charcoal

scbasser5 · 12/10/2006, 09:09 PM

Can you over do the use of Charcoal in a reef tank? I put some in a fiter suck and have my chiller return line feeding through it back to the sump.

Could I expierence problems if i run it all the time? I have a mag 5 pumping water to the chiller and the return dumping back in the sump just ahead of the return pumps. So only a small amount of water is going through it at any given time. However, I plan to plumb the chiller in the return to the tank lines, I think it will be more effecient that way, but has worked fine for two summers.

Thanks for the info.

Henry Bowman · 12/10/2006, 11:34 PM

Over do it.... I dunno. I run it constantly, if you let it go for too long without changing it and then replace it all at once, you can shock your aquairum pets by changing the water chemistry quickly. Even though you are making it cleaner, the drastic change all at once can stress the inhabitants. I run about half pound in a canister filter (which is more efficient than running it through a sock) and change out half at a time every 21 days. Dont take my comments wrong, there's nothing bad about running it through a filter sock. I think it is effective, just not as efficient as running it through a chamber type set-up.

scbasser5 · 12/11/2006, 07:47 AM

Awesome, thanks for the info.

12/10/2006, 09:09 PM	#1
scbasser5 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Lexington, South Carolina Posts: 173	charcoal Can you over do the use of Charcoal in a reef tank? I put some in a fiter suck and have my chiller return line feeding through it back to the sump. Could I expierence problems if i run it all the time? I have a mag 5 pumping water to the chiller and the return dumping back in the sump just ahead of the return pumps. So only a small amount of water is going through it at any given time. However, I plan to plumb the chiller in the return to the tank lines, I think it will be more effecient that way, but has worked fine for two summers. Thanks for the info.

12/10/2006, 11:34 PM	#2
Henry Bowman Reefing since '87 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Allegheny Mountains of VA Posts: 2,162	Over do it.... I dunno. I run it constantly, if you let it go for too long without changing it and then replace it all at once, you can shock your aquairum pets by changing the water chemistry quickly. Even though you are making it cleaner, the drastic change all at once can stress the inhabitants. I run about half pound in a canister filter (which is more efficient than running it through a sock) and change out half at a time every 21 days. Dont take my comments wrong, there's nothing bad about running it through a filter sock. I think it is effective, just not as efficient as running it through a chamber type set-up. __________________ Have a good'un Current Tank Info: 90 gl SPS dominant / upgrade in the works

12/11/2006, 07:47 AM	#3
scbasser5 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Lexington, South Carolina Posts: 173	Awesome, thanks for the info.