As the title says,
How can we strip phosphate out of a dry rock before putting it in the main tank?
People use acid, people use Lanthanum chloride and some simply cure/seed the rock but I have not been able to find a step by step guide to simply strip phosphate.
I know phosphate levels in rock or in water will always try to match itself whichever is greater so by simply placing rock in some water and using gfo or LC can start bringing phos out of rock into water. As you keep stripping water, phosphate levels from rock will reduce and eventually leach out completely.
How can we do this? Simply use rodi water?
Or saltwater?
What temp do we run?
Use power head or skimmer?
If one uses acid bath, it will only strip the top surface and not the internal locked in phosphate.
If you you LC, it will eventually get rid of all the phosphate out of the rock but how long?
Depending of amount of rock and amount of phos locked in can take upto weeks to years.
Any quicker more efficient solution?
Anyone with more details like to chime in
#reefsquad
How can we strip phosphate out of a dry rock before putting it in the main tank?
People use acid, people use Lanthanum chloride and some simply cure/seed the rock but I have not been able to find a step by step guide to simply strip phosphate.
I know phosphate levels in rock or in water will always try to match itself whichever is greater so by simply placing rock in some water and using gfo or LC can start bringing phos out of rock into water. As you keep stripping water, phosphate levels from rock will reduce and eventually leach out completely.
How can we do this? Simply use rodi water?
Or saltwater?
What temp do we run?
Use power head or skimmer?
If one uses acid bath, it will only strip the top surface and not the internal locked in phosphate.
If you you LC, it will eventually get rid of all the phosphate out of the rock but how long?
Depending of amount of rock and amount of phos locked in can take upto weeks to years.
Any quicker more efficient solution?
Anyone with more details like to chime in
#reefsquad
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