I'd like to start using lanthanum to bring my phosphates down. I have some Phosphate-E (which is the same as lanthanum - right?).
My understanding is that I want to dose the lanthanum into a fine mesh filter sock, in order to capture the precipitate. Because it's a bad thing for the precipitate to make it into my system. What I don't get is how this could work - does the lanthanum bind with the phosphate so quickly that no unbound lanthanum would make it through the filter sock? I would think that some would make it through the filter sock and bind with phosphate elsewhere in the system, which I'd like to avoid.
Also - how much of a daily PPM drop of phosphate is safe? How gradually should I drop my phosphates?
Thanks!
- Dave
My understanding is that I want to dose the lanthanum into a fine mesh filter sock, in order to capture the precipitate. Because it's a bad thing for the precipitate to make it into my system. What I don't get is how this could work - does the lanthanum bind with the phosphate so quickly that no unbound lanthanum would make it through the filter sock? I would think that some would make it through the filter sock and bind with phosphate elsewhere in the system, which I'd like to avoid.
Also - how much of a daily PPM drop of phosphate is safe? How gradually should I drop my phosphates?
Thanks!
- Dave