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rfoote 
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Posted: July 04 2011 at 11:01am |
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Anyone use these? Experience/Opinions? Thanks!
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Posted: July 04 2011 at 12:55pm |
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I run the Warner Marine pellets and I think I am going to remove them. I have a red slime problem right now and I am wondering if they are the problem, not sure though. I haven't noticed an pro's to running them though so I think I am going to remove them.
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 11:28am |
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Tyler - how long have you been running them for?
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 12:01pm |
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I was running ecobak. I pulled it out as it was actually harming my tank more then helping. I started getting hair algae where I've never had it before in my tank, my bubble algae problem exploded. The pellets were constantly sticking together and not tumbling. My skimmer was easily large enough to handle it so I'm not sure what happened. I'm not the only person to experience this either. There are a ton of people on the internet that have had the same problem.
On the plus side I will say that my water was crystal clear. I mean really really clear.
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None at the moment
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 12:08pm |
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I have been running them for about 8 months
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 12:26pm |
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Thanks for the info! That is interesting it would cause a bloom. Why do you think it did?
Is their claim it will remove both N03 and P04?
Tyler - your running ecobak too right?
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 12:27pm |
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I've heard that it may just be an ecobak problem/a problem with a specific batch that was made. I may try again later but at this point I get better results just running Phosban and a refuge.
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 12:59pm |
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Yes I am using ecobak.
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 1:31pm |
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I ran pellets for 3+ months and it was all good. Then I started getting a lot of algea and then literally over night I lost 5 big colonies of Sps and a dozen or so Frags. I forget the brand I was using but they came from avast.
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 3:03pm |
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I ran the Ecobak for about 5 months and started to lose some SPS and completely lost my ORA Red Planet that was growing like crazy. I removed them and am now using Rowaphos and carbon and have had 0 problems. I would not personally suggest them, but I believe I do have a small amount of the pellets left that I would be more than happy to give away of course at "your own risk".
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Posted: July 06 2011 at 9:00pm |
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like to hear more on this if anyone else has anything else to say?
Im still having the problem with hair algae and I run bio pallets too.
I have about 1000ml in my reactor right now.
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Posted: July 07 2011 at 3:52pm |
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Have any of you ran ac in a reactor along with the bio pellets?
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Posted: July 09 2011 at 12:18pm |
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I run the brs version and also had red slime and hair algae issues. Found out the red slime was from feading too much and the hair algae was too long of a photo period. All problems solved I can honestly say that I think I might have a couple crabs and maybe a snail or two, 70 gal cube, but the algae that usually builds up on my glass only needs to be cleaned once a week. I run a big carbon reactor from tcfab and flow a lot of water through it. I also tumble the hell out of the pellets too. Did everyone that had problems start your pellets with bacter vital kinda stuff and slowly add the correct amout of pellets at a time? Ive been running my pellets for almost a year now. Dont get me wrong Im still on the fence about the pellets but I can honestly say it beats phosban for sure.
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Posted: July 09 2011 at 1:07pm |
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I run my T-5s for 8 hours a day and my MHs for 2 hours a day, So I don't think my photo period is a problem for the algae. I drop photo period on my MHs about 2 months ago because Im trying to stop the aglae from growing.
We will see if the bio-pellets were the problem because now the pellets are in the trash.
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Posted: July 09 2011 at 1:51pm |
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How was the preoblem before the pellets? If you trash the pellets you should run phosban at least! whats your cleaning crew like? I have a lawnmower blenny that is a algae eating fool too.
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Posted: July 09 2011 at 1:53pm |
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I think I met you at Bird World talking with Doug?! We were talking about our algae problems then, its been awhile! Are you the guy thats into zoas and palys too? Maybe Im wrong?!.
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Posted: July 09 2011 at 2:19pm |
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Nope I think I only been to bird world once a lot time ago
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Posted: July 11 2011 at 7:50pm |
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I have just started using the Two Fishes brand of these. After 1 month in my display I have had aprox 10ppm drop in nitrate, a noticable differance in coral color, increased water clarity, and decrease in algea growth. I am so far sold on the product however I have not used them long enough to decide. I am trying these in a few other tanks as well.
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Posted: July 11 2011 at 8:16pm |
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Bruce, are you using gfo and gac as well? What about uv?
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Posted: July 11 2011 at 8:47pm |
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This is on my keep it simple tank. It is a 46 gallon bow front. The only filtration is a hob skimmer. The pellets are in the final chamber of the skimmer.
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