Lets here your experiences on this filtering media. I have seen a few people post about having it and how clear the water is but does anyone have a full review? Anyone use it in an uncycled tank? How does it affect GH, KH, PO3/PO4?
grimlock3000 said:A tank that naturally cycles is more healthy then one where you are removing the ammo/ites/ates from it. Once a tank is naturally cycled, it provides a very safe and stable environment for fish to live in. What happens when the Purigen is "full" and can not absorb any further? You would get spikes all over the place. Also there is more to water changes than just removing nitrates.
A lot of media and additives promote the ability to be lazy. When it comes down to it, no water additive or filter media is a replacement for good maintenence.
You simply swap in some fresh purigen and then treat the old purigen to regenerate it back to new condition (according to the information from seachem's website).
http://www.seachem.com/en_products/product_pages/016_purigen.html
What happens when your bio-filter dies off and you get spikes all over the place with a tank full of live animals?
A filtering media could be considered to be good maintenance. Without first hand experience and qualitative data you cannot make the assertion that the water quality would be automatically worse with this filtering media as opposed to having a tank with nothing but a bacterial filtering colony.
Why bother using filter pads to trap particles? Shouldn't you just keep all material in the tank to allow bacteria to grow to decay the dead material and only change the water?
Would a filterless tank where someone does waterchanges every day be healthier than a massively filtered tank with waterchanges every two weeks?
That is why I want to see the reviews from people who have actually tried it.