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What is carbon dosing and how does it work? What are the limiting factors? What are the negative side effects? I see many threads on this and would like to get a healthy debate from everyone. What is the science behind it?

Hi All, Here is my first attempt to my DIY Biopellet Wheel reactor.:fish: (Photos to be posted soon, newbie need more posts) DVD Disc case, running a Tunze 106s pump, flex tubing and hard tubing, and a cylinder screen(spare parts aquarium bin) or you can use a overflow screen...

Hello all- I signed up on this site a few months back, however I am not new to saltwater. I have two tanks, a 60 rimless cube, with seahorses and LPS, and a 155 fowlr. Since doing this from the late 90's, I have always had small bouts with nitrates. However, since heavily stocking my 155, I...

Well, practically free.. my diy :) What you need: a bit of window screen to fit under the cap a pop bottle (chose green to hopefully limit light and the possible growths associated) 2 suction cups an old powerhead I used a dremel, the drill bit to start the holes for the suction cups and cap, a...

Ive got this thing set up so the power head pushing water through it is in the first chamber of my sump. Which is where there are micro bubbles from skimmer and overflow exit. Its getting air bubbles in the reactor and on the bio pellets. Question is that gonna be a problem, should I place the...

My pellets have been up and running for about a month and a half.So far all params are great.About a week ago they started to clump and I have noticed my water is getting a little cloudy and some red algae is showing up on my sand bed.Could the clumping pellets be causing this?Also can I just...

- BRS Bio Pellets 1000 ml and reactor combo pack $

Also is it worth purchasing and setting up and can it cause any harm? I have seen some very nice tanks with their owners preaching how good they are.

hey guys hope every one is feeling great today :) ok bio pellets i have started useing them for about 4-5 weeks now but i am not sure if they working my water paramters are the same pho is up i dont test i can tell cause i have more alge growing every where so much that i have to siphon it...

So i have this idea, if you were to attach a water pump to the hose of a XL Siphon Vacuum Gravel Cleaner, then capped the end of the cleaner tube with plastic that is drilled with holes. Would this work? I would use bio pellets inside of it.

Hey reefers. Some pics of my one year old tank Hope you enjoy! Thanks for looking!

I've been using bio pellets for a couple months now. I started with like 50ml-ish for my 90 gallon with a 30 gallon sump. I never had cyno before and it just started to get worse and worse. I then tried reducing the amount of pellets and it got better but i still have an on going fight with it...

Im new the hobby but then again im not. I started out in 2005 with a 46 gallon bowfront. Then I talked to Matt about a 210 and he pulled one out of his you know what... Its been up and running now for 4 years with nothing to show except a Hippo Tang, Foxface, Clown, Dasjardini, and some little...