Phosphate Remover

[alrha]

I might need to strap them to one of the sides of the stand as opposed to hanging them off of my sump.

can also stand on the floor

I am assuming that they can not be mounted horizontally, but need to be vertical?

correct

 

[alrha]

this might be a silly question but can you have phosban and carbon in one reactor??

you can run Phosguard (by Seachem) with carbon

 

[Deanos]

Than should I use half of the recommended dosage for the first time?

I did initially. Nowadays, I double the dosage since I've been running Phosban for months now. I guess it all depends on how high your levels are.

 

[crox99]

I did initially. Nowadays, I double the dosage since I've been running Phosban for months now. I guess it all depends on how high your levels are.

I never tested my water for phosphates. When Ronen came to my apartment to see the tank he said that I should run a phos reactor.

 

[meschaefer]

this might be a silly question but can you have phosban and carbon in one reactor??

You can but I don't think thats a good idea.

Why don't you think that this is a good idea. If you run half the recommended amount for your 140, how much would I need for my 65, and what would be wrong with filling the extra space with carbon. Lets say I use equal volumes of carbon and phosphate remover. Why couldn't/shouldn't I use the carbon on the bottom and phosphate remover on the top, and seperate the phosphate remover from the carbon with some polyfilter or something else.

 

[Domboski]

The carbon tends to need replacement much quicker than the phosphate removing media. It is more of a convenience factor in my opinion.

 

[fritz]

Agreed, I change my carbon bi-weekly and my rowaphos monthly. I don't think running them in the same reactor is a good idea although I do know people that run puragen in the top part and rowaphos in the bottom.

 

[Deanos]

The carbon tends to need replacement much quicker than the phosphate removing media. It is more of a convenience factor in my opinion.

Bingo!! I'm with Dom.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Why not place one of those Phosphate removing pads in your sump/fuge?

 

[meschaefer]

The carbon tends to need replacement much quicker than the phosphate removing media. It is more of a convenience factor in my opinion.

Thats the answer I was looking for.

 

[noodleman]

The carbon tends to need replacement much quicker than the phosphate removing media. It is more of a convenience factor in my opinion.

sooo a lazy person has no problem then :lol2:

 

[cali_reef]

Why don't you think that this is a good idea. If you run half the recommended amount for your 140, how much would I need for my 65, and what would be wrong with filling the extra space with carbon. Lets say I use equal volumes of carbon and phosphate remover. Why couldn't/shouldn't I use the carbon on the bottom and phosphate remover on the top, and seperate the phosphate remover from the carbon with some polyfilter or something else.

You want the phosban to "fluidized" a little to ensure the media does not clump up after few days and you should never let carbon move around in the reactor since carbon breaks up into dust easily. You can try to find a happy medium, I just don't think it can be done with the pump\reactors on the market.

I suggest you start with half of the recommended dosage and increase it slowly if you feel there is a need.

 

[meschaefer]

I thought of that and that is why I would have put the carbon on the bottom, with some poly filter above it. The carbon would act as a difusser and wouldn't compact the phosban. Doesn't really matter though, as it appears that the rate at wich you would need to change in comparison to the phosban creates a problem.

I think that I am going to pick up a phosban reactor and some phosban to get myself started. I will need a maxijet 400 as well. I just replaced all my maxijets with tunze nano streams, I was cleaning them out and wanted to bleach them. I got busy and forgot about them, when I tried to use them to mix some makeup water the impellers disintegrated.

 

[fritz]

local vendor and MR sponsor
http://www.reefexotics.com/phosban_combo.htm

 

[meschaefer]

Thanks, I have purchased from Anthony before. I will drop him a line when I am ready to order.

 

[noodleman]

anyone tried the dr. foster&smith versions??
phospure
phospure plus zeolite & carbon

 

[nyfireman3097]

Ok im new with phosban reactors. I am using phosloc in mine. It reccommends 1 tbs every 20g of reef so I have about 100g in my system. I use between 5 and 6 tbs in mine now. What I am tring to get at here lol is as I add more fish to my tank should I also add more media ? As of now my PO4 is @ .02 which is very low but I do not want it to go up.

 

[meschaefer]

I contacted Anthony (Reef Exotics) and I am picking up a phosban reactor, some phosban and a maxijet 400 tomorrow morning. Thanks to the other thread , I will pick up some 1/4" ID tubing from HD.

I am only going to run phosban in it, no carbon. I was going to pick up an extra reactor to run carbon, but decided to wait until I have had a chance to play with the reactor a little bit and get a better feel for it, before making a decision on how I want to run carbon.

The only thing I can't figure out is how to decide when to change out the phosban. Most threads I have read, indicate that it should be changed when phosphates are on therise, or when the phosphate level of the water leaving the reactor, equals the phosohate level of the water entering the reactor. I do not have any measurable phosphate levels in my tank so this will not work for me. I will probably end up changing it out on a monthly basis. If it wasn't for the appearance of some algae, I wouldn't even know that I had any phosphates in my tank.

 

[cali_reef]

Matt, buy one of these before you spend the $ on the reactor ..

 

[fritz]

I change mine once a month, right before going to Alex M. Tepper, another MR sponsor!