Phosban Reactor for SPS Success?

[DaddyJax]

I am not a Phos remover supporter at all!! I think that it removes alot more than p04. Do a search on this and look also at the coral lightning. Alot of post from people complaining that there corals are light in color and there are a few things that usually pop up. One is they are running an extremely low nutrient system with very few fish and the other is they are running P04 remover 24/7. I have seen a number of poeple stop running their reactors and their colors come right back. I look at it like a bandaid. You should look for the source of the P04 and prevent it from getting in your system. I am not saying that it doesn't have its place as a temporary fix but it is just that, temporary. IMO

 

[toothman]

I have received 5 mail order shipments from different vendors. With out mentioning the worst which obviously holds stock in photo shop, I will mention the best. Upscale fish out of Oregon. The frags I received were the most brilliant colors of all. I talked with Travis and his method is to keep phosphate around .01 with a hanna colorimeter. By using a phosphate reactor. He also adds kent amino acids and one other additve from kent. Also uses carbon regularly.

I tested the water with my deltec test kit and indeed 0.0 phosphate.

I also feel it is a no brainer why not run something that will greatly lessen algae. You only need to wipe the glass 2x a week vs everyday.

I also am now adding the kent trace elements for one week. The only thing I noticed so far was more intense blue on some of the sps.

Ed Ralff

 

[rleechb]

I don't think it's a bad idea to add it, but use very little initially, if you do, and build up to more and more, checking your parameters while doing so. I added a bag of phosban to my refugium, and I had an alk drop from 9ish to a litte over 4 (dKH). All my corals survived, with only a little bit of necrosis on one of my millis, but had I not caught it quickly, it would have been big trouble.

Since then, I've stopped using phosban, and things have actually looked better, with only a little extra film algae on the glass.

 

[Kip]

GFO ... i use it, i like it, i dont like changing it, i dont like paying for it, but i like that it allows me to feed my inhabs more without worry of excess nutrients sitting around to brown out corals and cause nuissance algae.