Warner Marine Now Has A Pellet Product

I'm still seeing only positive things and the only product i'm running other than some Chemipure Elite is the Eco-Bak, I took out the Phosguard when i added the E-B and have kept all other routines the same with no changes to effect the results of the E-B being added to the system. Hopefully this will give me a true insight to it's capabilities of controlling No3 and Po4 without any negative side effects. Watching closely as the time goes by for any sign of improvement from my current conditions in the tank.
Bill
 
Interesting. My dad was just mentioning these to me yesterday. Of course I just got the BRS Dual Chamber reactor and a big old canister of their GFO. It might be redundant, but I might try running these pellets with the GFO. Might as well... got another 4 lbs to run through.
 
snarkes said:
Interesting. My dad was just mentioning these to me yesterday. Of course I just got the BRS Dual Chamber reactor and a big old canister of their GFO. It might be redundant, but I might try running these pellets with the GFO. Might as well... got another 4 lbs to run through.
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PO4 removal will be necessary with pellets, if one is feeding fish and/or inverts. If nothing else it will make pellets last longer. If NO3 starts going up and PO4 is flat, remove GFO.
 
Do you think i should remove the Chemipure, As i feel this is a good product and is mostly carbon with a small bit of GFO?
Bill

No. But when you asses the effect of the pellets on PO4 you have to factor in the gfo the effect of gfo used.
 
I took my GFO out and wanted to see what my system would come to with the pellets. I only feed 1 cube of mysis a day and can rinse that if need be. I want to not use GFO at all but we shall see. So far so good.
 
IMO these pellits deffinetly leach a carbon source into the water. I first set mine up and ran them for about 2 weeks or so and got a bloom on the bottum of my tank and the bottum of my fuge. The reacter is in my fuge section and you could see the same algae bloom in the out side tube of the reactor. So I took them off line for about a week and it started to clear up quite a bit. Then thursday I put them back on line and when I did my skimmer went crazy for about 5 min. And suprise suprise 2 days later and the bloom is way worse.
 
buy_baff said:
IMO these pellits deffinetly leach a carbon source into the water. I first set mine up and ran them for about 2 weeks or so and got a bloom on the bottum of my tank and the bottum of my fuge. The reacter is in my fuge section and you could see the same algae bloom in the out side tube of the reactor. So I took them off line for about a week and it started to clear up quite a bit. Then thursday I put them back on line and when I did my skimmer went crazy for about 5 min. And suprise suprise 2 days later and the bloom is way worse.
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Is this possibly a cyanobacterial bloom you are seeing instead of regular green micro-algae?
 
Thanks for the reply. I have been trying to track any cyano problems associated with using the new solid carbon polymers for nitrate reduction. :)
 
Overpriced

Overpriced

bertoni said:
The main problem with Chemi-Pure and the Elite version is that they are a bit overpriced, IMO.
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Show me anything in this hobby that's not a little overpriced!
I also have seen a little what looks like a Diatom outbreak on parts of my sand bed but nothing real serious. My glass is staying clean much longer than it used to and overall the colors are still very good, Plus polyp extension is very good on all my SPS. Mine has been running for almost two weeks and so far so good, Most important thing is Nothing Bad either...
Bill:fun2:
 
poolkeeper1 said:
Show me anything in this hobby that's not a little overpriced!
I also have seen a little what looks like a Diatom outbreak on parts of my sand bed but nothing real serious. My glass is staying clean much longer than it used to and overall the colors are still very good, Plus polyp extension is very good on all my SPS. Mine has been running for almost two weeks and so far so good, Most important thing is Nothing Bad either...
Bill:fun2:
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I agree everything in this hobby is over priced. But I think that if these work like there supose to the price isn't bad at all. I don't know if my bloom is diatoms or cayno It is brown but I have seen cayno start like that to. Eather way I hope that when the population of bactera is at full tilt in the reactor things will even out.
 
Well one interesting development...

For a while I had some white type stuff on the glass in my sump... then noticed it in the tank under all the rocks. I asked for an ID but nothing really solid.... some said sponge... I thought it was bacteria..??? Don't really know.

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Well all that is gone now. I mean gone. Can't find a thread of it anywhere. Now I don't know what it is, but it has been around for a while, and it's gone now.

Everything else is good now. Same as before. No slime on the pellets. Very gentle tumble. No clumping or channeling.
 
Hard to say. I'd guess bacteria . If so, then some of the polymer or byproducts are mixing in the water and not remaining localized to the pellets.
 
tmz said:
Hard to say. I'd guess bacteria . If so, then some of the polymer or byproducts are mixing in the water and not remaining localized to the pellets.
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How do you figure? I was assuming that nutrients are becoming limited. Certainly not proof though.
 
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