Great growth! I love that green ball one on the last page (im not great with the proper names!!)
Thanks...I call it a moon brain...I think it's a favia...I'm not good with the names either.
Great growth! I love that green ball one on the last page (im not great with the proper names!!)
Steve. Tank is stunning. Amazing growth and color. I'm looking at starting biopellet reactor on my 75 mixed reef. I've got my nitrates to 2ppm and my phos to 0.08ppm but just can't seen to clear them any further. I've cut feelings back, increased flow, increased my wc schedule etc but I still have lingering hair algae and bryopsis. When I run gfo my lps pout and my phos still goes nowhere. I know your a fan. What media are you using, how much per gallon etc? Trying to get some insight from some with a success story.
Thanks Tom
Yes, they seem happy.
OK here you go:
If you use super glue gel,you can put some on the frag and then hold it to the rock under water and after a little bit it will be glued.
Any kind of super glue gel will work. I use the ecotech CG it sets a little faster for me.
There is about 225 lbs of rock in there.
When you put the 2 objects together twist them some, to break the skin and it should hold.
I run a mix of the bio pellets, I think there are about 4 different brands in there. I fill the reactor about 1/3 full, which allows room for a good tumble and keeps them from staying at the top of the reactor. As far as I know there is no amount per gallon formula, and from my understanding I can't see any reason for one...the bacteria will consume what's needed, so extra just mean you have to open the reactor to replenish less frequently.
The pellets need a balance of nitrates and phosphates and a carbon source. The pellets provide the carbon, and you have trates and phates already. Many times with an established tank, I hear that one drops (usually trates) to 0.00 but the other (usually phates) drop some but not to 0.00. When that happens the system is...what is refered to as "limited" either "nitrate limited" meaning not enough nitrates, and phosphates won't drop, or "phosphate limited" and nitrates won't drop any further. This is the only glitch that I know of with using the bio pellets. This can be taken care of and a balance can be achieved very easily but it's a rather radical approach, and some folks can't do it. To give you an idea the first tank I used the bio pellets on I became nitrate limited and phosphates would not drop yet nitrates were 0.00. After some research I came up with the radical idea, of actually adding nitrates to the tank...after some slow careful dosing I got them into balance and the pellets kept it all at 0,.00 from then on.
Keep in mind, you will still see some algae. The algae will fight with the bacteria for the nutrients and some will survive, but you won't have the free nutrients in the system for the algae to grow out of control. I manually remove the algae about once a month and it keeps at bay.