NP Biopellets

[Uncle Salty 05]

How many folks out there are using these?
Are you impressed by their effectiveness?
Would you recommend them?

 

[Yogre]

There's a HUGE thread over in the Reef Chem forum about these things, at one point it was thread of the month.

They haven't worked for me, but I think most folks have had good luck with them.

Thread name is NP biopellets, or solid vodka dosing.

 

[poolkeeper1]

Go with the Warner Marine Eco-Bak Pellets as they are working better than the NP ones. I have personal experiance with these and they work as advertised.
Bill

 

[Uncle Salty 05]

There's a HUGE thread over in the Reef Chem forum about these things, at one point it was thread of the month.

They haven't worked for me, but I think most folks have had good luck with them.

Thread name is NP biopellets, or solid vodka dosing.

Thanks.
Yeah, I saw that thread but I am looking for more up to date experiences with them like poolkeeper's.

 

[Yogre]

My recent experience with the pellets: I've been running the original NP biopellet formula for 6 months now. At this point they should need replacing, but they're unchanged so they're not working for me.

I had a terrible hair algae problem but no nitrate or phosphorus detectable in the water column. The algae was probably too efficient a competitor for the nutrients. I've since resorted to vinegar dosing with fair success. Defeats the purpose of the biopellets though.

I will probably try the Warner Marine Ecobak before I give up on the idea. I've just been too lazy to take the NP pets out of the reactor.

 

[Uncle Salty 05]

So the biopellets did nothing for you HA problem?

 

[Yogre]

So the biopellets did nothing for you HA problem?

No, they sure didn't. I tried removing my gfo for a while to see if that would allow the pellets to "activate" and the hair algae went wild. Thick growth all over every rock in the tank. This, while feeding so sparingly my anthias were literally starving to death. I thought I was going to have to take the tank down and cook the rock. Dosing vinegar has basically saved my tank.

Lots of people have had good results with these pellets, unfortunately I'm not one of them.