Somebody gave me a new bottle of this phosphate remover that says 6 drops lowers phosphates 0.5 ppm for every 10 gallons and I've read this stuff works miracles. Now I have a dual reactor with gfo and a 40 gal refugium but my po4 is still 0.44 ppm and I'm nervous about trying this stuff but it claims to work in 24hrs. Any advice?
Phosphate rx?
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jsker
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The stuff works great. What it does it uses lanthanum chloride link and the phosphates bond to lanthanum Chloride. You skim and filter it out. Pull the GFO when treating. Wait a couple of days, test and treat again. I you have all kinds of cyanobacteria the cyano will give you a reading lower then what it really is. If that is the case I would treat once, wait 4 day then use a cyano remover. Wait 4 more days and test again to see where you are at. If the Phosphates are still high but you do not need to cut them by half, then use a half dose.
After treatment run a small amount of GFO and you phosphated stay within a trace to .02.
After treatment run a small amount of GFO and you phosphated stay within a trace to .02.
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I tested my po4 with my hanna which said 0.44 ppm so I tried dropping 10 drops of phosphate rx just to see if it does lower at all plus I wanna see how my livestock reacts, only difference is noticed was slightly cloudy water and my pulsing xenia shrunk slightly but I'm not worried about it and I'll test my po4 in 24hrs. Fingers crossed
HolisticBear
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There are two nice YouTube videos that talk about it. In both cases, they are using 10 micron socks (not 100) to pull the bound phosphates out of the water. I'm not saying it's necessary, but I thought it was a cool approach to drip it directly into a 10 micron sock.
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reeffish
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Last night I dosed Phosphate RX at 3 drops per gallon! Everything this morning is fine...never mess with your tank when tired! I added 600 drops to a 200 gallon system, water was cloudy but clear 16 hours later. I find it hard to believe that this killed your fish. (I did drip it into a filter sock)
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