Blue Life Phosphate Rx

LaCl3 .. much, MUCH better than GFO, with the caveat that you _really_ need to watch what the heck you're doing. Back off on the recommended dosage by about 50%, particularly in nano and pico tanks. Is this stuff a miracle? No, it's chemistry, and it does a great job of dropping excess phosphate out of solution. Aim for about 0.03ppm phosphates, as they *are* required by corals. Don't drop your phosphates like a rock though. Use smaller dosages than recommended. You'll prevent creating a shock condition for both your corals and your fish. Just stay on the course recommended in the documentation, but with reduced dose quantity and you'll have algae under control in no time. Just keep in mind what I've said above. If you screw up the dosages on the high side, you can and will likely wipe out fish, inverts, and a good number of corals.

I have 150 gal saltwater tank with a 55 gal sump and figure treatments at 120 gal. After reading other reviews regarding fish stress I used less than what the instructions indicated (60 drops instead of 72 or more). I put the drops in right next to my protein skimmer as instructed. I also did it at night after the light were off as a Youtuber recommended. My Seachem test indicated that I went from 3.0 to 1.0, wow! So then I just did 30 drops the next night. After a couple more times of 30 drops I am basically at zero phosphates. ASLO I recommend getting a Salifert test kit, the Seachem kit I have never got to the light yellow color to indicate .01 or less, it kept looking like .5 to 1.0 so I may have kept treating when I didn't need to.

Lowers phosphates easily on my reef aquarium

This is a good product, but it's important to know that it has its downsides. It will bind to phosphates in your reef tank, which you then remove via skimming or with a 10 micron filter sock. I used it after a fish died within my aquascape that I could not remove. I added extra GFO, but was battling algae that coincided with the fish death. It's very easy to use and works well, the Phosphate RX. However, it will lower your alkalinity. In my SPS tank, which I keep at a moderately high alkalinity, no matter how much extra alkalinity component of the 2-part I added or how much I upped my dosing, I just could not maintain alk levels above ~7.5dKH. I usually keep my alk around 9, and my SPS were very unhappy that it could not be kept stable while using this product. Finally, beware that this may cause some "frosty" precipitate on your glass, which can be a little hard to scrape off. It's a great product, but you have to be very careful about monitoring your alkalinity while using it.

Product works for phosphates.Be aware though, if you also have any red planaria (flatworms) in your tank, a side effect of lanthanum appears to be eradication of flatworms. In fact, it seems to work better than specific products such as Flatworm eXit and Flatworm RX in my experience.In my 80 gallon tank, I tested Phosphate RX with only 8 drops. Within 24 hours I had a ton of dead flatworms. I had specifically avoided going the flatworm eXit route on this tank because I didnt want to deal with the mass die off and toxicity, and was going the natural route with wrasses.Luckily I noticed quickly the signs of the die off (skimate was redish, flatworms in my filter roller, and coral was closing up). I quickly added carbon in my reactor and did a water change. Everything appears to be ok now, but beware! If you have flatworms, this does seem to kill them! A potential benefit but be ready to deal with that just as you would with flatworm killers.

Good news is that it does bring phosphates down. My issue is that I've had some fish loss as I've used it. Perhaps its coincidental (these things happen in a reef tank) but I can't quite give it full marks since over the two weeks I've dosed with it (4 times total) I've seen fish die off within a couple of days in two of them. My previously bulletproof school of 10 chromies has dropped to 6, I lost a black cap baslett, a blue-side fairy wrasse and a melanaurus wrasse that had been in there for a couple of years and was healthy as a horse. The melanaurus picked up an exposed sore that almost looked like a bacterial infection shortly after dosing and never recovered; not sure what happened to the others as they just vanished overnight. Hard to chalk up the melanaurus's symptoms to this product but felt I should mention it as the timing is...suspicious.It does work, at least when combined with my GFO reactor. It didn't bring it down the full .5 PPM that a dose suggested; more in the .35 range as tested by a colorimeter (+/- .04). But if you have any smaller, more delicate fish that you're particularly attached to...I'd maybe just stick with a GFO reactor and frequent water changes for a bit to try to get a handle on it. If you're in a pinch and absolutely need the phosphates down immediately, give it a shot, especially if you have larger and more hardy fish.

100% recomendado.

I have a very full tang tank and as such, I feed a lot of algae and had been spending a lot of time and money battling phosphate with all other solutions available. This is defintiely the easiest and cheapest solution and really the only easy solution which will get phosphate to 0 but do your research first. I use a 5 micron filter sock (from amazon) with all doses. I started with 1/4 the required dose on my 150 gallon, then 1/2 the dose and the max I ever used was 3/4 the suggested dose. Just use sparingly and do the research first! It will get you to 0 but you dont need to do it all at once.