Purigen and chemi-pure in cannister?

[jcono]

Hello-

I seem to always have 20-30 ppm nitrates and trace phos. I have an extra Eheim cannister. It was recommended to me to use the Eheim with a bag of Purigen and Chemi-pure to help reduce -ates and phosphates.

What do you all think? Do I just need a small bag of each? I could also add some LR rubble?

Thanks for your help!!

Jano

 

[OldManOfTheSea]

I seem to always have 20-30 ppm nitrates and trace phos

a bag of Purigen and Chemi-pure to help reduce -ates and phosphates

What do you all think?

Your watsing your money, do just large water changes and control your not over feeding your tank.

Buddy

 

[Snoogans]

I was having heaps of trouble with nitrates, tried a few things including purigen and LR rubble. Ended up removing everything from my cannister. Now essentially is just for flow and water volume. Since then nitrates have been zero. Wish I had done it on day one.

Overfeeding was also probably an issue for me in the past

 

[Pufferpunk]

I add Purigen to my mixed reef tanks to prevent chemical warfare. I do not believe they do anything for reducing nitrate or phosphate. They work the same as carbon, except they do not remove essencial elements & they are rechargable (& less messy to work with).

If all else has been tried, then adding vitamin C can reduce your nitrate to 0.

 

[excuzzzeme]

Sometimes carbon can cause phosphates to rise. I no longer use carbon. No more problems!

 

[OldManOfTheSea]

What it is, we all for the most part in our early years in the marine hobby buy things we though that would help us in having a great aquarium. But in the long period of this, all we need to do is keep up on our maintenance of the tanks we have. We all have some different or even some of the same ideas in how to best do this, but the bottom line to this is if we let up our aggressiveness in maintaining our tanks, we soon learn that were a minor problem before too long.

I am just one of many who been there and done it for a good many years. Now im some update to what is going on with my tanks, but im going to hold off on that until I can say something more differently to when they will begin. So we all at one time or another, brought products that were said to help better your water quality. I believe at some point of those products, they do help a little if that. But the bottom line to those and so many other aquarium products, their not worth the money you spend on them.

As it is, the hobby happens to be expensive enough and as everything else we do in shopping for food or clothes, even some electronic items.We need too all get some excellent input on them before trying them, and calling the manufactures helps none in doing this, they we always tell you good things about what their trying to sell.

So as in products for your tanks, what if freshwater or marine. Some of your best input on these, just happens to be right here. And if many can not answer it here, you can ask that question at one of your other favorite forum links. Know this, we as an aquarium hobbyist, we have nothing to gain from you doing better other then that we gain a happy smile about that we managed to offered you some assistance. Your LFS, happens to be one of the worst places in most cases to ask any questions.

You start asking your LFS questions for what is best to buy, they will offer you many things that you can buy from them, and the majority of those items will be just like two items that this thread had started out asking about. But of course we find or learn of many aquarium products, and we are always looking for something that would work better for our tanks. But for most of what you see out there, its buyer beware, its not worth the money you spent on it.

Buddy ><}}}}">

 

[Amphiprion]

I don't particularly like chemipure (because it isn't really different or more effective than the better carbons out there), but Purigen I can say is a good product. It can significantly raise ORP in dirtier tanks and can make a difference in tanks that need the extra "umph." It is up to the aquarist to determine which they would rather use, but Purigen is more effective at carbon at removing various organic compounds. Unfortunately, it will indeed remove trace elements that are organically complexed, but that is likely not much of an issue--the same goes for carbon. That being said, I still simply opt for good activated carbon (ROX 0.8) and ferric oxide hydroxide based phosphate removers. The water stays crystal clear and things seem to do well.