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Discussing Phosphate Removers

saltkreep88

saltkreep88

2-3 years and have trouble with nothing. If you read into the articles to cause that amount of leaching you would need to ran over 50 gallons of phosguard in your tank haha
 
trivan

trivan

Mike, I thought read in your 210 build your running the NaturReef reactor (or was that Spotter), why not use the Phosgone?
 
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mnat

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Yes I am still running the phosguard and I run it in a reactor. It does a great job, but if you remember from my TOT thread, my rock was leaching large amounts of phosphates. The phosgon was sucking it up, but it just kept coming out. The hope is to run a lot less of it and eventually none of it because of the reactor. I would recommend the phosgone though.
 
spotter

spotter

Im using the NatureReef Reactor and love it. Its definitely an investment but I dont have the headaches associated with the cost of gfo, replacing it or the worry of replacing too much at once and stripping the nutrients out of the water. Since my new tank has been up and running, I've only done 3 water changes in 3 months and plan on doing one more next month only because I have some salt left over and want to use it before anything happens to it. My no3 has been steady at 5ppm and po4 was solid at .03 ppm for 4 weeks straight and just made a drop to .01 ppm. I am only doing one flush a day and I have the ability to cut back on the amount of nitragone and phosphagone gets dosed daily into the reactor. I calculated the cost savings on salt and gfo based on what I think my normal usage would be and figure the reactor will take me about 12 months to recoup my initial investment.
 
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