phosban reactor necessary for SPS?

[giants4pc]

Do you use one? Is it necessary for continual success or is putting some media in the sump sufficient?

 

[twon8]

i run carbon in them, never have run any gfo, it is not necesarry

 

[Yinger]

its not necessary, but definitely helps

 

[TexasPete]

IO used to drop it in the sump , in an old stocking (lol). I now run a reactor.

 

[Yinger]

oops

 

[snslarison]

I dont think it is nessesary but Im thinking of getting one as well to cut down on algae.

 

[Serioussnaps]

I love my Phosban reactor....its cheap and I dare you to try to grow algae in my tank!

 

[wcpeixoto]

Use Phosban Reactor is cheaper than use only media in a bag. With reactor more media has contact with water, so you can use less media and usually for a longer period. It pays back in few months, besides doesn't hold all the crap that bag does.

 

[LBCBJ]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I have a Phosban reactor and was wondering about the flow-through rate for the reactor. The directions say no tumbling, so I have only about 20gph flowing through right now, but it seems to me that without tumbling the media will just start to clump and channel in spots and then become a detritus/nitrate factory...any opinions or thoughts on this?

 

[ronkent]

You can have some tumbling. It says not too violently tho as it can grind itself into a powder. I have mine tumbling a little.

 

[manderx]

when i ran one, i would pulse the flow through it a few times a week to try to prevent any clumping/channels.

most important thing i've noticed is to run it as far away from your kalk drip as possible.