Blue Life Phosphate Control, does it WORK?

[yiliyang]

Hi:

I recently saw this product that claims to lower the phosphate level in tanks. It is really expensive. Have you used it? Is the result good? Does it hurt anything?

It says a bottle of that solution will lower phosphate by 1 ppm in a 100 gal tank. That does not sound like a lot.

Please let me know if you have used it.

thank you.

Yili

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Got a link to it?

 

[prattreef]

This is a Lanthium chloride based product that will certainly lower phosphates as advertised. It is being used in some public aquariums ( the commercial pool supply version) successfully, but there are reports that some fish are sensitive to it. Corals and inverts seem to handle it well. Use with caution.

 

[kris]

Same stuff is used in water treatment plants. Like Randy said go extra slow.
Marine Depot has it.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

As Randy already said... I actually spoke to the owner a few weeks ago and he gave us the same info. As far as I know though, this will only lower the phosphate it doesn't eliminate the source. It's a bandaid.

 

[crox99]

Who sells it?

 

[TimberTDI]

Marine Depot has it.

JP,

RIF:biglaugh:

 

[Wes]

As far as I know though, this will only lower the phosphate it doesn't eliminate the source. It's a bandaid.

Same goes for any phosphate remover. If you have figured out how to eliminate the source of phosphates please share.

 

[fluidimagery]

CC me on that post as well. I'd love to know how to eliminate the source of phosphates as well.

 

[Dj Orion]

I just picked up a bottle of Blue Vet Phosphate Control. I allready have setup a phosban reactor with Phos lock media, and am not going to use this stuff also. I hear that it works well with phospahtes that are compounded on live rock. I seem to have this issue, so hopefully it will help my situation. I will post with my results in a lil bit.

 

[crox99]

DJ Orion

please keep us posted. I also have your same problem and I am looking for an efficent way to get rid of my PO4.

 

[Dj Orion]

DJ Orion

please keep us posted. I also have your same problem and I am looking for an efficent way to get rid of my PO4.

I def will. I am like many others on the search of the phos cure.

 

[Dj Orion]

Ok so after almost a month and a half of using the Blue vet phosphate drops daily, brand new r/o di, and a phosban reactor with pura phosloc, my hair algae issue has diminished drastically. I was looking at the tank this morning and inspecting it, and realized that most of the hair algae (if not all) was gone. I also realized that before I began these treatments, I would have to scrub algae off the glass constantly. I can now go a 2 week stretch before having to clean the glass. That is HUGE.
I am way to tired to check the phosphate levels atm, but will get on it later on today. But all of these steps def work, and the blue vet stuff IMO works like a charm.

 

[crox99]

Ok so after almost a month and a half of using the Blue vet phosphate drops daily, brand new r/o di, and a phosban reactor with pura phosloc, my hair algae issue has diminished drastically. I was looking at the tank this morning and inspecting it, and realized that most of the hair algae (if not all) was gone. I also realized that before I began these treatments, I would have to scrub algae off the glass constantly. I can now go a 2 week stretch before having to clean the glass. That is HUGE.
I am way to tired to check the phosphate levels atm, but will get on it later on today. But all of these steps def work, and the blue vet stuff IMO works like a charm.

Any new updates?

 

[Dj Orion]

Any new updates?

Ya man, the stuff really does work. I treated my 75 FOWLR trigger tank that was ridden with a seemingly endless supply of phosphates for a while now, and I tested it last week for phosphates and altho it was a crappy test, it read at zero. The fields of hair algae are all gone. I did use other methods to improve on this also, including a brand new ro/di and phosban reactor running pura phoslock, and I wash all their frozen food before feeding. The blue life stuff really does work tho. If you do a phosphate test and then dose it, and then test it the next day, your phosphate levels will have gone down. This is only a bandaid method, and if other factors are not improved, your phosphates will go back up. But as a quick and easy phosphate binding drop, it works :smile:

 

[crox99]

Ya man, the stuff really does work. I treated my 75 FOWLR trigger tank that was ridden with a seemingly endless supply of phosphates for a while now, and I tested it last week for phosphates and altho it was a crappy test, it read at zero. The fields of hair algae are all gone. I did use other methods to improve on this also, including a brand new ro/di and phosban reactor running pura phoslock, and I wash all their frozen food before feeding. The blue life stuff really does work tho. If you do a phosphate test and then dose it, and then test it the next day, your phosphate levels will have gone down. This is only a bandaid method, and if other factors are not improved, your phosphates will go back up. But as a quick and easy phosphate binding drop, it works :smile:

Thank you for the update. I might try it.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

it works well......