Zero Nitrates Filter

[geoff_tropheus]

http://www.aquaripure.com/index.htm

Ever tried this before?

[geoff_tropheus]

http://www.aquaripure.com/setup.htm

[Mzungu]

Hmm...interesting.

I'd like to see testimonials of professionals in the aquarium hobby and elsewhere. I'll have to look up more about it before I have an opinion. :)

[newb]

I found these on aquabid once before but never tried it.

[cichlid1409]

just looks like a small RO filter.... RO removes nitrates.

[geoff_tropheus]

Not sure how accredited these testimonials would be.

http://www.aquaripure.com/testimonials.htm

It says it is a bacteria that lives on Nitrates and Ethanol.

The chemical reaction in the Aquaripure produces 10 CO2 + 6 N2 + 26 H2O

http://www.aquaripure.com/EZfeed.htm

[Zulaab]

Cheaper to just have a drip system of prime into your tank.
In short.. I love the opening line for the product : The Aquaripure will greatly reduce water changes
Ohh and this is the kicker : There is a "feeding" tube on all of Aquaripure's filters that is very easy to use. You simply inject sugar water or alcohol into the Aquaripure once a week.

Yeah -- let me give you a better solution Geoff.. CARBON FILTER and a few hours each week and do it RIGHT !!!

[geoff_tropheus]

Jesper,

All the carbon does is absorb it, this filter changes the Nitrate compounds and gets rid of it completely.

The Nitrate is still going to be in the aquarium in a carbon filter, meaning if you have a carbon bag in your canister or aquarium filter, it is still there technically.

I am not discussing a weekly waterchange and still have 20-40ppm Nitrate, I am talking about having Zero.

[myjohnson]

Carbon can not absorb/remove nitrate.

[geoff_tropheus]

20 ml of Feed Mixture for a 500 gallon tank.

[geoff_tropheus]

http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water_quality/quality1/38-08-nitrate-problems-with-gac-filtration.htm

[Zulaab]

One issue I see with the chemical reaction is that it produces a lot of CO2 which in turn is acidic to the tank which means it will lower the pH value on the tank.
Granted weekly water changes does lower it.
The only thing I dont understand is the high amount of Nitrates you are showing.

(10 min later)
Okie I just did a test of both the 180 and the 110.
Both tanks run Wet/Dry's and no other biological filtration.
Nitrates for both the 180 and 110 shows up on the API Master Fresh Water kit as 0.0 ppm.
The card show yellow = 0 and orange = 5.0.. both test bottles are yellow.

[Mzungu]

Planted tanks rarely have nitrate...usually nitrates have to be supplemented. Not sure why they talk of removing nitrates from planted tanks, as they are both necessary and almost always low/zero.

[myjohnson]

Planted tanks rarely have nitrate...usually nitrates have to be supplemented. Not sure why they talk of removing nitrates from planted tanks, as they are both necessary and almost always low/zero.

+1. When I had my planted tanks running I had to dump ferts in there for my plants. Those plants stuck up a lot nitrate.

I don't know, but this filter sounds to good to be true.

If having this filter allows all of us fish keepers to not do water changes then people would be all over this thing.

[rmalford]

It's been a while. Anyone try one of these yet?