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Unread 11/19/2014, 08:33 AM   #1
cyanobacteria
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bio pellets and dosing bacteria

so I'm running npx biopellets and i noticed people dose bacteria strains to seed the pellets.. is it necessary to do so? the instructions say nothing about dosing


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Unread 11/29/2014, 08:47 PM   #2
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I don't think it has to be done but a lot of people do it just to have a variety of different bacteria strains.
I put some in randomly here and there.. prodibio, microbacter7 and some zeobak.
Probably not really necessary.


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Unread 11/30/2014, 07:26 PM   #3
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I seeded mine with bright well microbacter 7 as well got rid of all my hair algae


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