Gregcoyote
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The cap is just over a year old. Started as a postage stamp size frag. I am guessing the shroom count is over 500.
Have been using the Lifegard fluidized filter with purigen for a week now as per the Youtube video. First, it doesn't tumble like it does in the video. After considerable fiddling, I can get it to work okay, but all the lighter purigen particles are now in the frag tank. I even made a floss post filter to try and catch them but they are elusive. Will siphon them out but don't think they are causing any damage. I had the same problem with the BSR dual reactor, the finer purigen particles would clog the foam pads within hours. While I like regenerating purigen and it does lower organic levels, I am pretty fed up with it.
Even with the big skimmer and turf scrubber, I have so much bio load I cannot get phosphates below .2 but using GFO and purigen I get the levels down to .02 where SPS corals like it. Kind of a belt and suspenders approach. Natural methods first with chemical filtration catching what's left.
I really like this idea because tumbling purigen in the BRS reactor is problematic. This looks easy to replace the purigen and looks like it should work. The filter is only $65 so I am going to try it. Love that purigen but it's light as snow.
gravereaper0 said:The problems I been seeing is even with weekly WC my nitrates are over 40ppm. That's in my little 20 gallon housing 4 goldies n is filtered by a Fluval 306 which is packed with bio media. I even have a couple of bio media bags in the tank, I'm seeding em to kick start the cycle in the 90 gallon when its up n running. So what if I ran a reactor just like in that video and have the little power head for it in the return pump section of the sump?