio Pellets vs. NP Pellets what is the difference

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Originally Posted by chris121277

Thanks for that man, I've just read so many threads about people saying that there tanks were worse off when running only the Bio pellets, but at the same time I've seen a bunch that said there great as long as you run a phos remove like the BRS stuff.

You are the first to show me test results though, I appreciate that. Now I've heard some people saying they noticed a big difference in there corals.....have you noticed any such change?

Again, I think the same can be said about all the other methods as well. There are a bunch of people who say they tried zeo with poor results, or they tried vodka dosing with poor results, or their refugium gives them poor results. While at the same time there are tonnes of people who do use those methods and get great results

Did I notice a change with my corals? Yup. some of my corals certainly did respond by exhibiting lighter colours. Growth didn't really change though as phosphates were virtually zero in both cases (before and after pellets).

One thing I did notice with the pellets is that while they did great at stripping nitrates, they didn't perform so well with phosphates. I have no idea why. When I started using the pellets I took my GFO reactor off line because the pellets are supposed to strip N and P together. Well, I observed my phosphates climb from zero to 0.14 and hovered around there while just running the pellets. While I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over a phosphate reading of 0.14, I still did not like it so I put the GFO reactor back on line and once again have my phosphate reading at zero. So contrary to what is typically recommended with these pellets I do run GFO as a phosphate remover in conjunction with the pellets.