Anyone running carbon in their SH tanks??

FishGuy5 · 11/01/2009, 11:50 PM

I'm thinking of running carbon either through a bag or media reactor to help clear up my water in the the tank. Will this pose any problems for the ponies, or should t be OK?? TIA

ChadTheSpike · 11/02/2009, 11:58 AM

I have run carbon in my SH tanks for years and have not noticed any ill effects. I have it in a bag in my sump and replace it every two weeks.

namxas · 11/03/2009, 03:45 PM

we run chemi-pure in our SH setups w/no trouble.

don't use the chemi-pure elite, however, as the phosphate remover it uses has been known to irritate the gills of fish having closed opercula.

11/01/2009, 11:50 PM	#1
FishGuy5 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Elk Grove, CA Posts: 1,685	Anyone running carbon in their SH tanks?? I'm thinking of running carbon either through a bag or media reactor to help clear up my water in the the tank. Will this pose any problems for the ponies, or should t be OK?? TIA

11/02/2009, 11:58 AM	#2
ChadTheSpike Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Washington DC Posts: 189	I have run carbon in my SH tanks for years and have not noticed any ill effects. I have it in a bag in my sump and replace it every two weeks. __________________ "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Current Tank Info: 60 gal with seahorses and soft corals with a 30 gal refugium and HUGE mass of chaeto... anyone need some?

11/03/2009, 03:45 PM	#3
namxas Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: torrance, CA Posts: 557	we run chemi-pure in our SH setups w/no trouble. don't use the chemi-pure elite, however, as the phosphate remover it uses has been known to irritate the gills of fish having closed opercula. __________________ Greg Current Tank Info: too many to describe, but i think the count is up to 12!