Esablished volcano reef with nitrate issues, a biopellet timeline

[blatzphemy]

My tank is a bit cloudy because I just cleaned it up.

It's a series of two tanks, one reef safe (150) and one predator (250) tank with mangroves and volcano rock work. There's also a 200 gallon sump and a 40 gallon fuge.

I have been gone almost 8 months in my bid to make it to the olympics for swimming and filming a TV show. I did water changes whenever I could but mostly my fish were fed daily and top off water was added.

Yes, I know my tank has an extremely large bioload. The inhabitants have been living in there happily for over a year and some of them up to four years. My rockwork in the 150 gallon tank is over 10 years old and the rocks from the volcano tank are mostly around four.

Pictures

http://imgur.com/a/RUqdd

The 300 gallon has; a large spiny puffer, lion fish, file fish, red sea sailfin, blond naso, purple tang, large hippo, various other tangs, 10 clowns, file fish, dragon wrasp, mandarin, snowflake eel, clown trigger, niger trigger, picasso trigger, a large rabbit fish, a 4 line damsil I cant catch and various others.

The 150 only has a few shrimp, stars, a giant clam, and some basic tangs in it. I plan on redoing the rock work and blacking it out for awhile when my tank stabilizes. I have a bad problem with majo anenomes. too many to fight. at this point I only have some leather coral and the clam. I will find a place for the clam and hopefully bring this tank back to its former glory (heavily dominated SPS coral tank)

Currently there was little flow in my tanks. I have the returns and a MP 60 on the 250. This was probably a big issue with nitrates.

My filters include the 40 gallon fuge filled with macro, sock filters, SRO 5000 reef octopus, a SRO 5000 Calcium reactor now filled with Biopellets, two canisters with GFO and carbon.

I know I will get plenty of criticism but please back it up with personal experience or references.

I will update the pictures hopefully weekly so you can see how the biopellets do. Currently theres only 1 liter of NPX pellets in the reactor. I will add the other half in two weeks time.