BioPellets

[Ntvper]

tested again after me pulling everything out and letting it settle. all 0s. so I assume its all bound up in the decaying or living cyano and left over algae. forgot to mention some green algae on back glass dieing that i cleaned up tanks looks beautiful cept the rock encrusted cyano and with tests all 0's im totally confused again.

 

[Ntvper]

on another note i just realized i havent seen my wrasse since my anemone died and i cleaned the tank and rocks............

 

[Ntvper]

now im just talking to myself.......but so now i realize i am down a fish, havent seen his body, he is decomposing somewhere in my tank and dammit i dont see an ammonia spike okay im gonna throw every test kit i have out the door.

 

[Ntvper]

wow no hair algae, missed a few spots on cleaning up the cyano gonna tackle today no new growth on that neither. still missing wrasse poor poor fishy. looks like its coming along nicely, bio pellets moving like their suppose to tests still at 0 still gonna look into buying the more expensive tests ( i should just go digital ) but all is alive and fat.

 

[Ntvper]

its clearing up on its own now, siphoned more of the cyano out yesterday and no new growth this morning. its clearing up it looks like and the spots on the sand are actually shrinking. I am believing this stuff works. gotta find the camera to take the pic of the rock to show ya guys. Ill do that when I come home from work

 

[Ntvper]

yup

is it effecting your macro algae at all? i lost my chaeto but i have some fern like macro growing like nuts now though. didnt buy it so dont know what it is.

 

[dsepp]

is it effecting your macro algae at all? i lost my chaeto but i have some fern like macro growing like nuts now though. didnt buy it so dont know what it is.

Fern like macro might be feather caulerpa or bryopsis.

 

[paul_111]

is it effecting your macro algae at all? i lost my chaeto but i have some fern like macro growing like nuts now though. didnt buy it so dont know what it is.

Yes, the ball has gotten quite a bit smaller. I don't think the cyano is still spreading -- it may even be reducing a bit, but I'll have to take picts and compare.

Paul

 

[Ntvper]

gotta find my camera to take a pic of the rock in the first thread to show its much better now and absolutely no hair algae the cyano is going i suck it up soon as i see it and most the time its already dieing off

 

[Ntvper]

so heres a picture of the fern like stuff growing in the refugium i was talking about. any ideas what it is? I do like it and want it to live when i have more i want to add it to the landscape of the DT that be awesome.

 

[Ntvper]

And here is the rock well date is stamped on the thread so I do believe Bio pellets help.
No hair algae to speak of and cyano gone. all that is left is the dead stuff waiting to be eaten by snails or sucked up by me this coming saturday.

 

[dsepp]

Looks like feather caulerpa to me. It is what I have growing in my fuge. I would suggest avoiding it in the DT. It can take over pretty quick if you don't keep up with it.

so heres a picture of the fern like stuff growing in the refugium i was talking about. any ideas what it is? I do like it and want it to live when i have more i want to add it to the landscape of the DT that be awesome.

 

[paul_111]

My cyano bloom has significantly subsided! It's not completely gone, but it was looking pretty ugly for a bit, there.

I'm still dosing a few drops of zeo bak ~2 times/week. I'm trying to remember to ramp up feeding as well... I'm still using ~125ml bio pellets, which is about the max that will fit in my reactor.

I question how happy my leathers are these days, tho. Perhaps the water's too clean for them now, but the mushrooms are fine, and the sps are showing good (and different) colors.

Paul

 

[Gomer]

My reef is looking like a lawn. I think I might need to go the BP route. I'll probably tee off my return with a valve to supply reactor flow.

 

[Ntvper]

My reef is looking like a lawn. I think I might need to go the BP route. I'll probably tee off my return with a valve to supply reactor flow.

interesting....may i suggest a gate valve for total control of flow vs a ball valve.

 

[Gomer]

I already have a ball valve and technically, I have two in series if I want to (one on the reactor) to fine tune it. I know that gates are much better for fine tunning,but this is a no cost trial :-D (Already have the BRS deluxe reactor that I used to use for GFO/GAC. Just need to get the biopellet cartridge)

 

[Ntvper]

i just took out the sponges and used the slotted thingies works great btw. and there is a side note on using biopellets with the GFO some say remove the GFO for the biopellets to work some say remove slowly over time so no GFO with bio pellets so basic concept is that GFO hinders Biopellets productivity. but you can research that and make your own decision.

 

[Ntvper]

bummer it all crashed today when i came home......
Just kidding just a minor algae trying to bloom on the front glass. scrape scrape scrape viola gone.

 

[Brian DeGolier]

Has anyone noticed their turbo snails falling over, not able to right themselves up and dieing since starting biopellets? Just one of few side effects that I've noticed when starting pellets about a month ago. My battle with cynobacter-mated with algae is coming to a close after using the pellets.

 

[Ntvper]

Has anyone noticed their turbo snails falling over, not able to right themselves up and dieing since starting biopellets? Just one of few side effects that I've noticed when starting pellets about a month ago. My battle with cynobacter-mated with algae is coming to a close after using the pellets.

nope not with the snails. though ive had snails do that before biopellets just fall off glass or rock and not right themselves and die for no apparent reason. possibly starvation, change in salinity too drastic, tempature to high or fluctuates to rapidly.