Activated carbon

[nuj244]

What's d good brand of activated carbon that you can just dump in the sump?

[iskay]

Boyd - chemipure

[Zoa guy]

roaw carbon not bad, right now im using pur 2 from aquapharm. You can try matrix carbon from seachem

[deltec]

you can try rowa carbon... not bad

[marineplanet]

Elite Chemipure is a good carbon. U can get from Ah Beng shop.

[Jameshong]

I use Granular Activated Carbon . Cheaper n Good.

[sungod666]

eheim active carbon

[M3Morph]

You might be interested to note that GAC is found to have caused HLLE in aquariums.

Read more on our blog post.

http://www.m3morph.com/main/using-activated-carbon/

Cheers

[Gouldian]

You might be interested to note that GAC is found to have caused HLLE in aquariums.

Read more on our blog post.

http://www.m3morph.com/main/using-activated-carbon/

Cheers

Herewith is the conclusion of the article:

Conclusion:

The recommendation based on the clear effect that the use of carbon had on the study fish is not to use activated lignite carbon in marine aquariums housing fish species susceptible to HLLE. Other means of water quality management should first be explored; water changes, non-carbon chemical filtration, or foam fractionation. Extruded pelleted carbon may be more suitable, especially if used sparingly. No conclusions can be drawn regarding the use of carbon filtration products that were not tested.

If you do use carbon, rinse it well in reverse osmosis water prior to use, employ a foam fractionator, and do not place the carbon in a high water flow reactor (that might serve to break the carbon granules up into finer particles).

Source: http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/activated-carbon-hlle-smoking-gun-found

In the article, the fingers were pointed conclusively at lignite carbon and carbon dust. Lignite if I am not wrong, is about 70 percent carbon. Bituminous is around 90 percent carbon. Anthracite is consists of 99.9% carbon.

I believe lignite and bituminous are commonly used in the hobby. I prefer to use virgin bituminous GAC rather than the former and I have never encounter HLLE in my tank before.

I was given some China made GAC branded by a local company and the results wasn't good when I used them in our MASS set-up but we did not observe any HLLE during the 3 days. But I personally will not use them in my own tank due to the amount of "fines" in that small package - to me it is unacceptable.

The Reef Tank post on Carbon: http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f6/activated-carbon-life-test-results-118497.html

Virgin Bituminous: http://www.magnavore.com/closerlook/pcrcl.html

Georgia Aquarium Using Carbon Filtration: http://www.water.siemens.com/en/applications/aquatic_water_treatment/Pages/ga_aquarium.aspx

Why some reefers use lignite: http://www.fishchannel.com/media/saltwater-aquariums/aquarium-frontiers/reef-aquarium-granular-activated-carbon.aspx.pdf

I guess the verdicts is still out there...

[Jameshong]

Herewith is the conclusion of the article:

Conclusion:

The recommendation based on the clear effect that the use of carbon had on the study fish is not to use activated lignite carbon in marine aquariums housing fish species susceptible to HLLE. Other means of water quality management should first be explored; water changes, non-carbon chemical filtration, or foam fractionation. Extruded pelleted carbon may be more suitable, especially if used sparingly. No conclusions can be drawn regarding the use of carbon filtration products that were not tested.

If you do use carbon, rinse it well in reverse osmosis water prior to use, employ a foam fractionator, and do not place the carbon in a high water flow reactor (that might serve to break the carbon granules up into finer particles).

Source: http://www.coralmaga...oking-gun-found

In the article, the fingers were pointed conclusively at lignite carbon and carbon dust. Lignite if I am not wrong, is about 70 percent carbon. Bituminous is around 90 percent carbon. Anthracite is consists of 99.9% carbon.

I believe lignite and bituminous are commonly used in the hobby. I prefer to use virgin bituminous GAC rather than the former and I have never encounter HLLE in my tank before.

I was given some China made GAC branded by a local company and the results wasn't good when I used them in our MASS set-up but we did not observe any HLLE during the 3 days. But I personally will not use them in my own tank due to the amount of "fines" in that small package - to me it is unacceptable.

The Reef Tank post on Carbon: http://www.thereefta...lts-118497.html

Virgin Bituminous: http://www.magnavore...look/pcrcl.html

Georgia Aquarium Using Carbon Filtration: http://www.water.sie...a_aquarium.aspx

Why some reefers use lignite: http://www.fishchann...carbon.aspx.pdf

I guess the verdicts is still out there...

Thanks for sharing !