Kent Phosphate Sponge, Help!!

[Roberto CRC]

Hi friends, Some have used or currently use this product from the Kent brand?

What experiences have on corals reactions?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Are you having a problem with it?

The only risks that I know of are phosphate dropping too fast, and release of aluminum, which sometimes can irritate soft corals.

 

[Roberto CRC]

Are you having a problem with it?

The only risks that I know of are phosphate dropping too fast, and release of aluminum, which sometimes can irritate soft corals.

No Randy, not yet I have problems, but I have not used it.

In another tread you recommended me to lower my phosphates because I have no room to use a reactor GFO.

Since I bought it and I deliver it tomorrow or Wednesday if all goes well, but wanted to know if anyone has used that experience has because as I read on the internet using aluminum soft corals damaged.

When it is said irritate soft corals, are damage or death only for a few hours or days the coral reacts adversely?

 

[Roberto CRC]

I am viewing the Kent web page, http://www.kentmarine.com/products/kent-phos-sponge.htm and reads as follows: "KENT MARINE PHOSPHATE SPONGE quickly adsorbs phosphates in fresh and saltwater aquariums. Beads are cracked to expose more surface area and increase efficiency! Will not release soluble aluminum compounds into the aquarium."


Will be a sales strategy, or will be tested?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Folks like Kent and Seachem felt comfortable making such claims when only I and a very few others used the right tools to detect aluminum. Seachem, remarkably, used a method with a stated limit of detection higher then the amount I detected, and saw none, and concluded "None Released. Randy was wrong!" lol

Now, happily, many folks can test for aluminum with Triton tests and they can see for themselves. It will release some, but not necessarily an amount that is a problem. A few folks see corals such as leathers close for a while. If that happens, stop using it or reduce the dose. It is a temporary effect, at least as I have seen.

Be sure to rinse off any dust before use.

 

[Roberto CRC]

ok perfect Randy , thanks for the answers . when I arrive I will use it by placing it in the mesh more or less at 8 pm and measure fosfatas before use and at 10 am again.

Depending on the second measurement so voya remove or leave approximately another 10 hours.

These time intervals will be so because it is the time when I sleep and then work.