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What was the specific problem you were fighting that made you opt to remove the biopellets?

id also like to know, i have had nothing but good results with the exception of having ultra low nutes and loosing color, but that is because my tank has hardly no fish (bio load) and i feed 3 times a week

I was getting a lot of cyano within the display tank which I have read and also heard from other members regarding their experiences as well. I guess its not something I should use when just starting the aquarium but I am going to take it back to basics for a while and slowly change things around. First I have to deal with my lighting issue.

I had some cyano, brown stuff that bugged me, and some dinoflagellates. My tank too was new and it bugged me. I just cleaned out what I could to keep it under control.

I dosed with Chemi-Clean twice in my frag tank (10g) but never the main system. I used Peroxide (3%) for 8 days twice in the 400g. And I did quite a bit of sand stirring with a Kent Scraper to get that brown dust water-borne.

Algae-phases are part of new tanks no matter how you set them up.

how many times can you regenerate this media? looks like a real money saver compaired to GFO, the particle size is so small id be scared of loosing half of it before it comes time to regenerate

Which reactor are you using for this?

Originally Posted by baker.shawn

how many times can you regenerate this media? looks like a real money saver compaired to GFO, the particle size is so small id be scared of loosing half of it before it comes time to regenerate

The regeneration process requires a separate media called RegeneratePhor which is not expensive at all (about $9.00 for 1,500ml of it). I have about 175ml currently and that amount will regenerate the media up to 8 times. I don't think you can go wrong with that. Also I wouldn't be worried about the small size because I have used GFO before and this media once in water appears pretty heavy. I have actually had to increase the water flow to get the boiling water affect going. My only issue it that it is so small it fell through the reactor plate a bit and collected on the very bottom of the reactor which is more annoying then detrimental in my opinion.

Originally Posted by NanaReefer

Which reactor are you using for this?

I re-purposed on of my Avast Marine Works MR-5 "You Build" Media Reactors to fluidize the media. I originally had sand in it but it kept clogging and so I decided to remove it until I could get some custom designed equipment delivered.

How are the Avast products working out for you? I have been looking at them myself.

Originally Posted by chuck

How are the Avast products working out for you? I have been looking at them myself.

They are working quite fine. I am actually working with Justin of Avast to get some custom made items as well. I would recommend them without a doubt in my mind.

Did you use any sponges with this media?

Originally Posted by melev

Did you use any sponges with this media?

There are sponges that came with my media reactors but they got clogged with sand so I just decided to do without them for the time being.

For GFO, you should definitely use the sponges. They protect your fish and corals from harm from the fines that come off the media. I don't know anyone that has run without them - seems like a dangerous method to me.