N/P reducing pellets (solid vodka dosing)

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jmoney said:
800ml would not fit in the reactor, I just filled mine up today and 500 Ml fit with just a little bit of room to spare, I had to take out the top sponge to make sure it would fit, and even though i lost a few pellets on the start up its still pretty full
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do you put it in both canisters or just one? r u running maxijet or bigger pump?
 
solos2 said:
I've posted part of this idea on another thread and posting it here to spark further discussion of this idea of mine.

I'm currently using 300ml of NPBP in my system, but NPBP aren't the best bacteria housing media, simply because bacteria can only colonize the surface area and I don't think the pellets are that porous.

And unlike vodka dosing, most of the bacteria should only colonize the surface of the pellets as it's where they'll get their food.

So in order to boost the bacteria housing capabilities of the NPBP, I propose of using another media that's more porous than the pellets, in this case, I proposed the use of sugar grain sized coral sand.

The reason why I chose this media is because of the grow of carbon source utilizing bacteria is very fast, in the ZEOvit system, users need to pump the ZEOvit reactor everyday to dislodge some bacteria so that it won't clog up all the surface area of the zeolite media.

In the case of NPBP, the addition of coral sand to the NPBP reactor will probably allow a greater number of bacteria to be housed in the reactor, similar to the black-n-white ball denitrators.

However we may still have the similar problem that zeolite had - bacteria growth clogging all the surface area of the media. In the case of coral sand inside a NPBP reactor, the constant movement may help to dislodge some bacteria, furthermore, it may be possible that the bacteria could alter the local environment such that the pH is lowered and thus the coral sand may slowly dissolve. Eventually more coral sand will need to be added to the reactor, and this will eliminate the need to use a zeolite reactor for the daily pumps.

So to test my theory, I just added some 50-100g of fine grain coral sand into my reactor, it may boost the bacteria housing capability of my NPBP reactor by a few folds, who knows ;p
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-Sounds intresting solos 2 , keep us informed about your findings :) .
Althought i don`t have any problems with clogging , it sounds very logical what you explaind .
I`m especialy intrested in the part that the lowered Ph could dissolve the fine grain coral sand and so providing some alk and Ca to the system as well .
But due to high flow (400 g/h) in my reactor i think i would go for slightly larger grain.


greetingzz tntneon :)
 
coffeenut said:
do you put it in both canisters or just one? r u running maxijet or bigger pump?
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I have the deluxe, so it is just one of the standard canisters, and 500ml of the pellets almost went to the top, I run it on a Mj1200 and it is on full blast to get proper agitation of the biopellets, maybe 20 little pellets came out during the first few minutes, now everything is in perfect agitation.
 
I just added 500ml of pellets in a NextReef canister to a 150 gallon system last week, the output was directed in the general area of the return pump. In the last two days I have seen my 25 micron filter socks in my sump clog up in anywhere from 12 to 24 hours.There is no visible sign of anything other than a slightly yellow discoloration. Normally it takes days and the socks are visibly dirty.

Has anyone else experienced this? Total guess here but could bacteria be clogging the socks? I switched to some old 100 micron socks and redirected the output to the skimmer to see if it makes a difference.
 
jmoney said:
I have the deluxe, so it is just one of the standard canisters, and 500ml of the pellets almost went to the top, I run it on a Mj1200 and it is on full blast to get proper agitation of the biopellets, maybe 20 little pellets came out during the first few minutes, now everything is in perfect agitation.
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are you running in the first chamber or 2nd? what (if anything) are you running inthe other chamber?
 
There is no first OR second chamber in mine, I'm simply telling you that 800ml wont fit in just one chamber, I run a two other deluxes, one full of gfo and the other full of carbon, but none that are plumbed together
 
jmoney said:
There is no first OR second chamber in mine, I'm simply telling you that 800ml wont fit in just one chamber, I run a two other deluxes, one full of gfo and the other full of carbon, but none that are plumbed together
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I have this same setup, we need a double deluxe BRS reactor for the pellets!
 
I have 2 duels and am running 1st chamber in both with 3/4 full gfo, and the 2nd chamber is 3/4 of the pellets (500 grams each chamber)
 
just an update, after 24hours im starting to see polyps in some of my sps that I've never seen before, I wouldn't call it incredible yet, but also my algae is starting to turn grey at the tips
 
Hi guys,
I have been using the pellets for about 7 weeks now with good results. Just a question though ,does anybody use Zeozyme with this product or know if its alright to use ?
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So has anyone noticed their Phosphate dropping when Nitrate was already at 0 prior to the addition of the media? Seems like most info is set up, but not results.
 
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