Warner Marine Now Has A Pellet Product
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Metals may not be an issue ; likely not inl your situation.
This article may be of interest:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-12/rhf/feature/index.php
Typically, aqauriums do well in teh 300 to 450mv range. The controller is usually set between 400 and 450 when ozone is applied.
Personally,I'd continue the gfo and gac.
If you're set on removing the gfo , running the gac downstream from the pellets may lead to bacteria clogging the the gac quickly. On the other hand it might prove to be a very effective way to insure their removal and limit the amount of bacteria and the organic products of their activity flowing into the tank.
All in all running a separate reactor for the pellets gives you the ability to control the flow to each media used separately which can be very desireable as well as simplifying media change out.
hey Bill! glad it's working out for you. I am seeing good things on my end too at 1.5 weeks. I am at .03 PH4 and waiting to go undetectable before pulling GFO off-line, although I think it is already exhausted anyways.
So would 4PPB be .04 on a hanna?
poolkeeper1
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Phosphorus meter
Phosphorus meter
No the Phosphate meter is PPM The Phosphorus Meter is PPB If my math is correct 4ppb is 0.012 ppm or equal to around 3x the reading in ppb to ppm
Very low is all i know LOL
Bill
Phosphorus meter
No the Phosphate meter is PPM The Phosphorus Meter is PPB If my math is correct 4ppb is 0.012 ppm or equal to around 3x the reading in ppb to ppm
Very low is all i know LOL
Bill
jsdancer
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Nope nothing yet. I had a bit of cyano that has actually gotten better.
How's your doing? Any change in your corals?
jsdancer
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I will test later today, but was at a LFS and they tested but used API test kit there and their tests stated 0 phosphates and 0 nitrates but plan to use my salifert kits.
As for corals anything that was rtn'ing has stopped. All other corals DEFINTITELY have more color. My tri-colors are showing three colors, my garf is finally showing the blue tips.
buy_baff
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I didn't stop useing GFO tell the 10 week mark. You should keep running it for a while IMO.
Tigé21v
Active member
I'm glad to see the positive results people are having with EB. So far, I'm still on the outside looking in. Maybe someone can give me a suggestion what I should try next.
90 gallon heavily stocked display, 300ish total water volume, running an ATI BM250 w Red Demon pinwheels.
I was in the dosing VV prior to the EB switch. Although I had been dosing for a few months, I still had not reached my maintenance dose. NO3 was hanging in the 20's (Salifert), PO4 was around .07 (Hanna).
I've been running the EB for two months now. I'm running 2 liters (well, 1.75 liters- my ziplock baggie from WM was light) in a 4" reactor, right at 200 gph flow. I had the reactor's return next to one of the skimmer's pumps.
Five weeks in, growth was up a little, colors had improved somewhat, and my cyano had decreased slightly. However, my numbers had not changed.
A little out of curiosity, mostly out of frustration, I dusted off the ol' ASM G3 w recirc mod. The G3 is fed solely from the EB reactor, skimming wet, and the G3's return goes into the skimmer section of the sump.
After three weeks of running like this, NO3 is still in the mid-20's, and PO4
has increased from .07 to .10
Open to suggestions. Throw another liter of EB into the reactor? Decrease flow? Both??
I'm a definite believer in this product, I just cannot seem to get it dialed in for my system.
BTW, has anyone experienced any unexplainable livestock loss since starting to run EB? My ORA birdsnest, which had gone from 3-2" twigs to a 7" bush in a little over a year, RTNed in a matter of a couple of days. I was able to save only a 1" piece.
90 gallon heavily stocked display, 300ish total water volume, running an ATI BM250 w Red Demon pinwheels.
I was in the dosing VV prior to the EB switch. Although I had been dosing for a few months, I still had not reached my maintenance dose. NO3 was hanging in the 20's (Salifert), PO4 was around .07 (Hanna).
I've been running the EB for two months now. I'm running 2 liters (well, 1.75 liters- my ziplock baggie from WM was light) in a 4" reactor, right at 200 gph flow. I had the reactor's return next to one of the skimmer's pumps.
Five weeks in, growth was up a little, colors had improved somewhat, and my cyano had decreased slightly. However, my numbers had not changed.
A little out of curiosity, mostly out of frustration, I dusted off the ol' ASM G3 w recirc mod. The G3 is fed solely from the EB reactor, skimming wet, and the G3's return goes into the skimmer section of the sump.
After three weeks of running like this, NO3 is still in the mid-20's, and PO4
has increased from .07 to .10
Open to suggestions. Throw another liter of EB into the reactor? Decrease flow? Both??
I'm a definite believer in this product, I just cannot seem to get it dialed in for my system.
BTW, has anyone experienced any unexplainable livestock loss since starting to run EB? My ORA birdsnest, which had gone from 3-2" twigs to a 7" bush in a little over a year, RTNed in a matter of a couple of days. I was able to save only a 1" piece.
poolkeeper1
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IME The amount of EB may well need to be based on Bio load not sheer water volume. That being said i raised my quantity of EB over the 500ml per 100gal level by about 50%.
Like you i have a very heavy bio load and were not seeing a drop in Po4 until i increased my EB then started to see the Po4 get lower and lower. I use the Hanna phosphorus meter that measures in PPB and I'm getting #'s ranging from 2-4 PPB Which is below 0.012 PPM at the Max without running and Po4 removal resin. My No3 is at 0 per Salifert.
water is as clean as i want to get it and my SPS color is amazing.
As far as losing any Coral that may just be a fluke, But i would also check for Critters like red bugs or flatworms, I know But it can happen to anyone if you have added any new coral lately.
One last thing is it seemed to take a long time to get where the EB was doing the job but it did get to the point where i would not take it out!
Bill
Like you i have a very heavy bio load and were not seeing a drop in Po4 until i increased my EB then started to see the Po4 get lower and lower. I use the Hanna phosphorus meter that measures in PPB and I'm getting #'s ranging from 2-4 PPB Which is below 0.012 PPM at the Max without running and Po4 removal resin. My No3 is at 0 per Salifert.
water is as clean as i want to get it and my SPS color is amazing.
As far as losing any Coral that may just be a fluke, But i would also check for Critters like red bugs or flatworms, I know But it can happen to anyone if you have added any new coral lately.
One last thing is it seemed to take a long time to get where the EB was doing the job but it did get to the point where i would not take it out!
Bill
Tigé21v
Active member
Anyone else have similar experiences with decreased flow?
poolkeeper1
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Slower Flow
Slower Flow
That's Interesting, May try that and see if i get the same results.
Bill:beer:
Slower Flow
That's Interesting, May try that and see if i get the same results.
Bill:beer:
Buganddoug
X NJRC Vice President
I would decreased flow till you see the pellets tumble very slowly. If you feed to much water through it you might be washing the bacteria of of them.
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