Koddie Doo
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Phosphate RX
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Koddie Doo
Czar of All ThingsAwesome
I am suffering from a bubble algae outbreak that I am looking to my heavy hand feeding. I am cutting that back, but would like to get my PO4 down. Think this will help
Koddie Doo
Czar of All ThingsAwesome
Wow. Do you do this all the time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xilqKzoOgBE
I stoped running GFO after I watched this video. Dont pay big money for the aquarium labled do like Pife says and use Lanthanum Chloride AKA SeaClear for pools. Much cheaper and does the same thing.
I dont dilute when I dose I just drop it into high flow.
Bubble algea can live in very low nutirent systems. You may want to get a bucket of emeralds to clear out the bulk of it then go to weekly manual removal using rigid airline as a bubble sucker upper.
I stoped running GFO after I watched this video. Dont pay big money for the aquarium labled do like Pife says and use Lanthanum Chloride AKA SeaClear for pools. Much cheaper and does the same thing.
I dont dilute when I dose I just drop it into high flow.
Bubble algea can live in very low nutirent systems. You may want to get a bucket of emeralds to clear out the bulk of it then go to weekly manual removal using rigid airline as a bubble sucker upper.
South City
New member
Many of the threads that discuss using lanthium chloride seem to dose it into a filter sock in order to collect and remove the precipitate that is formed when it bonds with phosphate.
Is it okay to just dose it directly into the tank? Won't the precipitate break down and release it's phosphate if it's not removed from the tank?
Is it okay to just dose it directly into the tank? Won't the precipitate break down and release it's phosphate if it's not removed from the tank?
Need a filter sock and or skimmer to remove the precipitate that is true. But, you can drip it in the main display and the water gets cloudy then it is removed as it runs through the sock and skimmer.
The video I linked explains the process starting at 3:15. Melve is an OG reefer and I trust his advice as he has proven his success time and again.
The video I linked explains the process starting at 3:15. Melve is an OG reefer and I trust his advice as he has proven his success time and again.
Tigé21v
Active member
LaCl does a good job of getting things down to .03 or so. After that, it seems it starts to negatively affect alk levels (or so they say).
Gey the sea kleer. Way cheaper. Pool place on Dorsett just easy of 270 is where I got mine.
As far as releasing back into the water column, it is said it only happens at low ph levels, lower than would ever be in a marine aquarium.
But it has been documented to have a negative effect on some fish, mostly tangs if I remember, if you don't catch all the flocculate. It irritates their gills. Can also cause a white haze on the glass that can be hard to remove.
Some people have used a brs reactor packed with floss . They feed the LaCl into the feed line of the pump.
I dilute it at a 100:1 ratio and dose 1 ml of solution every 15 minutes, into a 30 g can with a power head in it. can is probably fed 100 or so gph. It gives the LaCl time to work on 30 gallons of water instead of just what is contained in a filter sock. The can's outlet is fed through a 5 or 10 micron filter sock. Sock usually clogs every 3 or 4 days .
Gey the sea kleer. Way cheaper. Pool place on Dorsett just easy of 270 is where I got mine.
As far as releasing back into the water column, it is said it only happens at low ph levels, lower than would ever be in a marine aquarium.
But it has been documented to have a negative effect on some fish, mostly tangs if I remember, if you don't catch all the flocculate. It irritates their gills. Can also cause a white haze on the glass that can be hard to remove.
Some people have used a brs reactor packed with floss . They feed the LaCl into the feed line of the pump.
I dilute it at a 100:1 ratio and dose 1 ml of solution every 15 minutes, into a 30 g can with a power head in it. can is probably fed 100 or so gph. It gives the LaCl time to work on 30 gallons of water instead of just what is contained in a filter sock. The can's outlet is fed through a 5 or 10 micron filter sock. Sock usually clogs every 3 or 4 days .
Pife
Active member
I have never had this issue.
Pife
Active member
Yes. Pm if you want to talk more about it.
Tigé21v
Active member
There's a thread on here started back in 2008 about using Sea Kleer. Still an active thread. It's a long one. Unfortunately, as with most of the informative threads, it has fallen prey to Immediategratificationism- lots of good info buried in the piles of pages of people (who couldn't take the time to read the thread) asking the same questions over and over. I wish someone could have the time to make a bullet point sheet for the thread.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1474839&highlight=lanthanum+chloride
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1474839&highlight=lanthanum+chloride
