Coal in your reef tank: Do you use carbon?

[Mark Gray]

What does being a coal supporter have to do with this thread lol

We all use coal a lot, it is involved in almost everything we do.

 

[reefiniteasy]

ChemiPure Blue in both tanks but I think I might just use Seachem Matrix carbon. Get my nutrients up. What media bags does everyone like to use?

 

[Spare time]

We all use coal a lot, it is involved in almost everything we do.

Still doesn't have anything to do with using activated carbon in a reef tank. Unless you support coal for the purpose of reef tanks that's what you mean lol.

 

[MyFirstCar]

I run carbon. Aside from the usual benefits, running carbon and a good skimmer will provide a decent last line of defence against any cleaning products, soaps, lotion, etc that end up in the tank.

 

[Mark Gray]

Still doesn't have anything to do with using activated carbon in a reef tank. Unless you support coal for the purpose of reef tanks that's what you mean lol.

Well read my post carefully, I do use carbon occasionally and all the time in My RODI unit.

 

[EugeneVan]

No carbon for me. However I do use very low dose of Ozone to break down organic waste and 5% of weekly WC to keep my water sparkling.

 

[blazn]

I use carbon regularly via a dual-reactor. Due to possible HLLE potential from carbon use, I only use ROX 0.8 carbon and I put a new sediment filter in the 2nd camber of the reactor each time I change carbon, to ensure any potentially released carbon fines are captured by the filter, plus it performs some water 'polishing'. When I replace the carbon, I make a water change, removing the first 5 gallons with just the carbon and the second 5 gallons with the sediment filter in place. Works for me!