BlueLife USA releases rechargeable phosphate absorbing resin Phos Fx

By on Mar 06, 2013

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PhosFX is a new phosphate removing media from BlueLife USA, makers of the widely used ClearFX aquarium water polishing filter. PhosFX is different from granular ferric oxide (GFO) and is said to absorb PO4 twice as fast, with a higher adsorption capacity.

BlueLife USA’s PhosFX can be regenerated up to 6 times over its lifetime making it competitively priced compared to some of the higher priced GFO media. BlueLife also offers their Phos Fx Regenerate solution for recharging the phosphate removing filter. BlueLife USA is making PhosFX available in 250ml and 500ml sizes with the latter being suitable for 250 gallons of aquarium water. [BlueLife USA]

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  • http://www.facebook.com/ericcpeck Eric Peck

    Looks very similiar to the PO4x4.

  • http://www.facebook.com/adam.leclair Adam LeClair

    The question is, will their recharge solution be inexpensive enough to justify it, and how easy will it be to work with? I used PO4x4 for most of the first year of my tank, and ordered the recharge solution with the first batch. The recharge solution was so expensive that it was cheaper to toss the used up resin. Also, as great as PO4x4 was at sucking up phosphate, the super tiny polymer beads were almost too good at fluidizing – I had three layers of foam screen at the top of the reactor and it would still end up all over the sump and tank every time I changed the media out. Getting it all out of reactor in a manner that would lend itself to being re-charged (and not getting washed down the sink) was a total nightmare.

  • http://www.facebook.com/marshal.huneven Marshal Huneven

    It appears (from the last photo at least) that the resin is contained in a filter bag much like ClearFX.

    As for recharging, they may sell the recharging liquid premixed, but I’m willing to bet that it’s a simple solution that someone will crack in the first week and post a recipe on Reef Central for.

  • XD_1

    I’m always skeptical of these proprietary products. Remember that GFO wasn’t created for us, it’s used to scrub phosphate at scale for industrial water treatment. If XYZ product is cheaper or more effective than GFO, why are they selling it to us for thousands of dollars profit instead of to industrial/environmental plants for millions of dollars?

  • http://www.facebook.com/fnautsch Felix Nautsch

    Don’t be overly sceptical if you want to know what it is that is simple. Talk to any nephrologist and they can rattle every suitable phsophate binding resin off to you. From the prescribed properties of this. I would tell you its likely sevelamer also known as renvela. Will it outdo cheap basic GFO on a $/mole of phos adsorbed? no porbably not. But plenty of very good reasons to like this type of resin a whole lot.
    And btw I haven’t checked what it is, but if I cared I would simply obtain the MSDS. That is usually the fastest way to single out the guilty party from the usual suspects. I can promise you this is not anything the world of chemical engineering has not seen before.

  • XD_1

    So if it won’t outdo GFO on $/mol adsorbed, then what good reasons are there to like it? Is there any other figure of merit when it comes to removing phosphate from the system than how much phosphate it removes per dollar spent?

  • skunkmere

    why show us a picture of the container open if its not clear what is inside. it looks like stridex pads or maybe full of dirty little cocktail straws.

  • Warren Gibbons

    Yeah – I’m wondering what the recharging solution is