Reef pellets gfo and other media?

[superclown]

In my 30g cube I have to admit I'm a bit of a slacker with running any thing in my filter bags. I have a Skimmer and some cheato in my sump I don't dose anything.

I was thinking of getting some gfo and carbon from brs and throwing them in a filter bag. I was reading a little bit about reef pellets and saw it also reduced p04 as well as increased denitrifying bacteria.

Do you need a reactor for the Bio pellets or gfo?

What do you guys run? What seems to work best in your opinion?

Maybe another product that I'm unaware of?

Should I be dosing kalk ?

I know its a lot of questions but these have been in the BA k of my head for a few weeks now

 

[superclown]

I have never heard of that before but from looking at it seems like pretty good stuff. I may look into adding that

 

[ralph atl]

bio pellets have to be in a reactor.

GFO & Carbon do best in a reactor....BRS has a dual one that's pretty good.

 

[tsellers]

I have the dual GFO and Carbon reactor from BRS and like it.

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[ff337]

I just gave away my BRS reactor. Bought Two Little Fishes to replace them. Won't look back. The person that I gave my unit to, is not happy either.

 

[superclown]

FF337;747715 wrote: I just gave away my BRS reactor. Bought Two Little Fishes to replace them. Won't look back. The person that I gave my unit to, is not happy either.

I have been eyeballing the two little fishes reactors for some time but was curious what you and your friend were not happy about?

 

[ff337]

When running GFO and carbon as instructed, the GFO flow changes daily. One day it will be flowing correctly, next day it will be grinding away. After you correct the flow, the following day might be grinding away or not tumbling at all. Plus GFO always ends up in the carbon section, almost no matter what level you added to both. Disappointing and discouraging.

Disclaimer: This is my opinion.

 

[superclown]

Hmm that's odd

 

[ff337]

The flow for GFO has to allow the GFO to tumble slightly, but the way the water is introduced into the canister I believe is the problem. It causes a jet from the top to the bottom. Other reactors have a pipe from the top to the bottom that allows the water to flow from the bottom to the top.

The design creates an inconsistent flow and I have found that I am not the only one that feels the same.

 

[superclown]

Oh ok that makes sense. I read with phosban 150 reactor you can mix gfo / activated carbon in one unit. I feel with a smaller tank I should be fine in doing this iI'm doing a brs order for the carbon and group will have tto pick up reactor else where

 

[ff337]

I think you can do that. I personally have 2 reactors. Another option to run rather than gfo and carbon is Seagel. It is phosban and carbon.

For some crazy reason the carbon and the phosban come together all mixed up. Then after you put it in the reactor and add flow - it separates and the phosban tumbles slightly and the carbon stays still. Its a magic act.

 

[superclown]

I'm assuming the carbon is heavier than gfo

 

[racinrevo0818]

Just recently purchased the brs deluxe reactor. Now they are recommending you mix gfo and carbon together while it is dry then fill cartridge just like carbon. Use half the amount of recommended gfo and full amount of carbon and change every 2 to 4 weeks. Works out very well then you don't have to worry about flow but still hate using the sponges to hold media in there they just don't work that well.


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[schwaggs]

Love my TLF 550 reactor. Tumbles the media nicely with only a Maxijet 600.

 

[jbdreefs]

I run gfo in a two little fishes reactor and carbon in a delux BRS reactor. I have them plumbed to a manifold supplied by a mag 3. Everything works great and I do not have to tinker with things every day.