Phosphate Reactors.

[reeferaddict]

Originally Posted by Palster

I just installed one on a 90 gallon tank and was able to bring my Phosphates down from about 1 ppm to about 0.03 ppm in less than a week (I didn't test the water every day). You can actually see the Hair Algae dying off on the live rock now. Overall I am very pleased with the results however I have read that they can have adverse effects on some corals. Now if I can only get my Nitrate levels down a little bit more.

I have run both Rhowaphos and Phosban through my reactor and had better results with the Phosban... just my own experience... but it DOES completely eliminate phosphates... as for nitrates, water changes were leaving me hungry until I got my Biodenitrator which keeps my heavily stocked and fed system's nitrates at ZERO while cutting my water changes down by 75%...

[OCDP]

Cool, thanks for the input everyone.

I am definitely going to look into this further. Thanks for the link Christy, sorry I never thought to check that out... all that hard work in making a reference library and what not.. so thanks again.

What I am hoping to see , with continued water changes and sandbed cleaning, while running a reactor, is to eliminate the bits of unwanted algae. Lots of it is macro algae, which is good.. but others is bits of hair algae growing within the macro, so it doesn't look so nice.

Based on some readings though, the reactor does seem to be quite effective in removing unwanted algae.

I'll keep the thread updated and what not.. but keep posting if you have input and what not.

Thanks again to all.

[demon666]

what type of affects will it have on a system runnin a fudge with micro ???? will it kill off the micro as well?