kent marine phosphate sponge problems

hammerswinger · 01/02/2007, 05:50 PM

anyone have any negative experiences with kent phosphate sponge? i just put some in a phos ban reactor on my 4 year old 26 bow and i came home today and my red mushroom has turned brownish and my kenya tree has shriveled up. I have been in the hobby along time so the tank is perfect and has been thriving for 4 years. went from small frags to totally covered rock work!! I thought the kent spoonge was not aluminum oxide and would not bother soft corals. I put a 50/50 mix of kent P04 sponge and kent activated carbon in the reactor and it is fed by a mini jet at about 60 gph. remora skimmer w/mj1200, nano stream 6025. star polyps are good everything else is rough looking.

t11t5 · 01/04/2007, 02:02 AM

try this stuff. PÃ›RA PhosLock
My friend had the same prob then switched to this and it works great..

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Peter Eichler · 01/04/2007, 02:30 AM

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Originally posted by hammerswinger
anyone have any negative experiences with kent phosphate sponge? i just put some in a phos ban reactor on my 4 year old 26 bow and i came home today and my red mushroom has turned brownish and my kenya tree has shriveled up. I have been in the hobby along time so the tank is perfect and has been thriving for 4 years. went from small frags to totally covered rock work!! I thought the kent spoonge was not aluminum oxide and would not bother soft corals. I put a 50/50 mix of kent P04 sponge and kent activated carbon in the reactor and it is fed by a mini jet at about 60 gph. remora skimmer w/mj1200, nano stream 6025. star polyps are good everything else is rough looking.

Thje Kent stuff was aluminum oxide last I checked. If it's white rather than the rusty red color then that's your problem.

01/02/2007, 05:50 PM	#1
hammerswinger Moved On Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: USA Posts: 315	kent marine phosphate sponge problems anyone have any negative experiences with kent phosphate sponge? i just put some in a phos ban reactor on my 4 year old 26 bow and i came home today and my red mushroom has turned brownish and my kenya tree has shriveled up. I have been in the hobby along time so the tank is perfect and has been thriving for 4 years. went from small frags to totally covered rock work!! I thought the kent spoonge was not aluminum oxide and would not bother soft corals. I put a 50/50 mix of kent P04 sponge and kent activated carbon in the reactor and it is fed by a mini jet at about 60 gph. remora skimmer w/mj1200, nano stream 6025. star polyps are good everything else is rough looking.

01/04/2007, 02:02 AM	#2
t11t5 I love Bass Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,847	try this stuff. PÃ›RA PhosLock My friend had the same prob then switched to this and it works great.. http://saltycritter.com/filtermedia.htm