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Unread 03/08/2018, 11:09 AM   #7
Carey1465
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Originally Posted by moondoggy4 View Post
I was running bio pellets successfully and then I increased the volume, and my skimmer started to skim like crazy I had witches hair like skimmate coming out of the lid of my skimmer, I thought wow this is working great and then I saw my Purple tang and it looked like lighting struck his head. So I attributed that to the increase of the bio pellets and I took them off line, my PT looks great now.


I’ve been thinking about doing away with the bio pellets and I’m down to 1/4 of what’s recommended for my size tank and I’m still around 5ppm. I have a FOLWR tank so I’m not worried about a few nitrates.

Also, I never ran carbon in my tanks because of the problems with HLLE.


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