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Old 11-18-2011, 05:17 AM
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can you wash/rinse biopellets, mine got a bit grody after the reactor sat for a day idle. the water stunk can i just rinse out and reuse them, or turf them for new.
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Old 11-18-2011, 05:20 AM
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Give them a good rinse in some hot water and dump them back it. I have done this several times when my pump would stop & I didn't notice.
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If you're not sure you could always just run the reactor off a bucket of water for a day then dump the water and start it over on the tank..
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The produce methane when not tumbling. They farted......
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