Rice Reef's 120 SPS Reef Tank

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by kien

Nice. Ya, my biopellets ended up in the same scenario where they took forever to deplete, which kind of makes sense if your tank has super low nitrates (and phosphates). I do still like the simplicity of just leaving the pellets in the reactor and forgetting about them for a year as they do their thing and tumble away :-) That said, mine are struggling to tumble due to a faulty pump so I either get a new pump for the reactor or use one of my spare dosing pumps to dose vinegar instead. I suppose I could just do vinegar without the vodka. I've never done either but I've read up on both.

Your tank looks like it has all of two fish in it? I see a cardinal and a tang. Is that all you have in there??? :-)

You have a point there with the pellets... it's easy and if I don't have to constantly refill it, even better...I may just hook it back on. I would continue to use the pellets for a while longer while you introduce the the vodka and or vinegar while the tank is building up a new strain of bacteria that uses vinegar/vodka and not starving out the existing bacteria that may only feed on the pellets.

There are more fish in there... lots of leopards and a few fairy wrasses... they have all went to bed when I was taking the pics in the evening...