Jgraz's 90 gal SPS heavy

Bio pellet reactor in it temporary spot. When I add to the volume I might have a different are that I will put it.



Question those pellets that are above the other seem to be stuck to the tube will they be fine. I've shaken thing as much as I can a some of them just won't come down.

 

Biopellets week 2
Week 2: just added my next batch last yesterday. I started with 1/4, now I'm up to 1/2. It's still early I think to be seeing any results yet. Only thing I have noticed is that the skimmer is a bit harder to dial in ATM. Seems to be skimming a tad bit wetter. I'm still getting the usual film on glass also. I did not add any bacteria to start it off. I 2 weeks I'll add the next 1/4.

 

They will unstick themselves, but you might know that already

It looked like everything was doing great without biopellets. May I ask why you wanted to run them? Whats the PO4 and NO3?

 

Looks really good.


I love the rock work.

 

Nice build. Been looking at a 90g.

 

Thanks everyone for the compliments

 

They did in fact unstick themselves. The main reason I started Biopellets is obviously to bring nutrients under control. But in that is also the fact that I refuse to pay the crazy price of GFO. I'm a heavy feeder and i have a pretty good size bioload in the system, about to get a little bigger eith the tie in of a upcoming nano, so with that comes the phosphates and nitrates. So I figured this would suit me better then the constant changing of GFO.

 

Tank looks great, nice manifold!

 

Bio-pellets week 4:
So last week i noticed that I would have to clean a heavy film off the glass almost daily. Everything looked good otherwise so I just kind of filed it away in my brain for later thought. The last time I cleaned the glass was on Thursday and as of this morning its still pretty clean. So I figured that the pellets finally kicked in since i also noticed that my skimmer production while the same seems to be much darker and smellier. Oh, and cheato has also been dying off, so I finally tossed that out. With that said I went ahead and added my 3 batch of pellets. This brings me up to about 3/4 of a full batch. After I brought the reactor back online I decided it was time to feed. I noticed that one of my bangaii's is missing. Then I realize that I haven't seen it in quite some time. Then I remembered the extra film on the glass. I guess he must have died last week sometime and the hermits just did their job.

Anyway no other changes ATM.

 

Well it's been a while since I updated. Nothing special to report. Pellets seem to be going well. I changed my mp20's to 40's, and I'm on the hunt for at least one more fish. Most likely a wrasse, though I'm not not exactly sure which one yet. Well that's about it. I took a ton of pics today as well I'll get to most of them later but here is a few top downs for now. Some are the pretty much the same pic with white balance adjusted. Thanks for looking.