Poly filter while using chemiclean?

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

This may be a silly question but one I need to ask. Can I leave poly filter in filtration if I am going to use chemiclean? I know to take carbon, chemipure etc. out.

 

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

I plan on doing a treatment tonight. Right now I have both chemipure and poly filter being used. Should I take them both out or can the poly filter be left in?

 

[mcarroll]

Good question.....I think I'd take them out, or at least plan on replacement after treatment.

Would be interesting if someone has a more definitive answer.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Good question.....I think I'd take them out, or at least plan on replacement after treatment.

Would be interesting if someone has a more definitive answer.

I think the Poly pad is a gfo.

 

[mcarroll]

Well, what I've read elsewhere is that they are an adsorber, so yeah a bit like GFO or activated carbon.

But their trick is that the adsorbent polymer is supposedly doped with seawater levels of ions, so it won't remove too much and it won't remove the wrong thing. I just can't provide more than hearsay on this....no idea where I read/heard it. Might have even been @Randy Holmes-Farley!

 

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

According to what I have read and talked to my LFS about, it does take it right back out. I learned this first hand as I had what I assumed were therapeutic levels in my quarantine but my salifert copper test showed nothing. I removed the poly filters and they were blue. Same color as the cupramine.