I'm the same way. I dont use carbon at all unless its needed, which isnt very often. I have a few brand new carbon bags in a cabinet that will probably stay there for a very long time.Jason_S said:I don't use carbon in any of my tanks unless I have to remove meds or if there's a particularly bad odor (which usually won't happen with proper water changes). My preference would be to use 1 sponge and the biomax. I don't have biomax in most of mine though because I got them all before they started including the biomax.
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In the filters that use carbon bags I either slit open the bags then replace the carbon with lava rock fragments or I cut a filter pad to fit. I am leery of carbon with cichlids due to hith and it just doesn't last long anyway so by replacing it I gain a bit of mechanical filtration and add some substrate for additional bacterial growth resulting in more biofiltration.
