done with bio-pellets!

Just don't cut them out all at once or you'll have a crash, unless you dose some other carbon source right away. I would recommend vinegar or a vinegar/vodka mix as opposed to just vodka. I've had much better luck with vinegar/vodka and from what I've read a lot of other people have too. Vinegar is 1/8th the strength of vodka, so it's pretty easy to do the math for dosing. People have less of an issue with cyano using vinegar. I mixed my vodka/vinegar solution and diluted it with ro/di in a water bottle and have my peristaltic doser set to dose 3 different 1 minute doses/day. 3 min/day has been my maintenance dose, I was up to 8 min/day.

 

http://www.avastmarine.com/ssc/do/product/Biopellet-Mixing-Nozzle

there is a $15 solution to your problem.

 

I hear your frustration Jeremy, I have the same probem and feel the same way abought spending alot on a different reactor.
 As far as that nozzle Mthomp mentioned, I have one and it helps but wont doesnt cure the the problem. Im going to do some mod's to mine to hopefully get it working better.

 

Yipp same here got tired of always shaking up the canister.

 

I've had the same frustration with biopellets. Tried a few different reactors and always ran into the same problem. Let me know how your transition to carbon dosing goes. I'm currently phasing my pellets out while getting Zeovit up and running. I had some decent success with pellets but I was never able to consistently keep PO4 stripped down to .02 or lower the way I could with Zeovit.

 

i also have tossed the pellets and returned to gfo and a denitrato = sulphurr reactor seems to be working well.