Bio Pellets and GFO

Would you run both of these or one or the other?

NG

 

1 or the other for sure, kinda doing the same thing! ya run GFO with carbon, or biopellets i believe.

 

New Videos - BRS TV - English
Carbon / GFO Videos - BRS TV - English

 

checking it out... thanks...

 

I know many reefers here with MAJOR SPS tanks running the big 3, GFO, Carbon & Bio-Pellets. I to run all 3.

The pellets really only remove what they can with what they are feed. GFO will only remove as much as they are feed as well, so running them both at the same time is all good.

 

Hmmm, interesting. Those BRS videos did not talk about the partnership or lack of one between the GFO and carbon, Cosmo.... But thanks for the links

 

Carbon / GFO Videos - BRS TV - English

it was the next video!

 

Your own set up will answer the question for you NG

there are many carbon dosers, of various forms, including bio pellets, who are succesful at maintaining limited phosphate levels doing just that
many peoples experience including my own is that in a well maintained set up with control over nutrient imports and exports, that Nitrate can eventually become limited and thus the carbon dosing fails to completely control the phosphates ( the bacteria being created by carbon dosing seem to want both nitrate and phosphate in a particular ratio and if one is to low or non existant, this limits their ability to process the remaining one)
in that scenario, running GFO in addition to the bio pellets is a good plan IMO

 

Whats up, Steve! Makes sense. I used to do the vodka dosing but I had too many issues. This seems so easy with no issues of daily maintaining for overdosing and I am already running two reactors, so GFO can share with Carbon and I can have one for Bio-Pellets....

 

sounds like a good plan to me Nitty Gritty , hope it works out for you
might be a good idea to run carbon on its own at first and then later if your tank indicates it needs it (frequency of glass cleaning is a good indicator) then consider adding the GFO back into the system

bear in mind the different flow rates and exaustion capacities of carbon and GFO , carbon can take a decent amount of flow and providing that stops it compacting and only expossing limited surface area to water

GFO tumbled to hard , tends to grind to dust