I brought mine to Philippines last 2 weeks ago. It was inside the tripod bag, but they didn't allow me to hand carry the tripod even when it was inside the tripod bag. They didn't allow foldable umbrella to be hand carried too.
I'm using 1000ml of biopellet from vertex and another 1000ml of ecobak from warner marine all mixed in the same reactor. The reactor output is directly in the skimmer sump. I just shutdown the reactor last night. I might need to scrub the rocks this weekend.
I'm using the large Artex reactor. A twist and turn lid with no screws to undo.
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Problem is that since I started using bio pellets I started to have cyno in my tank too.