Is it OK to dose Vodka and run an UV ?

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by Casey8

I only feed the fish twice a day with a mix of mysis, brine shrimp and pellets. Very little but I make sure everybody have a little share of it, nothing left over after 1 minute. I rinse the frozen food very well but still get nitrate and phosphate, don't know where I get it from

There poop

[Cal_stir]

Originally Posted by Casey8

I know I feed my fish too much but I don't like to torture them either, I want them to be able to fully enjoy their life in my small tank. Phosphate and nitrate are the reason I need to do something about it. I had tried bio pellets for 6 months and it had wiped out more than 3/4 of my sps corals from bleaching them. I have been dosing Vodka for about a month now and I am watching it very carefully to see if anything goes wrong with my coral. But so far so good, they are all coloring up more nice than before. If bio pellets is the only way that I can set up an UV again because it holds bacteria in the reactor like Cal_stir said, then maybe I have to try it one more time with those "scary" pellets.

recirculating biopellet reactors are entering the market,Reefdynamics is making one, I have built one and have just got it up and running, you can control how much aquarium water goes thru it and thus prevent total stripping of nutrients from the water.

[phi delt reefer]

Originally Posted by Cal_stir

recirculating biopellet reactors are entering the market,Reefdynamics is making one, I have built one and have just got it up and running, you can control how much aquarium water goes thru it and thus prevent total stripping of nutrients from the water.

cal can you post some pics of the unit. i was looking at building one from a broken phosban reactor.

[Cal_stir]

i used a vertex UF15 and a maxijet 1800, i had previously glued the hose barbs in so i had to use hoses, i think a nextreef MR1 or SMR1 would be a good reactor for a build. heres some pics, the blue tubing on the right is water being drawn from the sump, the red tube out the top is water returning to the sump directed at the inlet of my skimmer