Purigen

[StellaMN]

I gave Purigen a try in my tank this weekend......I can't believe how awesome my tank looks! Water is crystal clear....corals have great extension, fish are extremely active.....not that my tank looked bad before...but it looks AMAZING now.

My question is -- has anyone tried regenerating it? How has this worked for you? Any tips/hints?

Thanks!

Jodi

[Junkzoo]

Jodi, yup,,,worked great for me also when i started using it.
to regenerate, what i've done is:
you've probably got it in a mesh bag already,,,,
take the bag , put it in water/bleach solution(i use the original container) let it set a while , i done overnite,seems long enuf.
drain off the bleach water, rinse a bit, refill container w/FW, add a "lot" of de-chlor to the solution, mor e than if you'd use for city water type use,,, mebbe another cycle of rinse/dechlor, til you cannot smell any chlorine ,when you stick your nose in the container,,(play it safe,,,re-dechlor,,,)
do this when you see the color change in the Purigen, you'll see the color go back to white'ish after the "recharge"
no problems on this end using this way,,,HTH

[Pirate]

Me too. Bought it, used it, loved it, regenerated it, used it again. No problem here !

[SaltBlock]

I have seen many TRT members talk about Purigen, but I haven't heard one single "downside" to the product.

Are there any "downsides" that one should consider before using the product?

AEB

[mjsandbe]

Just along for the ride.

[Spanky]

The only downside is you can't use a declor like Amquel, you have to use just certain declors. I can't remember which one it is right now, but it's probably on their site.

[salt creepette]

you can use one called Prime, or Safe, per their website. Ive never used purigen. could I put it in mesh bags in my powerfilter?

(jerel, would it help with phosphates/cyano?? Im dying for the answer to how to deal with phosphates in the other thread!)

[Spanky]

Patience Sunshine, we'll get there.

[CAT]

I'm using some in my new nano. I put it in a nylon stocking, the stuff is too small for some of the mesh bags out there. Putting it in a hang-on filter or somewhere where water is forced through it works best.

[tkjeffrey]

Interested in using it also, Would like to see where this post goes.

[SaltBlock]

No prob on the declor, I use Prime in my FW on a rare occasion.

Still no horror stories about this Purigen stuff.

Guess I'll give it a try

AEB

[salt creepette]

for those of us (me) who have only two cpr hang on skimmers, what would be the way to apply/use this stuff? my power filter is out of commission, i am waiting for a replacement part. when it comes in, could i put it in a regular filter bag for the powerfilter carbon and use it that way? i have a bag of carbon hanging in my skimmers return chamber right now, i guess I should take that out, huh?

[Spanky]

Originally posted by SaltBlock
Are there any "downsides" that one should consider before using the product?

Originally posted by salt creepette
(jerel, would it help with phosphates/cyano?? Im dying for the answer to how to deal with phosphates in the other thread!)

I did think of one downside. Anything you leave in a tanks filtration system, especially in a high flow area, that is designed to trap detritus, will cause detritus to break down and release phosphates.
Sooooo, you would have to treat this like filter fluff, etc and you should change it out every couple of days.

[tdwyatt]

Originally posted by Spanky
...(a)downside is you can't use a declor like Amquel, you have to use just certain declors. I can't remember which one it is...

Amquel is not that great a dechlorinator for this purpose, as it's mechanism is not really neutraliztion/reaction, rather adsorption/exchange of the chloramine ion (ClONH3)-R) to the methanesulfone molecule and subsequent release of nascent Chlorine ions into the water column. This does not remove chlorine from the water column, rather chloramine and hypochlorite (-OCl) , although the release of the chloride anion ionically associates with the sodium from the sodium hydroxymethanesulfonate molecule until it is exhausted (to render the chlorine ions relatively nontoxic as salt ). In terms of its capacity for dechlorinization, Amquel would prolly not be the choice.

The dechlorinator you want is Sodium Thiosulfate, which forms NaCl from the chlorine and a resultant sulfate molecule in the water column that associates with whatever ions are in the water column (usually Ca++ and Mg++ in marine aquariums).

[Spanky]

Hypo