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[schooleyosis]

I run an EcoPlus 396 at approximately 50% on my bio-pellet reactor and it seems to work fine. Not sure how big of a reactor you have but I have the medium size one from Mixer911. 3" tube that is 17 inches tall... I'm only running 125mL of EcoBAK at the moment though. I think you'll be happy with the EcoPlus pump.

 

[gmoney243]

WM recomends 100gph per 1000ml

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[palvyre]

I am running 1500 ml. My pump is capable of 295 gph max, but I have it pushing two reactors. It's not giving me the tumble I want.

 

[schooleyosis]

I think the new pump will work great for ya then! Good luck.

 

[Dowtish]

My EcoBak is all clumping and barely moving around now. Going to pick up a beefier pump from the critter and plumb it separate from my carbon reactor this weekend. Already have a ball valve in line, going to pick up an EcoPlus 633.

I think that will be entirely too much pump for what you need, if you plan on using a single pump for the bio pellet reactor. The ecoplus 396 would be plenty IMO.

 

[bknapp]

I am also running the EcoPlus 396 just for my ecoBAK, and it is dialed back and I am running around 600 mL of ecoBAK.

 

[palvyre]

I'll try the smaller one then. Hope it does what I need.

 

[palvyre]

Works perfectly. Have it dialed back just a little.

 

[palvyre]

 

[bknapp]

Looks great Derek, any chance of a FTS?

 

[palvyre]

 

[bknapp]

Looking good man! Happy with the Apollo LED's?

 

[palvyre]

Yes. They work well.

The GHA I have is slowly dying out. Increased the flow through my ecobak, so hopefully that will speed up.

 

[bknapp]

Yes. They work well.

The GHA I have is slowly dying out. Increased the flow through my ecobak, so hopefully that will speed up.

The hair algae in my tank came hard and fast after I removed the GFO and added the ecoBAK. I didn't let the pellets get seeded well enough and just stopped using the GFO and I think it gave the HA enough to hold onto. Now I have some very small and thin patches.

 

[palvyre]

Same thing happened here. GHA showed up after I removed my GFO. So I added a small amount back and have been watching it slowly thin out.

 

[palvyre]

So I was using a 10k light fixture that had two mini T5 bulbs recommended by AC on my fuge. My chaeto never really grew. I replaced it a week ago with a 6500k CFL and it's growing now and I see algae all over the sides of my fuge. Guess the 10k was not the best choice.

 

[mixer911]

So I was using a 10k light fixture that had two mini T5 bulbs recommended by AC on my fuge. My chaeto never really grew. I replaced it a week ago with a 6500k CFL and it's growing now and I see algae all over the sides of my fuge. Guess the 10k was not the best choice.

Nope, Algaes' like lower kelvin light better. So just cheap old bulbs work best.

 

[Dowtish]

I'm actually using a par 30 bulb that have 3 LED's in it, but they are very yellow and I think around 6000k, and it is working quite well, and wont have to be replaced. Found it at lowes for about $12. FYI

 

[gmoney243]

Yea I've always got best results growing algae with cheap 3200k cfl bulbs. Chaeto grows mad if you have nutrients for it. Haven't tried any leds for algae tho might havr to check that bulb out for my scrubber chris

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[fireman23]

Im.using what sounds to be like the same bulb Chris is using. My macro algae definetly likes it.