Bio Pellet Reactor and cloudy water

TheSaint216 · Aug 12, 2012

I started using Bio Pellets about 4 days ago, went with the recommended amount for my Tank. I am starting to get cloudy water finally today and a white film on my glass. I am dosing with MicroBacter 7. My Birdsnest and Pocci arent looking like they like the cloudy water to much. How long should this normally last? Ive read this is a bacteria bloom. I am running two MP10's on opposing sides and Have a koralia 700 that I just moved from the top of the tank flowing up to the bottom of the tank where I was getting a buildup of Detrius. I have a bare bottom tank so Im trying to keep the bottom clean. Is there anything I should do while this bloom is happening?

scooterc268 · Aug 12, 2012

What size Skimmer you have? I run Bio pellets and never dosed bacteria and did not have cloudy water

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reef fish · Aug 12, 2012

Scooterc268 what kind of bio pellets do you run and in what reactor and what results that you see if you don't maind

scooterc268 · Aug 12, 2012

reef fish said:
Scooterc268 what kind of bio pellets do you run and in what reactor and what results that you see if you don't maind

Bulk reef supply pellets in a TLF reactor. I have used an entire pack of the smallest one they offer and placed it all at one time in the reactor.

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reef fish · Aug 12, 2012

150-550 tlf

TheSaint216 · Aug 12, 2012

Reef Octo NWB 110. Have the outflow tube of the reactor right next to the skimmer intake. Getting super dark skimmate. I have a video of my reactor on my build thread. Using a BRS reactor and the bio pellets were in a bulk container at my LFS. Probably BRS

UNCFAN · Aug 12, 2012

I believe that the cloudy water may come from the bacterial bloom when introducing so much bio-mass. Most start out with half the dose for bio-pellets the gradually increase. Putting the output from the reactor close to the skimmer also helps.