Hello,
I am doing a little searching around for small calcium reactor media for my second calcium reactor chamber, and was looking into CaribSea ARM Reactor Media (small).
I go to a somewhat secluded beach (only accessible by boat) at least once a week for work and collected some small shell shards. I was wondering if I could use this. It's small enough. I would still clean it, I have it soaking in RODI now.
The largest concern is phosphates. I was thinking about picking up a freshwater phosphate test, and adding lanthanum chloride as needed. Not sure how long this would take... I find it interesting that CaribSea advertises that their product doesn't contain gastropods shells, which I guess contain the most phosphates? The vast majority of the shells I'd be using are gastropods shells.
I am doing a little searching around for small calcium reactor media for my second calcium reactor chamber, and was looking into CaribSea ARM Reactor Media (small).
I go to a somewhat secluded beach (only accessible by boat) at least once a week for work and collected some small shell shards. I was wondering if I could use this. It's small enough. I would still clean it, I have it soaking in RODI now.
The largest concern is phosphates. I was thinking about picking up a freshwater phosphate test, and adding lanthanum chloride as needed. Not sure how long this would take... I find it interesting that CaribSea advertises that their product doesn't contain gastropods shells, which I guess contain the most phosphates? The vast majority of the shells I'd be using are gastropods shells.