Looking for Phosphate remover ideas

[knhassan]

I don't have any equipment and looking for ideas how to remove Phosphate from my Tank without purchasing the reactor. Any simple DIY ideas??

Thanks

[sscherin]

Start a Chato or Mangrove Refugium

Simple Rubbermaid or Sterilite tub with a bulkhead for a drain will do the trick. throw some live rock rubble in there too and you'll have a nice place for the pods to grow.

I have a 5g tub refuge on my 65g tank..
Just pump water in from the sump with a small powerhead or tap the drain or return pump line.

http://www.pontiacs.org/pics/projects/65tank/IMGP5659.JPG

[knhassan]

I do have Sump/Fuge 45g, half is Fuge with Chaetos but still getting some blackish algae growing on subtrate and HA on some LR. Couple of months ago I changed my lights from T5HO to 2*175MH and put some dead LR got from someone locally.

Any tips or ideas...

[Snowboarda42]

Drip Kalkwasser.

[kgross]

Dripping Kalk into the intake of your skimmer will remove some phosphates, but even if you don't have a reactor you can run phosphate removing media in a filter bag, it is just not as effective as running it in a reactor.

Kim