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Dowtish · Oct 2, 2012

That thing is rockin! glad to know its working well for you.

palvyre · Oct 2, 2012

My blood red acro from the frag swap RTN'd :/

palvyre · Nov 9, 2012

Blue tang died. She had a slow steady descent. Never really started actively feeding.

angrycubano · Nov 9, 2012

Aw man, I'm sorry to hear that brother.

palvyre · Nov 30, 2012

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.

schooleyosis · Nov 30, 2012

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 · Nov 30, 2012

WM recomends 100gph per 1000ml

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palvyre · Nov 30, 2012

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 · Nov 30, 2012

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

Dowtish · Nov 30, 2012

palvyre said:
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 · Nov 30, 2012

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 · Dec 1, 2012

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

palvyre · Dec 1, 2012

Works perfectly. Have it dialed back just a little.

palvyre · Dec 1, 2012

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bknapp · Dec 1, 2012

Looks great Derek, any chance of a FTS?

palvyre · Dec 2, 2012

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bknapp · Dec 2, 2012

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

palvyre · Dec 2, 2012

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 · Dec 2, 2012

palvyre said:
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.