Lanthanum Chloride Use

[Luke Schnabel]

Hey Randy!
I recently purchased a bottle of Lanthanum Chloride to aid in removing phosphates. This is the exact bottle I bought.
https://www.amazon.com/WQA-Certifie...1485740965&sr=8-6&keywords=lanthanum+chloride
I did a fair bit of research and generally know how to use this stuff. (First time using it though) Do you have any recommendations?

 

[sk8ter20art]

I cant give you direct dosing amounts. But i do know its best to add to your sump slowly. Too much concentration at once can harm fish.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I'd just search on how others have used it. I don't have a specific recommendation except dose upstream of a mechanical filter like a sock or sand filter, if this is an operating reef tank.

 

[pickupman66]

I dose it occasionally on my system. I have about 80 gallons total water volume. I dose maybe .5ml to 1ml total when I do. It is very powerful. I believe most products state that it is 1ml per 10 gal to reduce phospate by 1ppm. when we go to move .1ppm, you need to be very careful.

Also, do it very slowly. you dont want to strip it all at once because it will shock the corals.

 

[Luke Schnabel]

I've seen a lot of cases where people are dripping it right into the filter socks. Now do you drip it right out of the bottle or do you guys dilute the solution using RODI water?
I've been blowing through my GFO trying to keep my PO4 down and thought if I start using this as well it will help keep them lower for cheap.

 

[motortrendz]

I've used it in the past and dripped it I to the skimmer effluent through a small hole drilled in the cover. I've also dripped it into a filter sock. Both had good results. I believe the dilution was 5ml of lanthanum to 1000ml of ro/di.

 

[docs911]

When I did use lanthium for the display, I put 10 cc in a liter IV bag and dripped it very slowly in a filter sock in the sump. I used a MJ1200 to pump sump water into the sock.

 

[Luke Schnabel]

I have a mixture of 5ml to 750ml of RODI. (Only spare bottle I had to store it for now) I will be hooking up an IV bag and drop right into filter sock for constant use.
I took an tritation syringe and dripped some into the filter sock last night and this morning to try it out. The filter socks didn't clog up as much as I thought. Then I took 0.1 ml of the the seaKlear straight, put it directly into my herbie overflow drain and the sock in my sump was almost clogged within 2 min.

 

[Breadman03]

I diluted about 3 ml into about 2 or 3 gallons of RODI, then used an Aqualifter to dose it over about a day into a fine filter sock.

 

[427HISS]

I'd only,........use the Lanthanum Chloride made by,... ATM ! ;)

 

[Dr. Reef Verified Sponsor]

i use is daily. i have it on a doser. but i use the seaklear LC for aquarium which is a diluted version of what you have.
I mix 1oz in 1 gal of RODI water and dose 540ml per day which makes the gal last 7 days and keeps my tanks phos under 0.03 (hanna ULR)
I run it through a pump which is running 24/7 pumping sump water through a 3 chamber reactor. 1st chamber is empty for reaction, 2nd with floss 3rd with 5 micron sediment filter (changed every 15 days).