White bio pellets

Bowhunter4250

Bowhunter4250

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Has anyone tried or using these bio pellets in a reactor to reduce no3 ? If so opinions , how well have they worked ? Thinking of using these when i set up my new tank

thanks
 
I was gonna give them to ya if u needed
Them
I personally won't use them
Heard bad stories that they can crash your tank
 
They work well, almost too well in most cases. Definitely not something to be played around with as they can quickly strip the water of too much nutrients and cause corals to suffer. If you do go with them for nutrient control be sure to have a very good skimmer and only use a fraction of the recommended amount VERY slowly adding just a little at a time once a month or so, but in my experience even on a large tank and overfed, I probably only needed half the recommended amount. Good luck if you try them out.
 
I'm using the dr. Tim's natural bio pellets. I personally like it and it working for me. 0 nitrates. It did take awhile for it to kick in and had a cyano outbreak that lasted 2 weeks. If you decided to try it... Do your research and take it slow.
 
FishBeard said:
They work well, almost too well in most cases. Definitely not something to be played around with as they can quickly strip the water of too much nutrients and cause corals to suffer. If you do go with them for nutrient control be sure to have a very good skimmer and only use a fraction of the recommended amount VERY slowly adding just a little at a time once a month or so, but in my experience even on a large tank and overfed, I probably only needed half the recommended amount. Good luck if you try them out.
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Thanks for the advise , what would you recomend for po3 control ?
 
First of all I would not use them in new tank unless it is cycled and has been running for a while. Get a good reactor that is designed for bio pellets so you get decent tumble. Make sure you have very efficient skimmer as it is very important. Direct output from bio pellet reactor into input of your skimmer.Start slowly with about third of recommended dosage and monitor your parameters. If after few weeks your PO4 and NO3 are close to zero, leave it as is, if still to high add more pellets to about of half of recommended dosage. This should be enough. As your nutrients start to be reduced you will need to increase feeding your fish and corals. Otherwise you'll strip water so clean that your corals might RTN and STN. Keep your Alk close to natural salt water levels around 7-7.5dKH. If too high you will experience tip burns of your SPS. Now decide if this is really for you and that your system needs it. If you have low or normal stocking level in your tank more traditional system with good skimming,refugum and carbon and GFO might be better. If you want to keep high number of fish ( overstock ) your tank ,give bio pellets try, as it will be very hard to keep parameters in check the traditional way so many fish. Good luck.
 
MMreef said:
First of all I would not use them in new tank unless it is cycled and has been running for a while. Get a good reactor that is designed for bio pellets so you get decent tumble. Make sure you have very efficient skimmer as it is very important. Direct output from bio pellet reactor into input of your skimmer.Start slowly with about third of recommended dosage and monitor your parameters. If after few weeks your PO4 and NO3 are close to zero, leave it as is, if still to high add more pellets to about of half of recommended dosage. This should be enough. As your nutrients start to be reduced you will need to increase feeding your fish and corals. Otherwise you'll strip water so clean that your corals might RTN and STN. Keep your Alk close to natural salt water levels around 7-7.5dKH. If too high you will experience tip burns of your SPS. Now decide if this is really for you and that your system needs it. If you have low or normal stocking level in your tank more traditional system with good skimming,refugum and carbon and GFO might be better. If you want to keep high number of fish ( overstock ) your tank ,give bio pellets try, as it will be very hard to keep parameters in check the traditional way so many fish. Good luck.
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Thanks man !! i really appreciate it
 
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