hi all again i just done a phosphate test and i am reading 5.0+ so i have starting using Phos-zorb havent tested since its been in (about 12hrs)

would i be better off buying a Phosphate filter or just putting a weee pouch in my filter :lol:

pouch is fine

With phostphates that high it is better to do big water changes until you get it down as it is going to take a lot of phostphate remover to reduce it.

ok will start doing changes tomorrow i will do 20ltrs per week until it drops

Fay's were that high & dropped to zero in one week with rowaphos.

omg whats that lol rowaphos

reef setup rowaphos in a fluidised reactor and his phosphates dropped heaps too. im running it now and have noticed an improvement in the last few days already.

Mine was 10+ and dropped to 0-0.25 in no time.

so where do i get one of these things from???

hollywood fish farm, $110 for 1 litre.

How long would 1 ltr last on say a 150 ltr fresh water tank?

depends on the amount of phosphates in the water, if a little, then a long time. if lots, then a shorter time from memory, it removes up to 15ppm of phosphate?

well i have done a 20% water change and it seens my phoshate has droped to 2.5 from 5.0. dont no weather its the water change thats done it or the phos-zorb but will do a weekly check now

Had the same problem.My phos was out of control.I changed thousands of litres over three months.This only reduced it to 0.5 and it would not go any lower.Then i got some phosphate killer(salifert).500mls does a 2000ltr tank for 3 months i think and it only cost $60.00.This reduced them to 0.2 within 2 weeks.It seemed to stay there so i got another one which took to unreadable.It has never come back and i change every 2 or 3 months no matter what the reading.Its cheap security and the coral looks great.

sweet where did you get that from

Hollywoods about 3 weeks back.

cool i will give them a ring tomorrow to get some on the courier cheers

whatb about all your corals dying, was that before or after you used the phospate killer???

I used salifert phosphate eliminator for 2 weeks then invested in a Deltec Fluidised Media Reactor (FR 509 holds 1.2 Ltrs of Media)

Put in 1 ltr of Rowaphos and got the result I have been waiting years for in a couple of days.

THE ANSWER IS YOU HAVE TO FLUIDISE

i dont (currently) fluidise, but am using rowaphos between a folded piece of filter wool in the output of the skimmer. after several months of brown acros', they are only now starting to colour up (after about 4-5 days use) -conincidence? perhaps. even so, fluidised reactors certainly are more efficient just cant justify the cost of one right now - especially considering what they cost for how simple they are :-? if anyone is doing another marinedepot order, let me know coz there are cheap ones on there.

ok let me know 2 i will give an order

Chimera why don't you make one? your clever and got the know how they are very simple for what they cost.

I have to run the out flow into a basket of filter wool because some Rowa still comes out.

http://www.deltecaquariumsolutions.com/Flurec.php

Clever? More like smart (arse) Thanks Fay, however I've seen that link and already started looking around for parts.

It sounds like yours is over fluidised Fay. Try throttling back the pump or reducing the flow! I will attempt to make one, I figure if I can get it cheap enough elsewhere then it will save me the time sourcing the parts. However, if i can source them cheap enough I'll make several (much like westy1 has done for his zeovit reactors) and sell them here

let me know how much

if i cant do it for under $150, i wont bother doing it at all! i'll let you know in due course...