Biopellet test/biochurn review

[Pufferreefer]

Hi everyone
So when I was researching biopellets I had a very tough time with not a lot of results on them so I thought I'd share my experience as I go. The reason why I'm using biopellets is because I can't afford to be doing 25 gallon water changes every 2 days and neither can my corals. I have a 100 gallon tank, a eshopps s120, and gfo. I was running a coral life uv sterilizer but it got filled with water and rust. I also have a aquaripure denitrator that never worked that I'll be removing off my tank shortly. Anytime I've read anything about cyano issues with biopellets the people don't mention that they plumbed it to their skimmers. I siliconed a T to my eshopps s120. I'll post as I go!

 

[Pufferreefer]

Hi everyone
So when I was researching biopellets I had a very tough time with not a lot of results on them so I thought I'd share my experience as I go. The reason why I'm using biopellets is because I can't afford to be doing 25 gallon water changes every 2 days and neither can my corals. I have a 100 gallon tank, a eshopps s120, and gfo. I was running a coral life uv sterilizer but it got filled with water and rust. I also have a aquaripure denitrator that never worked that I'll be removing off my tank shortly. Anytime I've read anything about cyano issues with biopellets the people don't mention that they plumbed it to their skimmers. I siliconed a T to my eshopps s120. I'll post as I go!

Update
So the T to the inlet to the skimmer immediately ripped apart which I should've known would've. I bought a 1 inch 90 degree to a 3/4 thread and put the venturi into it and put Silicon all the way around it. It dried pretty quick but it's solid.

 

[Pufferreefer]

Finished build.

 

[Pufferreefer]

So my nitrates have been holding for a couple days at 16 to 20. For awhile they were around 16 and began to rise a bit so I added a few more pellets about a week ago and just added more now. My corals looks wonderful. Their colors are popping and they look full. My tangs seem a bit stressed and I did just learn my phosphates were a bit high(. 08-.16) so I swapped out GFO. Alkalinity is holding but kind of low with daily calcium/Alkalinity additives. Protein skimmer has been pulling out a lot more. The pellets have also gotten smaller and turned a yellow color. So far I'm pretty happy. A couple weeks ago I did have a hair algae spurt that I quickly siphoned and scraped 3 inches in every direction of where it was and it never came back, don't know if that had to do with the pellets though. Also my brown algae has been slowly going away. I'm about around 300 ish ml of pellets which is 1/2 to 3/4 the recommended dose of the biosphere pellets I'm using. I've been feeding very heavily too. I don't believe I also mentioned my heavy live stock.
1 hippo tang
1 yellow tang
Two clowns
Coral beauty
Porcupine puffer(the reason for my nitrate problem(I know bad idea) )