diamond brand premium active carbon?
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No smell or your used to it? there is a difference, there is also a difference between no BAD smell and no smell.
In the end its one thing to say to the OP that carbon has limited use, such as removing medication, removing odder, or in making the use of ozone or denitrate filter safer. But to just simply say its useless is without merit. when it clearly has uses, and if you took a stranger to your house asked them to stick their nose over the tank and ask them if they smell something the answer will be yes.
In the end its one thing to say to the OP that carbon has limited use, such as removing medication, removing odder, or in making the use of ozone or denitrate filter safer. But to just simply say its useless is without merit. when it clearly has uses, and if you took a stranger to your house asked them to stick their nose over the tank and ask them if they smell something the answer will be yes.
It has NO smell. Hence why I said it has no smell, no that it doesn't have a bad smell. Fine carbon has uses. But if you're are doing everything right, it doesn't have use to you. I keep my hands out of my tank unless I'm rearranging things, which I seldom do. My water is kept clean so it doesn't smell, I do water changes to remove meds like you're supposed to do anyway, and I don't use any chemicals near my tank. Carbon = useless to me because it is generally a huge waste of money.
My tanks only have a slight soily odor from the biological filter bacteria up close, but you really have to get in there to smell it. I walk in my house and there's no smell at all. Makes me wonder if some people are feeding different foods or something. Even my picky wife has not said anything about any smell.
I understand your contaminant pose. It's just that, if your tank might be contaminated, you're going to do a 90% water change or two or three right away anyway, so what's the carbon going to have a chance of doing?
I understand your contaminant pose. It's just that, if your tank might be contaminated, you're going to do a 90% water change or two or three right away anyway, so what's the carbon going to have a chance of doing?
Getting back to the original questions posed. Activated Carbon should be rinsed before putting the carbon in your filter. I use Black diamond and pour it in panty hose and rinse it in the sink to get the dust off the carbon. Then I put the panty hose of rinsed carbon in my sump where it is the last thing the water flows through before going into the return pump. Activated carbon removes organic material dissolved in water such as tannins, some meds, and that fishy smell caused by phenols. You can also remove these by doing water changes as stated above but if you don't need to do wcs everyweek carbon can help keep your tank clearer (removing tanins) and less smelly (removing phenols) between wcs. You will need to change out the carbon after a month or two depending on how much material the carbon has absorbed. You will notice the water turning brown sooner, or the smell coming back sooner after wcs, that when it's time to change the carbon.
i also have black diamond the premium grade one is ok to just put in it in the filter after i rinse it? or do i need to wrap in something like u do (pantyhose)
