Cleaning Carbon and phosphate remover material before use...

[Tonyscoots84]

here is the million dollar question that i have been pondering and searching for but couldnt find on here...

How do you clean all the black powder from let say the carbon bag your about to use... same with the phosphate remover such as phos-ban or such a thing.. i no they shouldnt be used this way but right now i dont have money for a reactor... how do you clean these 2.. if you use reg. tap water wouldnt that be loaded into the carbon and phosphate remover... im just confused and stumped on this...

last time i used the carbon i ended up skimming black stuff cause i didnt clean the carbon out to well.... any suggestions... thanks in advance...

 

[marrone]

Just run it under some RO/DI water.

 

[fritz]

I rinse mine in cold tap water. I don't think that the small volume of water that you run through it to rinse it (1 gallon max?) is going to make much of a difference.

 

[Falco]

I change out my media before I do a water change and add the media to my reactor then run it into a 5g bucket until the water becomes clear. Then I just put the output hose back into the sump

 

[alrha]

i rinse mine in RO/DI water (costs less than the media which i wouldnt want to waste absorbing stuff from the tap).
i also run the reactor through it a bit as falco mentioned.

 

[prattreef]

Tap water. Done. No problem.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks guys so much... i have carbon and phosban in the sump... i put em in the baffles...i got a polyfilter in the 1st baffle then in the 2nd baffle i got the carbon and phosban stuff... i no there not gonna be as effective as they would be in a reactor but this is what i have to do for now..

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Tapwater too.

 

[Quang]

Tap as well, medium water stream for no more than 10 secs.

 

[masterswimmer]

Cool tap water. I use a very fine mesh strainer. I run it till it gets as clear as possible. Done. No problems.

swimmer

 

[Reefer420]

tap water - NYC's water supply is really clean

 

[masterswimmer]

tap water - NYC's water supply is really clean

I guess it's a good thing that NYC's tap water is not from NYC! :thrash:

swimmer

 

[Tonyscoots84]

lolz