- Absorbs phosphates in aquarium water
- Can be cut to custom fit your filter
- Improves water quality and clarity
Phosphate pads are great for lowering your phosphate levels in your aquarium. Excess phosphates in the water column can cause algae growth and compromise fish health. Adding phosphate absorbing filter pads to your filter can ensure your tank remains healthy. They can easily be be cut down to the size of your filter for a perfect fit. Live plants prefer at least some phosphates be available in the water column, so this filter pad is best used in tanks with elevated phosphate levels.
Chemical Filtration for Phosphate Removal
Customizable to Fit Any Filter
Customer Reviews
Recently, I purchased from the Aquarium Co-op the course sponge pad, fine pad, carbon infused pad, and phosphate media pad. To date, I’ve not needed any of them, but I can explain my reasoning.
For tanks > 29-gallons I use hang-on-back filters. These allow easy addition or subtraction of various filter inserts and bio-rings. Tanks < 29-gallons have sponge filters . Besides these I keep Shark Pro internal filter/pumps and box filters, which when needed can accommodate the pads noted above. This arrangement permits the shark pro to be used for additional flow and temporary filtration using any of the pads, or a box filter with appropriate pad can be added to any tank, as needed.
The Aquarium Co-op pads are important additions to my fish room to be used for normal replacements, or extra water quality maintenance and emergencies.
In my 20 gal planted shrimp.& Nano fish tank adding this reduced the levels from 5 to 2 in 3-4 days.
I have .25 -.5 phosphates in city well water. Plus aquarium plants and food decaying in a well stocked tank. Phosphates were not all being used up by plants. Bought this pad and cut to shape needed. Worked perfect getting phosphates in check, and took small particles out of water.
A great product. Very easy to use ,cut and adapt it for use in almost every kind of filter.
I use this in my canister and HOBs. It cut to fit into 4 large size Aqueon filters and 4 small pads for my 407 can. Test could tell within 4 hours of it dropping my levels nocelt
These pads make it easy to reduce phosphate when it's a bit high. Just cut it to desired shape and plop it in the filter. Can't make it easier than that.
Cut down my phosphate, noticeable in 2 days on 120 gal tank.
These seem to be ok but I’m still in progress of using them. My phosphate was sky high at the max of 10+ per the API yesterday. I doubled the pads as directed by co-op for about two - three days and it’s gone down to around 5ppm. I’m stilling not clear on how long to leave them in or change them and don’t get a direct answer from co-op either. I think if you’re in a bind these can work but I wouldn’t say these are the “best” at reducing a spike.
I initially didn’t like this product because the pads filtered the nitrates out of my water faster than phosphates, thus rendering my fertilizer essentially useless. It caused an algae bloom when this happened. However, when I switched to filtering my source water at the recommendation of the folks at aquarium co-op, this worked perfectly. After two weeks of filtering my source tapwater, my blue algae problem is nearly completely gone.
this product may work for some but within HOURS it had dropped my nitrate levels from 40+ to 0, with no effect on phos levels, causing an huge blue green algae bloom. exactly the opposite of what I wanted.