- Location
- Long Island
do you run carbon at all times or sometimes:splitspin
Carbon question
- Thread starter greenstreet.1
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- Location
- NY
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ESV Carbon
ESV Carbon
- Location
- poughquag, ny
All the time
- Location
- Westchester, NY
Chemipure Elite 24/7
- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
Here's a good write up on carbon use in a reef tank
http://joejaworski.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/does-a-reef-tank-need-carbon/
You won't see the effects of not running carbon for a month or two if you stop, and it always starts with the lagoon-y smell at low tide. The yellowish/not clear tank water your not gonna notice untill you add carbon and hit yourself over the head for not using it. :smash:
If your tank has a place where water passes through the bag and not over and around it it should be fine. Otherwise use a reactor.
But the rule of thumb is that you should always use a reactor, bags really reduce the efficiency, unless of course the reactor is bigger than the actual water volume =P
Everyones gonna say chemipure which gets expensive for larger tanks, kent marine or two little fishies hydrocarbon, ESV or the bulk reef supply stuff which is the best bang for your buck.
http://joejaworski.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/does-a-reef-tank-need-carbon/
You won't see the effects of not running carbon for a month or two if you stop, and it always starts with the lagoon-y smell at low tide. The yellowish/not clear tank water your not gonna notice untill you add carbon and hit yourself over the head for not using it. :smash:
If your tank has a place where water passes through the bag and not over and around it it should be fine. Otherwise use a reactor.
But the rule of thumb is that you should always use a reactor, bags really reduce the efficiency, unless of course the reactor is bigger than the actual water volume =P
Everyones gonna say chemipure which gets expensive for larger tanks, kent marine or two little fishies hydrocarbon, ESV or the bulk reef supply stuff which is the best bang for your buck.
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- Location
- NY
Running carbon in a media bag is running it passively (as Tosiek eluded to). Water will always seek the path of least resistance. A media bag filled with carbon (or any other media for that matter) is an obstruction. Water 'wants' to go around it.
Running carbon in a reactor is running it actively. The water has no other place to go other than directly through the media. Much more efficient this way.
Russ
Running carbon in a reactor is running it actively. The water has no other place to go other than directly through the media. Much more efficient this way.
Russ
- Location
- Long Island, New York
Great link, thanks.
- Location
- Long Island
thank you to all
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