Aquaripure?

Has anyone heard of these filters? From looking the the website and reading about the product they are supposed to remove all organic material and nitrates from your system. Could this do away with a protein skimmer? Could this stop all of the water changes? What is your guys opinion?

Here is a link to the website. http://www.aquaripure.com/index.php?route=common/home

 

What's so great about THEIR beneficial bacteria. Is theirs better than Live rock? Not too sure. Maybe helps with a FO system. I'm skeptical.

 

Anaerobic bacteria is what does away with nitrates. I am not sure that Live Rock allows for this type of bacteria to grow, as it only grows in an oxygen depleted environment, like a DSB. The company says you never have to change the filters, and you only have to put a few drops of alcohol or simple syrup in them once a week. Also the small filter is like doing a 35% water change every week.

 

I dunno. I always stand by the "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" motto. If its really that effective, why is it not a standard practice? Why have I not even heard of them before now? Maybe it works. I say if you have the "spare" money to try it then you would be doing the community a favor. Test and make a thread about it.

Edit: just watched his video. I am not entirely familiar with the process but this looks to me like its vodka dosing. not sure that its worth the money.

 

I could not afford to try this product. The price of a small size filter is 250 dollars although if it took weekly water changes out of play, then it would be worth the money. I was doing more reading and the water drips out at 2 drops per second. Which they calculate to be about a 20g a week water change.

 

check this out http://melevsreef.com/node/184

 

I have done some reading about Vodka Dosing as well. I just am not completely sold on it yet.

 

with Vodka dosing you have to do it everyday, but with this filter you only have to feed it once or twice a week.

 

First off if you have high nitrates you need to establish, why? feeding less and regular water changes may solve your problems.

As for this product I dont understand why they are saying you can do less water changes, personally I dont do water changes just to remove nitrates I do water changes to put back in the elements absorbed by the corals etc.

 

+1 to "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is". In this hobby I believe there are no shortcuts and being in it for the long run with dedication and maintenance is what I would stick with. The vodka dosing is a proven method, is it something I am going to be doing with any of my tanks ever? More than likely not. I rather find the root cause then adding something else into my water but that's just me. I would stick to a proven protein skimmer when necessary and I am a firm believer in water changes. WC's are beneficial in so many ways (we won't get into that due to that we could discuss that in a separate thread) and sometimes many things can't beat a simple WC. Personally I would not be spending my money one of those systems. I think that if they were that great then a lot more people would be using them on the forums and reporting back.