Caribsea Phos Buster Pro???

[SoLiD]

Has anyone heard of this stuff. It's kinda pricey but it does claim that 8 oz. removes at least 1.5 ppm of phosphate in 250 gallons of water. That's a ton of phosphate. Does anyone know how it does that, and has anyone used it personally. I wonder if this means that phosphate reactors will be a thing of the past.

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~idproduct~CS18508.html

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~idproduct~CS8508.html

-David

[BigKGlen]

I've used it with great success. It's not being manufactured anymore (so I'm told), but I have access to small quantities of it.

[SoLiD]

Why aren't they making it anymore? Marine Depot has it as a new item???

[Richard]

Does anyone know how it does that


It's a Lanthanum based product. What it does is precipitate phoshphate out of the water. So it doesn't actually remove phosphate since it is still in your tank. It may be released again later or the precipitated po4 may still be bioavailable to some algaes.

I've heard of mixed results from it. It seems to irritate some corals/inverts. Here's a review with more info...
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1191983&highlight=phosbuster

[Richard]

And here's another one...
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1229786

[SoLiD]

Great Stuff Richard. Thanks for that. :bigsmile:

[JimD]

"bioavailable" Is that a new word? I like it! lol

[Richard]

"bioavailable" Is that a new word? I like it! lol

It's a pretty good word, I like it too LOL. I can't take credit for it though.


Definitions of bioavailable on the Web:

The ability of a drug or other substance to be absorbed and used by the body. Orally bioavailable means that a drug or other substance that is ...
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The extent to which a nutrient can be used by the body.
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The state of a toxicant such that there is increased physicochemical access to the toxicant by an organism. The less the bioavailability of a toxicant, the less its toxic effect on an organism.
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A substance in a chemical and physical form that allows it to affect organisms or be accumulated by them.
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In pharmacology, bioavailability is used to describe the fraction of an administered dose of unchanged drug that reaches the systemic circulation, one of the principal pharmacokinetic properties of drugs. ...
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"physicochemical", now that's a dam good word!