Reactors

[punkieg0]

Hi all,
Not sure which is a better solution so I am looking for some guidance/advice.
I have an AquaGadget mini reactor and desktop reactor. Initially I tried running carbon and GFO in the mini but I couldn’t quite get it to work properly- GFO wasn’t rumbling enough and plugged it up. So I took the GFO and have been running carbon only for a few weeks.
I can either run just carbon in the mini and add GFO to the desktop reactor or put the GFO in a bag and move the desktop reactor to my other tank?
I have 2 AIO tanks : 45 gal and 20 gal. The 45 had been running about 8 months and the 20 about 6 months. I was battling some algae in the 45 but that has gotten much better. Cyano battle ongoing for the 20 gallon but manageable so far.
I have some zoas, hammer and frogspawn in the 45 and just zoas in the 20.
I just don’t know what is more beneficial/important for the tanks. I used to have a bag of carbon in both but never felt it did anything for either tank that way.

 

[lapin]

What I do is run media in bags in the reactors. While not the most effective use of media it works for me. I hate the mess of changing out media.

 

[punkieg0]

What I do is run media in bags in the reactors. While not the most effective use of media it works for me. I hate the mess of changing out media.

So do you put them in their own bag and then together in the reactor? Are they both tumbling then?

 

[lapin]

They are in old mesh filter sock bags. I cut the ring off and fill them part way. Then rubberband the end. This allows for some water to pass thru. I run 4 reactors. 1 big for Carbon-1 bag. 1 big for GFO-1 bag. 1 smaller unit that I have both in ,1 bag each. This one gets changed more often. 1 calcium reactor, but thats not part of this discussion