rusty screws!! How much cleaning needs done?

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I have had some unhappy corals for about a month so I've finally been checking my stainless steel parts.
These screws on top of my mixing containers had some rust so I've replaced them with some plastic screws I have.
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bad steel screws.............................................................................good plastic screws

I also finally checked my float valve and it had some rust. I replaced that with a plastic screw but it has a metal pin at the top that doesn't touch water I can't replace but it looks ok. Should I just replace the float valve or is this probably good?


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I'm adding fresh carbon right now to try and help.
To clean the water of the copper would polyfilter be good enough or should I use cuprisorb?
 
A little iron is not a problem. Polyfilter is enough if there are other metals that were present with the trash metal screws.
 

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