How do you "run carbon"?

rwsoos · 04/04/2007, 03:06 PM

I'm a little confused. Buy a fileter sock fill with carbon and place in sump? Use a HOB filter with carbon? How and where to you put carbon in the sequence of things? I have alot of littles particles flowing around that I'd like to get rid of. Thanks.

Blown 346 · 04/04/2007, 03:10 PM

I run it in a filter sock in my Sump/Fuge. I place it between the baffles so water flow can get through it so it works efficiently.

jmack · 04/04/2007, 03:12 PM

For particulate matter you might try a micron filter pad..they trap particles and clarify the water.

Craig Lambert · 04/04/2007, 04:49 PM

I fill one of these with about 12 tbsp of AC and hang it in the sump:

http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...product=EA1135

ahullsb · 04/04/2007, 06:38 PM

I just drop a bag in my sump every month or two

rwsoos · 04/04/2007, 07:34 PM

thanks

drummereef · 04/04/2007, 08:25 PM

If you have a sump, put it in a filter bag and drop it in a high flow area. If you don't a hob filter works fine. Put some GAC in a filter bag and put it inside the filter. I change mine out monthly.

04/04/2007, 03:06 PM	#1
rwsoos Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Staten Island, NY Posts: 170	How do you "run carbon"? I'm a little confused. Buy a fileter sock fill with carbon and place in sump? Use a HOB filter with carbon? How and where to you put carbon in the sequence of things? I have alot of littles particles flowing around that I'd like to get rid of. Thanks.

04/04/2007, 04:49 PM	#4
Craig Lambert Premium Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,897	I fill one of these with about 12 tbsp of AC and hang it in the sump: http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...product=EA1135 __________________ "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will spend all day in a boat drinking beer." Current Tank Info: 75G Tank, 29G Sump, 100lbs LR, AquaC EV-180, Iwaki MD-20RT return Tunze nano streams 4X54 t-5/Icecap Ballast & SLR's 2x110 vho actinic

04/04/2007, 06:38 PM	#5
ahullsb Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sacramento, ca Posts: 2,729	I just drop a bag in my sump every month or two __________________ Andy Sacramento, CA Current Tank Info: 55 gallon reef w/20 gallon sump/ER135/ 75 pounds of live rock, 4 in sandbed, 2 b&w ocellaris clowns, yellow watchman/pistol, rosy scaled wrasse, Mystery wrasse, Copperbanded Butterfly, Lighting 48" outer orbit 2 150 mh/ 4 t5 actinics

04/04/2007, 08:25 PM	#7
drummereef Team RC Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: STL Posts: 14,754	If you have a sump, put it in a filter bag and drop it in a high flow area. If you don't a hob filter works fine. Put some GAC in a filter bag and put it inside the filter. I change mine out monthly. __________________ -Brett 180g Marineland Starfire In-Wall 278 gallon system Last edited by drummereef; 04/04/2007 at 08:40 PM.

04/04/2007, 03:10 PM	#2
Blown 346 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Rockford, Illinois Posts: 6,596	I run it in a filter sock in my Sump/Fuge. I place it between the baffles so water flow can get through it so it works efficiently.

04/04/2007, 03:12 PM	#3
jmack Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NV Posts: 1,060	For particulate matter you might try a micron filter pad..they trap particles and clarify the water.

04/04/2007, 07:34 PM	#6
rwsoos Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Staten Island, NY Posts: 170	thanks