Phosphate removal
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biophilia
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Lanthanum chloride is really easy to use - especially if you are able to add it to your water prior to adding it to the tank. Just figure out the required dose, dilute with water, and drip slowly into a 5-10 micron filter sock. Some people (myself included) dose it directly to the tank as a means to bind PO4. I just dilute it and drip it slowly into the neck of my skimmer.
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biophilia
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Also, are you sure you actually have significant PO4 making its way through the RO and that it's not just a test kit error? Lots of phosphate kits can't reliably measure really low concentrations.
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Do you have a refugium set up? How about a sump?
I have a small system (40g cube DT and 40g sump). But I took part of my sump and turned it into a refugium by adding some macroalgae. It grows pretty well and my nitrates and phosphates are always very close to zero.
I have a small system (40g cube DT and 40g sump). But I took part of my sump and turned it into a refugium by adding some macroalgae. It grows pretty well and my nitrates and phosphates are always very close to zero.
jtl
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Find the root cause of high PO4 (usually too much food) and correct it. To get it down fast run GFO. I keep my PO4 and NO3 pretty low, but not so low to ****** coral coloration, low enough to not grow chaeto in my refugium but also no hair algae in the DT.
