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I have majority of the pellets left and will use it when the need arises. Right now taking it offline so the tank can recover :) I would empty the reactor and use the new pellets only. If anything it will be a good comparison tests. Start with 200ml you should see much heavier skimmate when it...

I use Apex Classic (Lite) and had no experience with PK. Apex Jr. is a good choice. For me it's very important to be able to monitor remotely and receive alerts for power outage and temperature. I also monitor PH level as a proxy for the alk level. Make sure Apex Jr. works with Apex Fusion if...

Hmm. It seems brand of pellets does make a difference. I use EcoBak it has completely striped my system in a matter of 2 months. 400ml in 200g. I now have to take it offline. We had a post a few months back discussing this.

Tank looks great, especially consider the high nutrient level. How long have you been running the BP reactor? It can take a while (like 1 month) to kick in and once it does it should bring down the level quickly. So be careful not overdoing it.

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My stay at 8 to 8.4. Gets lower by about 0.1 in winter because of higher co2 level. I had the probe for about 2 years now. Calibrated only once when installed. Now it's covered with quite a bit of pineapple sponge. These probes are not supposed to last that long.

Took out about 100ml of pellets let's see how it goes.

Thanks for the info. What I might be missing as part of the nopox regime was mb7. I remember reading about it but the dosing started working quite quickly so I never thought too much about it. I did dose nitrate as well to maintain the Redfield issue.

I run a reef octopus BP110 with about 500ml of EcoBak pellets in it. 180g water volume medium stocked. Feed the tank the equivalent of 1 large cube of blackworm and some flakes daily.

I have used nopox before I brought back the reactor. It was working great for a while with a low dosage (3ml for 200g water volume) but later on I could not keep the nutrient level down even with increased dosage, as high as 20ml daily. I started to think there was a bacteria die off in my tank...

I have tried this product a couple of weeks ago, based on rave reviews on the R2R forum. My goal was to remove some nagging bubble algae growing inside the overflow and I also happen to have some Cyano at the time. I did 3 doses at the recommended dosage and had to stop. It started causing some...

I'd like to get some opinion on how people run their bio pellet. This is my second time running a BP reactor. I started running it about 2 months ago, when PO4 was 0.1. and I think sometime during last week PO4 is down to undetectable level. It shows zero on Hanna checker. Obviously it's...

I have SPS growing on overflow. On the glass it might now hold well. I have the SPS glued to a disc then glue the disc to the overflow so I can move it around. Right now I have a 6 inch area encrusted with strawberry shortcake. It grows horizontal as a table.

If you have the money to burn go with 4 vortexes otherwise go with jebaos. I have used jebaos for years never had any problem. Vortechs have nicer flow than jebaos but do get noisier over time. The gyre is pretty useless in a 180. I have run all 3 in my 4 ft tank. Gyre seems to have lost power...

It's a bummer to lose a frag like WD. I myself won't buy a frag over $50 anymore. Why? There are a lot of acros look nice when healthy and grown into a colony. Plus there is a pretty high probability one will lose the frag before it grows into a colony.

Really nice especially the stand.

Incredible SPS tank!

Dose the same amount you would manually and test weekly. Unless your tank consumes a lot of alk daily measurement is not necessary.

Let's hope I don't screw up again this time.