Biopellets and clumping sandbed/bacteria overload

[mediumrar3]

Im considering stopping my biopellet reactor because i believe it is what is causing my sand to clump up with bacteria (never had that problem before running one. Anyone have experience stopping a biopellet reactor? I dont want to take the tank cold turkey cause of the saying "only bad things happen fast in reef tanks".
Also, anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with the bacterial clumping of the sand and growing all over the rocks? I have a big peice of live rock that i put in post biopellet reactor start and it is brown and look slimey and coreline algae cant manage to grow on it. Any thoughts?

 

[mediumrar3]

bump

 

[Sawdonkey]

How long has it been running? Did you ramp up the amount slowly? It sounds like you added too much too quickly. Maybe cut the amount in half for a while but keep it running? Is the bloom goes away, ad the rear back in over a couple of months.

 

[GreshamH]

FWIW he isn't running the reactor effluent into the skimmer, but it is drained into the same compartment as the skimmer.

What's you alkalinity at? Research the connection between alk and biopellets.