Vertex Pro Bio Pellets

[bmwaaron]

Since there is a thread for the other 2 Bio Pellet products I thought I would start one on the Vertex Pro Bio Pellets.



I adapted my old Zeovit reactor for the new Pellets


This is the Reactor in action

[bmwaaron]

I am am switching from Zeovit to this Product so I already Have a ULNS and am hopping this product will keep my P04 and Nitrate undetectable.

[bmwaaron]

These pellets look a little diffrent from what I can see in the other pictures. I would be nice if someone could post close ups of the other products.





sorry for the quality of the pictures.

[mal1099]

bmwaaron, I am also running this pellets. I did get a bacterial bloom after a few days and it lasted about 3 days. My system was at 5-10 nitrates and 0.1 phosphates when i started. After 5 days using this product both went to zero. I would recommend trying to run the output of your reactor thru your skimmer is possible. I did this and seems to be going good so far. Also looking at your reactor those pellets building up at the top need to be moved down or removed they all need to be tumbling from i have been told. I believe the none tumbling pellets are what cause the bacterial blooms since i found a few just sitting in my sump from when the pump to reactor started up. I removed them and the bacterial bloom was gone soon after. So good luck and keep us posted with your success.

[nmbeg]

from the other threads, people seem to indicate that too much agitation actually sends bacteria flying and causes a bloom in the water column. This seems to be an ongoing debate though.

[nmbeg]

so, where can I buy me some bio-pellets?

[bmwaaron]

Premium Aquatics is selling them

[bmwaaron]

Originally Posted by mal1099

I would recommend trying to run the output of your reactor thru your skimmer is possible. I did this and seems to be going good so far. Also looking at your reactor those pellets building up at the top need to be moved down or removed they all need to be tumbling from i have been told. .

I have the output of the reactor going to the protein skimmer. Also the picture I took was from when the pellets were first put in the reactor so there was a section that was floating for an hour or 2 but now all the pellets are moving in the reactor.

[soulsigma]

Originally Posted by mal1099

bmwaaron, I am also running this pellets. I did get a bacterial bloom after a few days and it lasted about 3 days. My system was at 5-10 nitrates and 0.1 phosphates when i started. After 5 days using this product both went to zero. I would recommend trying to run the output of your reactor thru your skimmer is possible. I did this and seems to be going good so far. Also looking at your reactor those pellets building up at the top need to be moved down or removed they all need to be tumbling from i have been told. I believe the none tumbling pellets are what cause the bacterial blooms since i found a few just sitting in my sump from when the pump to reactor started up. I removed them and the bacterial bloom was gone soon after. So good luck and keep us posted with your success.

Did you add the entire package of pellets @ once or did you start with a small amount and build up to the required dose for your system?

[ghstrider]

Im trying it as well. started about a week ago and P04 was at 0.11 today down from 0.2 last week (been feeding heavy). Will give a report after a few weeks.

[thenewone]

seem that everyone is coming out with this things but with no real research or experience with them well at least in the long run some of them contradict them self in alot of their adds just a little worried bc im like alot of ppl are using them lets just hope that we have done a good choice in using them.

[catman78]

How many GPH is required to keep the pellets in motion once they start producing mulm?

Like NP pellets or EcoBak?

[bmwaaron]

Originally Posted by soulsigma

Did you add the entire package of pellets @ once or did you start with a small amount and build up to the required dose for your system?

I actually started all at once since I have very low P04 and Nitrate. If these were higher and I wasnt switching from a bacterial system already I would have dont about half.

[bmwaaron]

Originally Posted by catman78

How many GPH is required to keep the pellets in motion once they start producing mulm?

Like NP pellets or EcoBak?

I cant answer the first part of your question since I have only been running them 1 day but I can say from the pictures I have seen of EcoBak thats what they look like.

[reef_doug]

Originally Posted by catman78

How many GPH is required to keep the pellets in motion once they start producing mulm?

Like NP pellets or EcoBak?

For GPH it really depends on the reactor diameter, inlet and outlet size. Apparently 5/8" inlet and 5/8" outlet works best. I'm trying to modify a ZEOvit reactor that's 8" diameter with 5/8" inlet and 1-1/4" outlet. 300-600 GPH is not uncommon though.

[bmwaaron]

Ok today (day 3) I have noticed my water is a little cloudy and my protien skimmer was over flowing. I guess it's starting to work.

[bmwaaron]

Woke up this morning and the tank is cloudy. I will post pictures tonight.

[tegee]

This is where I found them for sale with a nice reactor as well: http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/...iopellets.html . The jury is still out for me in regard to running these on my sps tank. As others have stated, very little research and little time on the market concerns me a bit. To that end, I am very curious to try and may begin soon.

[Hoyden]

I have some on order and look forward to trying it. I will be using an Avast Marine MR-5 reactor which seemed like a lower cost alternative to the Vertex.

[bmwaaron]

Ok here is what my tank looks like tonight.



My PH and Redox seem to be holding so I hope this just clears up on its own soon.

[mal1099]

I added half the recommended dosage when i started and got a bacteril bloom. After a week i did add the rest tho and im running 1000ml atmand no issues with a bac bloom. It took 3 days for mine to clear up bwaaron

[Wd40]

bwarron ur tank is a lil worse than mine, however its been 3 days for me already and nothing! my skimmer is skimming awesome though, i mean i have to empty the cup like twice a day.. as far as flow i was running a maxi 1200 in a dual brs reactor with 500ml and i noticed they stopped tubling so i went to a rio 2100 that got them tumbling and now my water is even cloudier!

[bmwaaron]

Well there is comfort in knowing that these seems to be a normal situation. My tank this morning is still very cloudy. Everything is still alive and my PH and Redox are holding strong.

My Redox and PH seem to have bottomed out according to my graph so maybe the water will start to clear today.

[Bennytheblenny]

I just placed an order for 6 liters of this product for my tank from Premium Aquatics, since the other media is sold out currently from Marine Depot. I have a quick question though, how much flow do you put through the reactor? Is the media moving similarly to GFO? Is this product essentially the same material as the one from the Netherlands in the other thread? Ill post my results when I get this thing up and running.

[borcu]

is there any reasonable explanation for bacteria blooms? looks mostly problem.