Vertex Pro Bio Pellets
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bmwaaron, I am also running this pellets. I did get a bacterial bloom after a few days and it lasted about 3 days. My system was at 5-10 nitrates and 0.1 phosphates when i started. After 5 days using this product both went to zero. I would recommend trying to run the output of your reactor thru your skimmer is possible. I did this and seems to be going good so far. Also looking at your reactor those pellets building up at the top need to be moved down or removed they all need to be tumbling from i have been told. I believe the none tumbling pellets are what cause the bacterial blooms since i found a few just sitting in my sump from when the pump to reactor started up. I removed them and the bacterial bloom was gone soon after. So good luck and keep us posted with your success.
bmwaaron
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I have the output of the reactor going to the protein skimmer. Also the picture I took was from when the pellets were first put in the reactor so there was a section that was floating for an hour or 2 but now all the pellets are moving in the reactor.
soulsigma
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Did you add the entire package of pellets @ once or did you start with a small amount and build up to the required dose for your system?
seem that everyone is coming out with this things but with no real research or experience with them well at least in the long run some of them contradict them self in alot of their adds just a little worried bc im like alot of ppl are using them lets just hope that we have done a good choice in using them.
bmwaaron
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I actually started all at once since I have very low P04 and Nitrate. If these were higher and I wasnt switching from a bacterial system already I would have dont about half.
bmwaaron
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I cant answer the first part of your question since I have only been running them 1 day but I can say from the pictures I have seen of EcoBak thats what they look like.
reef_doug
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For GPH it really depends on the reactor diameter, inlet and outlet size. Apparently 5/8" inlet and 5/8" outlet works best. I'm trying to modify a ZEOvit reactor that's 8" diameter with 5/8" inlet and 1-1/4" outlet. 300-600 GPH is not uncommon though.
This is where I found them for sale with a nice reactor as well: http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/aloha-tropics/80101-introducting-vertex-pro-biopellets.html . The jury is still out for me in regard to running these on my sps tank. As others have stated, very little research and little time on the market concerns me a bit. To that end, I am very curious to try and may begin soon.
Hoyden
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I have some on order and look forward to trying it. I will be using an Avast Marine MR-5 reactor which seemed like a lower cost alternative to the Vertex.
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