Phosphate Control?

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What are you using to control your phosphates? Reactors or meshed bag and what media are you using or are you using the phosphate pads. Im having issues with my phosphate being up and ive reduced the amount of feeding and currently im using the a phosphate reactor with Rowaphos which has been changed recently. So im curious what you are using?
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Gerald
 
I have a Phosban reactor with Rowaphos, but since that is a bit small for my size tank, I also use Phosar by Warner Marine, which doesn't need a reactor and works great. There is also the liquid solution by Blue Life, which is supposed to be very good, but I haven't tried that yet.
 
Phosban, but it still hasn't done much to my tank. I've still got a bit of phosphate in my tank, but fortunaty the low levels of nitrate in the tank keep the algae under control.
 
Oh and I've got those brown phosphate pads, I just havn't had the cojones to put them in my tank for fear that it might RTN my acros from the rapid drop in phosphate. Although I still test high for phosphate, all of my corals have great coloration, no browning out.
 
eric how high were your PO4. usually it takes two doses to get it down to 0. mine were really high and but 150grams in the reactor and after a week i changed it b/c the PO4 leveled off with 150grams and within like 2 days it was 0.
 
Mine usually hover between .25 and .5. Somewhere in there. I don't know if I believe it though, as I have used 3-4 jugs of 150g phosban, and it didn't seem to make a dent. I don't know. I've been thinking recently about just changing out the media like once a week and trying to chase the numbers down. Maybe even investing in a $25 jug of ROWAphos since it's supposed to be the best.

Since it's the summer and i'm not working yet, I suppose it's as good a time as any to chase down those parameters which I'm not happy with.
 
If I may suggest the Blue Life "Phosphate Control", we have had really good feed back on this product and our in-house use has proven the most efficient way to remove phosphates in our main systems.

I would only caution that you follow the directions and lower your phosphates gradually to avoid water cloudiness. Lowering your phosphates by 1ppm per day, is recommended and we have seen excellent results.

Best regards....

Eric

*edited at posters request.
 
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I use 2 phosban reactors, one with chemipure (or chemiclean, whichever is the carbon media, not the redslime remover), and the other with phosban. I've been told that the chemipure releases phosphates so that could be canceling out the phosban. Who knows. I'm going to try soon just one reactor with phosban and see how that goes.
 
Hrmm, I see all the replys and can't believe that no one has touched on nutrient removal via harvesting cheato from your refugium.

At the table where we sat during the FMAS water test meeting
I was the only one to have 0 phosphate. speckled grouper can attest to that!

I have been through the algae producing phosphate battle many times and what removed phosphate for good from my 180 was moving to RO+DI for my make up water and the addition of a refugium stocked with the mighty green brillo pad we have come to know as cheato..

As it grows grab a handful or two and shake it above your tank to feed the fish the pods and misc live food to the tank then off to the toilet to meet davy jones....... <flush>



2c





:@)
 
Yea my cheato doesn't grow. I need a new bulb for the refug anyway.

So all this talk of phosphates and phosphate removing material has got me started, so I just cleaned out my old phosban reactors and emptied the material, broke out the new phosban, and I'm gonna put that back together soon. Since I'm breaking a sweat on the tank anyway (opening those stuck closed phosban reactors was harddddd!) I'm gonna just go ahead and do my 3 month waterchange :). I'll let ya guys know how my phosphate tests out after both of those.
 
Oh and on the blue life phosphate control.... Where does the phosphate go? Does it get skimmed up? Does it preciptate the phosphate? And how will it effect SPS corals? Riddle me that Batman.
 
Does it heat up at all? I've been using a ghetto twist PC bulb inside a ghetto aluminum reflector.

20 gallons, 2 clean phosban reactors, and one new load of phosban down... WHEW!

I tested the water I got from Barrier Reef before adding it. Alk was at 6.5, Ca at 370, sg at 36ppt or so, maybe a little higher. I threw in about 60-70mL of part 1 (alkalinity) and I'm gonna do about 60 or 90 mL of part 2 (calcium) in a little while once I clean up the place to balance it all out.

I must admit though, aside from the haze of all the detritus i kicked up siphoning it from display and sump, the tank is looking good.
 
Doesn't heat up my tank and I have it placed like 2 inches from the top of the refugium sitting on white plastic eggcrate also from home depot


refugium.jpg
 
Batman,

Yes...the phosphate is precipitated out by the skimmer. The biggest reason I love this product is that you don't need all the gagets...pumps, reactors, expensive powders. You can just add some drops, and the phosphates is bound up...and precipitated out.

FYI...this technology is and has been used by public aquariums for years. Mainly to treat large water volumes efficiently and effectively.

Love it!

Eric

PS...It's "Phosphate Control" not "remover".
 
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