phosphate control by blue life

anyone ever use this product?

 

Hi Joey I have never used it , but a few of the guys on here often recomend a product called Phosban - so if you are looking for a phospate remover, maybe you could locate Phosban and be sure others have used it and its OK

 

I have used about all of them and Ferric Oxide media is by far the better of them all .. The aluminum oxide is O.K but will not totally keep the PO4 bound up 100% and many hard corals where bothered by the Aluminum oxide . Then as for Ferric oxide I used to really like the brand Pura Phos Lock they where great until they reformulated it and it would break down and make a red mud /mush then tried Phosban and the Warner and something and everything else over time I have found the ROWAphos to be very consistent in the formulation and effectiveness .Time after time and until Its change I will stay with it from here on out. But you have to use a reactor with any of these medias to get full effect of the product..

 

Blue Life Phosphate Control is diluted Lanthanum Chloride. It will cause phosphates to precipitate but the problem with that is, it's still in your system. Bacteria will eventually liberate these phosphates again.

With a reactor that has an Iron Oxide media, when you replace the media, the phosphates go into the trash too.

 

Yes, I am using Pura Phoslock in my reactor. If rinsed thouroughly, you will only get a slight brown clowdy tinge to the water but it goes away in about an hour or less and is harmless.

 

Yes, just saw a product like it at my LFS and LFS buddy says it absolutely works fast and that can lead to shocking the tank. The tank (as a whole) gets used to the water chemistry, good and bad, and sudden elimination of one component can shock our inhabitants. I don't know if you can use half doses and go slow or not.

 

thanks a alot.

 

Hmm that's interesting... I was thinking about buying some but maybe I won't now.

 

I used it, you need a good skimmer to pull it out of your water column once it binds the PO4. I also have used Rowaphos, which is really good stuff when used in a reactor, like Tangster mentioned. I used it in a 2 Little Fishies PO4 reactor.

 

I have a phos reactor running but thought this might help starve my dinoflagellates. I still might try it.