can phosban

[slysock]

cause water to have a brown tint? or is that the water quality?

[prow]

yeah, it does usually turn the water orange, but could be more brownish looking too. this is due to a couple things, the main reason is usually due to too much/ to high flow rates, that wear down the "nuggets" and turns them into dust. or the bag is to porous "holes too big, microns to small" allowing it to get blown up into the water column. might want to put it in a lower flow area and/or reduce the flow where ever it is, which brings up the question, where are you placing the media and in what??

o also, careful when you use it, it does cause a depletion of your alk levels.

[slysock]

i have it in a little fishies phosban reactor 150, my flow was moving the top of the phosban, so i tuned it downa little so it would stop doing that. should i do a water cange to get ride of teh orange water? or is there some way to filter it out?

[Dentoid]

That orange tinge only lasts a a short time. In my tank, 30 minutes max after placing new media in the reactor.

[ReefGuy69]

i soaked the media in ro water and then ran 2-3 gal through it once in the reactor to a spare bucket until it runs clear. that way you dont cloud the tank or anything like that. It worked great for me.

[slysock]

hmm
i did all of that, it might be that i ran my flow a little hi for a while. should i just do waterchanges till its gone?

[BoomerD]

Water changes will help, carbon may help.

I always ran my TLF Phosban reactor so that the output dumped into a 50 micron filter sock...helped catch any particles that found their way out of the reactor.

Didn't help a bit when I used too large of a pump the first time I set it up...the tank was a solid orange fog...you couldn't see 2 inches into the tank!

Didn't hurt anything in the long run however...yes, things looked a bit unhappy for a couple of days till it cleared, (lots of large water changes and copious carbon) but nothing suffered any long-term effects.