Phosphate removers for sale

[IADEM]

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Originally Posted by IADEM

Fritz Phosphate Remover is the premiere method for rapidly and permanently eliminating phosphates- at bargain pricing. Never hassle with RO again! QUOTE]

What scares me is word "Rapidly" and this is why it is Not good for reef tanks !

Yes, you are correct, most things that happen in reef tanks “rapidly” are bad for the reef. However, most is not everything.

If the phosphate remover had the power to “tear” or “forcefully remove” phosphates from preexisting chemical bonds, that would be harmful – you’d be breaking down the animals! Fortunately, it does not do that. It only removes phosphates which are not already bound chemically to something else. So it does no harm if its removal of phosphates.

It is very similar to carbon’s removal of things that discolor water or removing chlorine from water. It is more or less instantaneous removal – as soon as the carbon contacts it, it is gone. But because it only impacts free compounds in the water, it harms nothing because it does not break any preexisting chemical bonds to do so.

Hope this information helps.
Thank you

[dirtyreefer]

Don't aluminum based phosphate binders leech phosphates when exhausted?

[demon666]

i too asked him this but in the pm reply he said it wont and i think for the price of it , it wouldnt hurt to try it......jmo

[Matt]

Originally Posted by demon666

i too asked him this but in the pm reply he said it wont and i think for the price of it , it wouldnt hurt to try it......jmo

Were you quoted a price, or did you find it somehow on their antediluvian website? Is there a brick-and-mortar retail outlet associated with IADEM?

[IADEM]

Originally Posted by Matt

Were you quoted a price, or did you find it somehow on their antediluvian website? Is there a brick-and-mortar retail outlet associated with IADEM?

Sorry about the ante-diluvian website I promise that when we have some extra time we will fix it up! We are located in the North End of Edmonton and we do have a brick and mortar warehouse and manufacturing plant but there is no showroom and that is why we are not set up for walk in visits. Customers are more than welcome to visit us by appointment if they feel safer as to where and who they are dealing with specially if they are making a large purchase.

[TRS]

Iron-based media is supposed to be the best phosphate binder. There are several of them on the market today. They include ROWAphos, PhoSar, Ultra Power Phos and a few others. Based the fact that the FRITZ product is Aluminum-based and also binds silica, I would not use it. If you do attempt the FRITZ Phosphate Remover, please post your results for the benefit of others.

The aluminum dissolves and irritates corals as described in this article:

Aluminum and aluminum-based phosphate binders
http://advancedaquarist.com/issues/july2003/chem.htm

[Matt]

Originally Posted by sTang

Iron-based media is supposed to be the best phosphate binder. There are several of them on the market today. They include ROWAphos, PhoSar, Ultra Power Phos and a few others. Based the fact that the FRITZ product is Aluminum-based and also binds silica, I would not use it. If you do attempt the FRITZ Phosphate Remover, please post your results for the benefit of others.

The aluminum dissolves and irritates corals as described in this article:

Aluminum and aluminum-based phosphate binders
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/iss...ly2003/chem.htm

The link doesn't work...I found it at this url http://advancedaquarist.com/issues/july2003/chem.htm

[TRS]

Originally Posted by Matt

The link doesn't work...I found it at this url http://advancedaquarist.com/issues/july2003/chem.htm

Thanks for the correction Matt.

[demon666]

yes was quoted a price....... and yes there was no science behind what i had typed b4...... after reading that artical i wont try it........ill stick to my rowaphos..... if somebody does try it let us know might be ok for a fowlr steup?????

[dirtyreefer]

Originally Posted by demon666

i too asked him this but in the pm reply he said it wont and i think for the price of it , it wouldnt hurt to try it......jmo

LOL, "it won't". There's some good science behind that explanation