Seahorselover68
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Does anyone use a Phosphate Reactor on their seahorse tank?
Phosphate Reactor
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starfishchef
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I do not... I do however keep a lot of different macro algae in my tank so phosphate is not much of an issue for me... also if you are using RO DI water with your salt mix phosphate shouldn't be present in the tank unless your water quality is off mostly caused by not changing water and other factors.
Fallling
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I'm setting up my seahorse tank (it's cycling right now) and will not be setting up a phosphate reactor... at least not in the beginning. If down the line I keep finding I have issues with phosphate, then I might decide to run one. However, I also plan on having a bunch of macro algae in both the display and inline refugium. I prefer to take a simpler approach when setting up tanks and and try to achieve a more natural balance before I start using chemical media.
When I was doing research about this, I remember a few discussions about seahorse gills being sensitive to GFO in particular. I couldn't find any hard evidence or anything scientific to back it up (as so many discussions around here are based just on just experiences)... If it's something that you could have a concern about, then I would use another phosphate remover that doesn't rely on ferric oxide.
With all that said, I've seen seahorse tanks that use GFO with no reports of ill effects.
When I was doing research about this, I remember a few discussions about seahorse gills being sensitive to GFO in particular. I couldn't find any hard evidence or anything scientific to back it up (as so many discussions around here are based just on just experiences)... If it's something that you could have a concern about, then I would use another phosphate remover that doesn't rely on ferric oxide.
With all that said, I've seen seahorse tanks that use GFO with no reports of ill effects.
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