Lionfish77
New member
Hi everyone.
I guess I probably should start with why I'm going to use biopellets. I do 25 gallon water changes every couple days on my tank to keep the nitrates from 3 to 5 ppm. I feed every other day and turn off my power heads and only put a little bit out and let the fish eat it and none of it hits the sand or strays off. My bioload is very heavy in fish and I do have some corals. I do believe that nitrate removing devices and bacteria are a bandaid but i pay 80 dollars in Salt every couple weeks and I just can't keep up with the tank. I tried a aquaripure denitrator and it never worked. The water coming out would have 0 nitrates for a couple days and made my house smell awful and I followed everything the owner told me to do. But my tank nitrates never changed. It was a Really expensive piece of junk.
Current filtration
90 gallons
Eshopps r300
Coralife UV sterilizer
Phosban reactor w/ GFO(fairly new)
Eshopps s120 skimmer
And I throw in some active carbon
I picked out the octopus biochurn 120r and I'll be using a old sicce skimmer pump that'll I'll split between the phosban reactor and pellet reactor. I'll be using the recommended biosphere pellets. I will also be either gluing a t or elbow to the intake of my skimmer and I will feed to the out take straight to the intake of the skimmer.
I'll update soon with build pictures and water chemistry once I get everything in and I build it all in. I'm also dosing for light cyano in the tank right now as I want to make sure there is absolutely none before I hook up the reactor.
I guess I probably should start with why I'm going to use biopellets. I do 25 gallon water changes every couple days on my tank to keep the nitrates from 3 to 5 ppm. I feed every other day and turn off my power heads and only put a little bit out and let the fish eat it and none of it hits the sand or strays off. My bioload is very heavy in fish and I do have some corals. I do believe that nitrate removing devices and bacteria are a bandaid but i pay 80 dollars in Salt every couple weeks and I just can't keep up with the tank. I tried a aquaripure denitrator and it never worked. The water coming out would have 0 nitrates for a couple days and made my house smell awful and I followed everything the owner told me to do. But my tank nitrates never changed. It was a Really expensive piece of junk.
Current filtration
90 gallons
Eshopps r300
Coralife UV sterilizer
Phosban reactor w/ GFO(fairly new)
Eshopps s120 skimmer
And I throw in some active carbon
I picked out the octopus biochurn 120r and I'll be using a old sicce skimmer pump that'll I'll split between the phosban reactor and pellet reactor. I'll be using the recommended biosphere pellets. I will also be either gluing a t or elbow to the intake of my skimmer and I will feed to the out take straight to the intake of the skimmer.
I'll update soon with build pictures and water chemistry once I get everything in and I build it all in. I'm also dosing for light cyano in the tank right now as I want to make sure there is absolutely none before I hook up the reactor.
