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Well, as expected my display tank water is cloudy after 1 day of having the pellets tumble better. The pellets didn't tumble very well for the first couple of days.
I plan to tabulate all my readings and results later in the beta testing using Excel to make it easier to see any changes in Nitrates & Phosphates.
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Woke up this morning & the display tank was noticeably clearer.
Now, at 7:37pm, the tank water is almost completely clear again. Very happy about this development.
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It happens sometimes. Some people never experienced any cloudiness, others did. I did but my bioload is very high for a full blown reef.
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My current system is 450G. I have been using ZEOvit for the last 2 + years.
I decided to go off the ZEOvit system last October mainly because of its cost. Since the end of January my tank has experienced a number of issues. I decided to use NP BioPellets to control both nitrates and phosphates in my system as one of the problems since discontinuing ZEOvit was a breakout of algae. On April 10 I added 1000 ml of NP pellets, I wanted to ramp up the use of BioPellets over a 3 month period. I decided to convert my 3 liter ZEOvit reactor into a fluidized pallet reactor. I added a mesh mode to the upper and lower lids of the ZEOvit reactor. My ZEOvit reactor uses a Sedra KSP2500 pump and with 1000 ml of pellets about 2/3 of the pellets would tumble. The Sedra 2500 was not strong enough to tumble all of the pellets in the 6 inch wide reactor. On May the 25 I added another 550 ml of the original pallets. The Sedra 2500 was unable to tumble the pellets at this point. As I had a Mag 7 sitting on the shelf, I swapped out the Sedra 2500 for the Mag 7. This now tumbled the pellets very well. Today I added another 625 ml of the new smaller pellets to the reactor and they are tumbling very nicely. As I have been experiencing a Cyno outbreak since introducing the pellets I have been dosing 45 ml of Brightwells MB7 a week and this is slowly reducing the Cyno Bacteria in my tanks. To dose the MB7 I shut off both the Pellet reactor and my Skimmer. I then add 45 ml of the MB7 to the Pellet reactor and stir it up. I then let the Pellet reactor sit for a couple of hours with the pellets covered in a mix of water and the 45 ml of MB7. I then turn on the pellet reactor and about 6 hours later I turn on the skimmer. Since starting the NP Pellets I have see an improvement in my tanks overall condition. I will update this thread as time goes on with my tanks improvement. Tom R Last edited by Tom R; 06-01-2010 at 01:31 AM.
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