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Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:12 am
by RedPeasant
Saw this on another forum regarding removal of nitrate and phosphate with algae. Useful for both SW and FW tanks

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/sh ... hp?t=45873

ps: if providing links to another forum broke any rules, moderators please close it.

Re: Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:52 am
by Nick
Looks cool, I have way too much algae in the nanoreef I'm setting up for the girlfriend, and a large baffled off section I may be able to install a version of this in.

Re: Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:19 am
by Agnate
RedPeasant wrote:ps: if providing links to another forum broke any rules, moderators please close it.
Some forums actually prohibit this? Yeesh. If you have to *restrict* users from posting links to other forums in fear of losing them, then you clearly aren't focusing your efforts in the right area of customer retention. :lol:


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Wow, this scrubber looks AWESOME! I'm definitely going to building one for both my marine and freshwater tank! :D

Re: Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:59 pm
by goby1kenobi
Just found out my freshly-mixed 1.004 water has phosphates between 1.0 and 2.0. Must look into this.

Y'know, this could work double-duty as the snail breeding tank.

Re: Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:42 am
by Pufferpunk
Many sites prohibit that but not ours! I find dosing vitamin C works quite well for phosphate/nitrate reduction.

Re: Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:07 am
by RedPeasant
Good to heard that puffer forum is not afarid of the competition. The double duty as a snail breeding tank is a really good idea. For vitamin C dosing, you use the powder form?

Re: Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:35 am
by Agnate
Yep (she told me which stuff to use, so I imagine it's the same as hers). :)