Biopellets: my (VERY SHORT) experience
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you might be right, biopellets can reduce o2 levels. but boipellet reactors, especially the cheap one are very tweeky and if you aren't careful can also strip nitrates and phosphates. I mean like less than 0.0005ppm in a matter of days or even hours causing a total tank crash because fish, coral and coroline alge need these nutrients to live, just is small doses. whats known as Strippage can be best prevented by buying a good reactor like a reef dynamics one where flow rate through the reactor is controlled. the second thing I might suggest is that you might be using a poor quality pellet. cheaper pellets are corn based and come with a whole lot of problems, including o2 reductions. try swapping to the better fermented pellets like the ones from reef dynamics or dr tims
Understood. I bought a bag of NPX pellets and only used half the bag (it was enough for a 50gal tank) I was also feeding heavy. Nonetheless I was using a TLF reactor. At this point I plan mainly lps, softies and nems. Maybe a few easy SPS so I dont think ill retry pellets.
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Looks like from your sump picture that you were just running it full bore through the reactor. I was under the impression that bio pellets need to be run similar to a calcium reactor where your reactor pump is recirculating the media and you have a separate, very slow/tuneable effluent coming from the reactor straight into the skimmer intake.
