Seachem PURIGEN it works!

[Hurst1401]

Greetings all,
I am reporting my surprise results from using Seachem Purigen. I keep large fancy goldfish and they tend to be a very messy fish, placing a high bioload on my filtration system. It is difficult to keep ahead of the Nitrates with weekly water changes unless they are very large, like over 75%. I have had to adopt a large water change schedule to keep my parameters in check. I recently ordered some new fish and was given 3 small fancy goldfish free. I was not expecting them and didn’t have the room for them. I quickly setup an old 20 gallon long and hung a penguin 350. I was looking for a way to remove nitrates from my tanks and I found Purigen. I placed 250ml (enough for 250 gallons) in my 75 gallon tank and waited. After a week of no results I was upset and threw the bag of purigen in the back of the penguin 350 and forgot about it. My tap water has high amounts of ammonia and chloramine, so when I do a water change there is already food for the nitrification process. The tank cycled in 3 weeks and 3 days ago I had very little Nitrites and 40ppm nitrates. I performed a water change and left for work. My fish are fed 3 times a day, I high protein, growth pellet food plus brine shrimp and split peas. When I came back I was expecting my nitrates to be creeping high again. I tested my water today and thought I made a mistake. I tested again and I have less than 2.0ppm nitrates! That is lower than it has ever been, EVER! It took some time for the purigen to start absorbing, and I think that it absorbs nitrates better than nitrites. The point is, it is working, it is rechargeable, it polishes water, and it doesn’t leach phosphates back into your water.
I hope this helps.
J

 

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[Hurst1401]

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[Hurst1401]

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Greetings all,
I am reporting my surprise results from using Seachem Purigen. I keep large fancy goldfish and they tend to be a very messy fish, placing a high bioload on my filtration system. It is difficult to keep ahead of the Nitrates with weekly water changes unless they are very large, like over 75%. I have had to adopt a large water change schedule to keep my parameters in check. I recently ordered some new fish and was given 3 small fancy goldfish free. I was not expecting them and didn’t have the room for them. I quickly setup an old 20 gallon long and hung a penguin 350. I was looking for a way to remove nitrates from my tanks and I found Purigen. I placed 250ml (enough for 250 gallons) in my 75 gallon tank and waited. After a week of no results I was upset and threw the bag of purigen in the back of the penguin 350 and forgot about it. My tap water has high amounts of ammonia and chloramine, so when I do a water change there is already food for the nitrification process. The tank cycled in 3 weeks and 3 days ago I had very little Nitrites and 40ppm nitrates. I performed a water change and left for work. My fish are fed 3 times a day, I high protein, growth pellet food plus brine shrimp and split peas. When I came back I was expecting my nitrates to be creeping high again. I tested my water today and thought I made a mistake. I tested again and I have less than 2.0ppm nitrates! That is lower than it has ever been, EVER! It took some time for the purigen to start absorbing, and I think that it absorbs nitrates better than nitrites. The point is, it is working, it is rechargeable, it polishes water, and it doesn’t leach phosphates back into your water.
I hope this helps.
J

 

[jschall]

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Greetings all,
I am reporting my surprise results from using Seachem Purigen. I keep large fancy goldfish and they tend to be a very messy fish, placing a high bioload on my filtration system. It is difficult to keep ahead of the Nitrates with weekly water changes unless they are very large, like over 75%. I have had to adopt a large water change schedule to keep my parameters in check. I recently ordered some new fish and was given 3 small fancy goldfish free. I was not expecting them and didn’t have the room for them. I quickly setup an old 20 gallon long and hung a penguin 350. I was looking for a way to remove nitrates from my tanks and I found Purigen. I placed 250ml (enough for 250 gallons) in my 75 gallon tank and waited. After a week of no results I was upset and threw the bag of purigen in the back of the penguin 350 and forgot about it. My tap water has high amounts of ammonia and chloramine, so when I do a water change there is already food for the nitrification process. The tank cycled in 3 weeks and 3 days ago I had very little Nitrites and 40ppm nitrates. I performed a water change and left for work. My fish are fed 3 times a day, I high protein, growth pellet food plus brine shrimp and split peas. When I came back I was expecting my nitrates to be creeping high again. I tested my water today and thought I made a mistake. I tested again and I have less than 2.0ppm nitrates! That is lower than it has ever been, EVER! It took some time for the purigen to start absorbing, and I think that it absorbs nitrates better than nitrites. The point is, it is working, it is rechargeable, it polishes water, and it doesn’t leach phosphates back into your water.
I hope this helps.
J

The issue with low nitrates is you very well may get cyano growth.
Cyanobacteria is the nastiest algae I've ever encountered, although I could see a REALLY bad breakout of BBA topping it. But trust me, at least 10ppm nitrate is something you absolutely WANT in your tank.

Chloramine basically is ammonia. When you use your water conditioner, you end up with ammonium, which is converted to nitrite and nitrate.

Purigen won't adsorb the inorganic ammonia, nitrite and nitrate produced by doing WCs with water that has chloramines in it, but it will prevent more nitrate from accumulating from organic sources.

 

[Hurst1401]

The issue with low nitrates is you very well may get cyano growth.
Cyanobacteria is the nastiest algae I've ever encountered, although I could see a REALLY bad breakout of BBA topping it. But trust me, at least 10ppm nitrate is something you absolutely WANT in your tank.

Chloramine basically is ammonia. When you use your water conditioner, you end up with ammonium, which is converted to nitrite and nitrate.

Purigen won't adsorb the inorganic ammonia, nitrite and nitrate produced by doing WCs with water that has chloramines in it, but it will prevent more nitrate from accumulating from organic sources.

I have since removed the purigen from the 20 gallon tank and placed it in the 75 gallon where it have do more good. I honestly had forgotten it was back there. I had enough purigne for 250 gallons in that little 20 gal so it was wayy over done. I doubt that it would be able to pull the nitrates down that low on the heavy fish in the 75 gal.
J