Bio pellets

[Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)]

This will be a thing for ppl starting bio pellets..question is what do we do and need...like we got the reactor and pellets..so how do we go at it?...how much pellets amd do we soak them ?...b4 adding into the reactor ?.

 

[Salty Cracker]

Re: Question of the day

Soak what you're going to use overnight in saltwater, then add to the reactor.  Not too much for the first week, just observe and go from there.

 

[reeffreak]

Question of the day

I don't think it matters if they soak in saltwater or just plain rodi water. If the container they come in says to use 100 ml for the size tank you have start out with a quarter of what they suggest to use then over the next few weeks like salty mentioned just keep an eye on things and ad more as you go .

 

[Thmh]

you can soak it in either water, the soaking is more of an insurance for the biopellet to sick and tumble well. also you should add the biopellets slowly until you hit your sweet spot.

 

[jones02]

What's the best pellets to use in a already established tank?

 

[reeffreak]

Ecobak pellets are the kind I used jones, some store on here hooked them up to his frag system and had no negative effects hookin up 500ml all together on one shot. I think mostly everyone uses the brs pellets

 

[jones02]

Ya I was going to order some other stuff from brs so I wasn't sure if there good or if I should go with somethin else.

 

[Darryl_V]

BRS pellets here too.  They are made from PHA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxyalkanoates  which is becoming the most commonly used bio-polymer for this function.  EcoBak may be the same PHA material.

 

[Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)]

Brs here   

 

[reeffreak]

From my understanding the ecobak pellets are a little different then the brs ones. They are my porous and there a bit bigger then the brs pellets. Imbot really sure how much of a difference that makes or if it does at all.

 

[Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)]

I forgot i have a tub of rhowa phos at home never been opened.  It came with the mr1 reacator

 

[reeffreak]

I'll take it Peter

 

[reeffreak]

If that's what your getting at lol

 

[Thmh]

i use the vertex biopellet! fun fact i always soak my biopellets but just recently i gave some of my biopellet to a friend and he said it sink right without being presoak :O

p.s peter can you move to toronto, it seems like you always have something someone needs laying around !

 

[Neopimp]

he has  PAR meter too.

 

[jones02]

U guys running pellets add new live bactiria to. ur tanks every so often? I been reading lots of ppl do that?

 

[copperkills]

I'm going to be run Ecobak....from what I have read they do not release bacteria into the WC which is why they do not need to tumble vigorously like other np pellets....Warner Marine claims that system crashes will not occur with the Ecobak product.

 

[Salty Cracker]

I'm going to be run Ecobak....from what I have read they do not release bacteria into the WC which is why they do not need to tumble vigorously like other np pellets....Warner Marine claims that system crashes will not occur with the Ecobak product.

They should put that in all their advertising... "system crashes will not occur with our product".  If you get a system crash, do they warranty against your losses?

 

[pulpfiction1]

Re: Re: Bio pellets

U guys running pellets add new live bactiria to. ur tanks every so often? I been reading lots of ppl do that?

No,never

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[jones02]

i just added another 1/4 dose of pellets today and i have 2 clumps of about 5-8 pellets stuck together, should i open up the reactor and break them up or will they come apart on there own or just make a big problem?