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Purigen on Ebay

Egmel

Egmel

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Just thought I'd highlight that you can get purigen on ebay now works out about £15 for 250ml 🙂
 
Cheers egmel I swear by the stuff, removes tanins even in crystal clear water you wouldn't believe the difference it makes.
 
Thanks for the link Egmel 🙂 Brough some of this for my shrimp tank, and it worked a treat 🙂
 
It's a lot like carbon but much better as it only removes stuff we don't want in the tank.
 
It will always have a place in my filter, the water has never looked so clear and when i do my weekly water change the water that comes out is as clear as the fresh water i put in, And it's really not that expensive as i find easy to regenerate! 😀
 
so its just a bag of stuff that goes into your external filter? am i right? its not liquid then.
 
billy boy said:
And it's really not that expensive as i find easy to regenerate! 😀
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Can you explain how you do it, would be helpfull for some of us to understand it properly. thanks
 
LondonDragon said:
Can you explain how you do it, would be helpfull for some of us to understand it properly. thanks
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Seachem explains it all. I just bought some last week so I still haven't tried to re-generate it. Look at the borrom of the page >> Seachem Purigen <<
 
LondonDragon said:
billy boy said:
And it's really not that expensive as i find easy to regenerate! 😀
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Can you explain how you do it, would be helpfull for some of us to understand it properly. thanks
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YzemaN beat me to it! It really is as simply as that, i have 2 bags so i have 1 regenerateing when useing the other, Seachem say you can regenerate up to 8 times, I have only done it twice on each bag so only time will tell.

1 bag last's roughly about 2 months for me, so if you can regenerate it 8 times that would be 16 months for £8, So for me thats good value! As well as giveing good water clarity.
 
Cleaned out a filter today and forgot about the purigen in there, well its now getting rejuvenated.. must be about 1yr old or so..

Had the camera close by so took a picture of what it looks like after a year!

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Will see how it looks tomorrow.
 
mmmm tasty!

What do you use to keep yours in? I keep mine in old tights and was going to re-activate it without removing from the bag, it seemed to stick to everything when I was putting it in!
 
It's certainly gone brown 😱 Was it still keeping the water clear?
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Yep, i don't think it had done.. will see though in a few weeks once its back in there..

What do you use to keep yours in? I keep mine in old tights and was going to re-activate it without removing from the bag, it seemed to stick to everything when I was putting it in!
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Same, old tights too :lol: Wanted to get it out of the tights, the plan is once its all washed up i will keep pouring it back with water through the tights till i got most of it again

James
 
james3200 said:
the plan is once its all washed up i will keep pouring it back with water through the tights till i got most of it again
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Let me know how that goes!
 
nisharific said:
Is this only for external filters or can You use the bag in an INTERNAL one?
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I can't see a reason not to use it in an internal filter, it's an alternative to activated carbon (but better) which can be used in internal filtration systems.

Basically it's a water polisher but does not remove traces that carbon can.
 
nisharific said:
Is this only for external filters or can You use the bag in an INTERNAL one?
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I used it in an internal for a while, seems to do the job nicely there too 🙂
 
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