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09-24-2005, 03:59 AM
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Phosban Reactor
I hooked my new phosban reactor up tonight but as it started to fill with water, it didn't look like it was mixing with the media very well. The water inside the reactor became immediately brown and merky. Is this just because I didn't run the media under water first? Would it be bad to release this into the water?
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09-24-2005, 05:15 AM
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Jason, I just ran mine externally in a bucket and changed the water every 5 minutes or so for about 20 mins until the water ran clear even on startup.... I don't think that stuff will harm your tank, but it sure couldn't look great!
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09-24-2005, 03:42 PM
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i ran phosban in a hang on aquaclear. and it worked great. The instructions said not to rinse out the bag so I let her run as is. Water was a little brown, but it cleared up in moments. Phosbad works great for any one with a phosphate problem, or cyano as a direct result of phosban
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09-25-2005, 03:32 AM
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Well ultimately it should starve any exisiting algae, that uses phosphates, out of existence. I don't know what happens when that algae "melts away" (or whatever it does) into the water column and adds to nutrients, I assume its just skimmed out.
I take it you're using phosban in the reactor? I bought one about a month ago and used rowaphos in it for 3-4 days. I had 4 SPS frags RTN completely and two more had tissue recession from the bottom up when I took the reactor offline, once I did that the tissue stopped receeding immediately.  Right now I have carbon running in the reactor and it works awesome  I may try the rowaphos again but bring the reactor online slowly to acclimate the corals to less phosphates or whatever change they didn't like in the water. Either that or I'll be trying phosban soon. Christy 
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09-25-2005, 03:39 AM
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I've never had a problem with hair algae (knocking on wood) But it worked great for cyano. I have a tang and two rabbitfish that do great work at any algae on the glass. Last time I had a cyano outbreak and it was bad, I shut down the lighs for 2 days. Kept them down to ~5hrs a day and ran phosban, after the 2 days, the cyano was completely gone, it had turned into what looked like detrius, the crabs and such had it cleaned up in a day and the skimmer was full, but I havent seen a hint of it since. (again knocking on the damn wood)
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09-25-2005, 02:36 PM
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09-25-2005, 03:40 PM
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yes I rinsed the living crap out of it and then let about 5 gallons of water run through it before I let the effluent go back into the tank.
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