So hows the Cermedia marinepure testing coming along?

Cyricdark · May 7, 2017

I noticed a few episodes ago in brs investigates you said you were investigating various nitrate removal media including the cermedia marinepure block. I just ordered one of those and one of the brightwell aquatics no3 bricks from you guys today and was wondering how the testing was coming along and when we can expect to see the episode on it?

Daniel@R2R · May 7, 2017

Cool! I hope siporax is part of that testing! I'd like to see how it measures up to MarinePure

JaimeAdams · May 8, 2017

I am interested to know as well.

Reef man 89 · May 9, 2017

I am waiting to hear the out come of this test. I have 2 marine pure blocks in my sump and don't know if it's the blocks or my bio pellet reactor that's keeping my nitrates at a steady 5ppm.

randyBRS · May 9, 2017

Hey guys!

This one is still ongoing, as we continue to learn more about nitrates and accurately testing for them. Right now, I believe they are working to improve the testing, given some inconclusive results they have seen thus far.

Hopefully we have this one refined and back on track soon!

-Randy

Cyricdark · May 9, 2017

Looking forward to it, I'm really hoping these bricks will help with denitrification at least half as much as the manufacturers claim. What's your personal opinion on them Randy?

805reef · May 9, 2017

+1 this would be great to know. I have one block in my sump and will get more if they prove effective.

randyBRS · May 9, 2017

Cyricdark said:
Looking forward to it, I'm really hoping these bricks will help with denitrification at least half as much as the manufacturers claim. What's your personal opinion on them Randy?

I'm pretty excited to see what happens with them as well! I'm fairly heavily invested in them providing surface area for my bare bottom 93gal cube, which has quite a bit of Marine Pure in it. Granted, that tank has a very low bioload, I still feel that they are helping. Also, I use them exclusively in the BRS Frag tanks for the only source of porous surface area and nutrients remain fairly low in there.

-Randy

Cyricdark · May 9, 2017

randyBRS said:
I'm pretty excited to see what happens with them as well! I'm fairly heavily invested in them providing surface area for my bare bottom 93gal cube, which has quite a bit of Marine Pure in it. Granted, that tank has a very low bioload, I still feel that they are helping. Also, I use them exclusively in the BRS Frag tanks for the only source of porous surface area and nutrients remain fairly low in there.

-Randy

Have you tried the brightwell aquatics no3 export bricks at all yet?

randyBRS · May 10, 2017

Cyricdark said:
Have you tried the brightwell aquatics no3 export bricks at all yet?

Nope, I haven't tested out those ones specifically just yet.

JaimeAdams · May 10, 2017

Cyricdark said:
Have you tried the brightwell aquatics no3 export bricks at all yet?

I have several customers who use those that have been very happy with their results of it lowering Nitrates in their tanks.

Cyricdark · May 12, 2017

Well I just got in one Cermedia 4" plate and one brightwell no3 brick, gonna redo my sump and remove the six year old deep sand bed that I inherited when I bought the tank already established and replace it with these, right now I've got them soaking in some water change water along with a healthy dose of vodka and some Biospira, So I guess we'll find out. Been having an ongoing nitrate issue (20-40 ppm) that seems relatively unaffected by lots of massive water changes, reduced feeding, improving refugium light, etc, so hoping these will help. I also upgraded to a much larger skimmer so if it does help I probably won't know for sure the cause, so still looking forward to the BRS investigation , hope you got some results soon.

randyBRS said:
Hey guys!

This one is still ongoing, as we continue to learn more about nitrates and accurately testing for them. Right now, I believe they are working to improve the testing, given some inconclusive results they have seen thus far.

Hopefully we have this one refined and back on track soon!

-Randy

I thought you guys had that figured out by using the red sea reagents in that 4k$ tester?

Hooloovoo · May 15, 2017

I had been thinking of giving the Brightwell NO3 brick a try before noticed a lot of negative customer reviews on BRS. They all seemed to say the same thing. Namely that the brick just disintegrated within their sump in a very short period of time. I happend by the Brightwell booth while I was at ReefAPallooza, and asked them if they felt this was due to something wrong in the way the product was being used. They said no, it was actually a problem they had in manufacturing with a bad batch of product that did not have enough of the binder component added to it. He added that they are offering to send replacements out to anyone who received one of the affected products. Just thought I would pass that along.

MatsReef · May 19, 2017

Hooloovoo said:
I had been thinking of giving the Brightwell NO3 brick a try before noticed a lot of negative customer reviews on BRS. They all seemed to say the same thing. Namely that the brick just disintegrated within their sump in a very short period of time. I happend by the Brightwell booth while I was at ReefAPallooza, and asked them if they felt this was due to something wrong in the way the product was being used. They said no, it was actually a problem they had in manufacturing with a bad batch of product that did not have enough of the binder component added to it. He added that they are offering to send replacements out to anyone who received one of the affected products. Just thought I would pass that along.

This is good to read. I've been thinking about giving one of those a try! Thanks for that info.