nitrate reducing resin filters?

Does anyone see or experience a down side to using nitrate absorbing resins to suppliment a live rock biofilter? The ones I've seen are SeaChem De-Nitrate,
FilStar Nitra-Zorb, Poly-Filter pad, and Purigen. Anyone tried these?

 

Lol! Guess crickets mean nobody uses them! :guitarist

 

Crickets mean no one responded quickly yet. I have used purigen and de-nitrate. they work but not quickly but basically depends on where your nitrates are at.

 

Edward

Polyfilter - used it, excellent product IMO, I used these if ever something did not look right in my tank, corals not extending as they should etc - Polyfilters remove a lot of chemicals, metals, nutrients etc and are a great thing to have IMHO
the other real positive of the Polyfilter is that it changes colour indicating what it has absorbed ( it turns blue if its absorbing copper, Red if its absorbing Iron, and dark brown to black if its absorbing standard excess nutrients )

If I was the type to keep toxin producing inhabitants in my tank (Nems, cucumbers, sea apples etc) then I would want a polyfilter on hand in case one of them passed away

Purigen, been using this for 2 years, and as Reef Bruh mentions this product is very good at tidying up low levels of excess nutrients - if you have a reef tank with less than 10ppm Nitrate and want to keep SPS, then the right QTY of Purigen coupled with good husbandry practices (dont over feed, dont over stock etc) has helped me to achieve 0 nitrates

I have not used the other products metioned but those are my experiences of the 2 I have used

Steve

 

Why not combo with carbon

I use SeaChem SeaGel - Below is their description of the product which I have found to be accurate.

SeaChem SeaGel is an efficient blend of MatrixCarbon and PhosGuard. SeaGel removes organic and color impurities, phosphates, silicates, toxic metals and acids. Both components are bead shaped for optimum water flow characteristics. SeaGel is ideal for reef and marine aquarium use, particularly for algae control. It may also be used in freshwater that is not phosphate buffered.

 

I ended up grabbing a bag of nitrate lock free from a buddy...
I haven't used it yey although it says it can be used several times...
although you must clean it with special instructions.

 

Sorry for replying late. the reason I'm asking is I don't want to cram my DT full of live rock. that being said i intend to use a Fluidized Bed Filter to cut down on the Live rock I need. So I needed something to remove the nitrates.

I think I will be using a combo of Chaeto and a Nitrate filters and see where that gets me.

Thank you guys for the input.

ReefBruh made a point that makes sense. The resin filters are slow so I can't rely on them alone. So I'm hoping the small amount of LR, the FBF, and the resin filter will help keep the Nitrates at a good level... 0!

Thanks again all!