My GFO/Carbon keeps getting clogged!

[mr11]

I'm using a BRS carbon/GFO reactor and I mix the carbon and GFO together. After about a week there is hardly any water running through the reactor, I assume because it bricked up. How can I prevent this? GFO costs too much to replace weekly

 

[Sabellafella]

I'm using a BRS carbon/GFO reactor and I mix the carbon and GFO together. After about a week there is hardly any water running through the reactor, I assume because it bricked up. How can I prevent this? GFO costs too much to replace weekly

Not sure if the brs reacter use sponges but maybe give them a rinse? My vertex reactors would clog in a week and it would up being the sponge i was using to keep the media in place

 

[mr11]

Yeah it has a sponge above and below the media. I rinsed them out really well during my last media change and it again lasted about a week. Any solutions to this problem or better reactors?

 

[Downbeach]

What's the ratio of GFO to GAC? In this case you need to mix these media's at a rate of about 3 or 4 parts GAC to 1 part GFO to keep the GFO from binding to itself. I would also run the reactor in reverse to keep the media from tumbling, and GFO from grinding the GAC into dust.

 

[mr11]

Yeah I run .5 cups of GFO to 1.5 cups of carbon. I run it forwards currently but there doesn't seem to be much movement in the media.

 

[Drakonis]

Sounds like your pumping "raw" tank water into the reactor. try sourcing your reactor water supply post filter socks/skimmer.