Biopelets?!

[fchiavenato]

Hi everybody,

When i first saw a marine aquarium i fell in love!!
And bought two of them!
First i bought a 50 gal tank, now I bought the glass for a new setup ( about 250 gal)
The question:
In the small tank the PO4, and nit levels was never low! The salesman of my LFS told me to install an in line fluidized bed filter( 600 lts/h) filled with biolastic pellets about 100 ml of bioplastics and 90 ml of Phosban.
The leves got down almost at zero, better saying, the PO4 is in zero and the nit leves are zero and 0,25 for the NO3 0,1
Can I leave this filter running?
One of these will be suficient for the bigger setup?
It interfere wiyh the calcium reactor?
Thank's for now!

 

[Northstar24]

The biopellets will need to periodically be replaced, as the bacteria break them down. The filter that works for your 50 gallon will not be sufficient for your larger 250 gallon setup. You'd need roughly 5 times the biopellets for the 250 (its based on water volume)

In addition, I would not run phosban with biopellets in the same reactor. To my knowledge, biopellets are best run by themselves in a dedicated reactor. I also do not know of any reason why biopellets would interfere with a calcium reactor