3reef Community Bio Pellet Review

I just noticed this post sorry for the delay. Yes you are most likely seeing a bloom. If you are still adding the bacterial supplement stop until the water clears up. It shouldn't do any harm though.
Heres a link for those of you using the BRS Bio Pellet Reactor. Its my anti clog mod.

http://www.3reef.com/forums/i-made/brs-bio-pellet-reactor-mod-130080.html#post1293290

 

Thanks Vinny ! actually cloudiness lasted for more than 3 days and all my corals closed. also sudden algae growth also occurred. so I have stopped Microbacter7 and removed half of BP. within few hours, tank cleared and all my corals opened after two days.

Found below link useful to remove cloudiness

NP Reducing BioPellets a D. van Houten (Import) product - Important

now I have added some more BP and no cloudiness so far.

 

Yeah just like anything else it is best to go slow and move cautiously when changing the bacteria level and nutrient level in the tank. I actually only used half the recommended ammount of the Bio Pearls to start then added more very slowly over time. I am still not at the recommended ammount but I feel its better to be safe then sorry. Good luck and let us know how everything is doing.

 

Nitrates are at 80ppm before adding BP and after 2 weeks still at 80. my phosphates are less than 0.25 so no worries with it. but what I noticed in past 5 days, corals more bright and opening bigger than before. not sure if its due to BP or adding seachem reef plus, either way I am happy

 

Ew well actually that is not good. Since the bacteria need the presence of both Nitrates and Phosphates in order to work you may need to find another way to get those Nitrates down to a reasonable level. Once the bacteria has irradicated the small ammount of Phosphate they will no longer remove the Nitrate.

 

only way I can think of being do 50% water change. Is there any other easy way to bring down nitrates?

 

Does Vadka?

 

Vodka being long process same like using BP. I prefer BP over vodka dosing since it won't require everyday work and also very impressed with results from Steve's testing with BP/Vodka/GFO.

 

well yesterday 2/14/12 i removed the bio pellets after 2 days of fish breathing heavy some started to die, i believe the excess bacteria was eating up all the oxygen and made my tank oxygen deficient . i can't think of any other reason the fish started to have this issue. there were no signs of illness, i lost fish i had from the start up of my tank.
i checked my ammonia 0, nitrites 0 and nitrates 5 ...ph and so on, i was also having an algae growth on sand issue, nothing on rocks. but the stuff on the sand started to have bubbles on it. not good!
i was also dosing a probiotic bacteria. a brand i had not used before turned off my uv as stated to do on the label ( i will leave the brand nameless). i can't be sure what has caused this problem, but i feel chasing 0 nitrates is not worth losing fish over. i am back to running without bio pellets and will stay that way till i can figure out what happened and be sure it wasn't pellet related. i feel it was an issue of to much bacteria as i stated consuming up all the oxygen.

all inverts and corals seem to not be infected by what ever happened.
my uv is on i did a water change and i am hoping i don't lose any more fish

 

Did you notice any cloudiness? Are you running a skimmer?