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I can’t decide what to put in my reactor for my FOWLR. You guys say carbon is fine. My LFS says GFO And my research says bio pellets. Confusing, right?
So let’s look at pros and cons (to show you guys I’m not being lazy about this)
.8 Rod Carbon- makes water crystal clear but needs replacing every week in reality (according to BRS). I don’t want to combine with gfo bc I’m wasting gfo doing that
GFO- prevents algae and lasts way longer than carbon. May be overkill for FOWLR
BIO Pellets- makes my good bacteria nice and beefed up, however this is usually used when you need to fix an issue and not as something you start with (Atleast in what I read)
So I’m gonna come out and say I do have a second reactor...just in case.
So let’s look at pros and cons (to show you guys I’m not being lazy about this)
.8 Rod Carbon- makes water crystal clear but needs replacing every week in reality (according to BRS). I don’t want to combine with gfo bc I’m wasting gfo doing that
GFO- prevents algae and lasts way longer than carbon. May be overkill for FOWLR
BIO Pellets- makes my good bacteria nice and beefed up, however this is usually used when you need to fix an issue and not as something you start with (Atleast in what I read)
So I’m gonna come out and say I do have a second reactor...just in case.