I've never been a big user of carbon, but at the
store, I used it a lot because you never know what
people are throwing in the tanks. I just used it in
the bag method, usually in a high flow area You can
leave it in a bag, and place it that way in your
reactor so that water is forced through it.
Panty-hose works real well in that it can be used to
conform to any spaces.

Wayne Sallee


Pszemol wrote on 9/15/2007 11:41 AM:
Other than hanging a bag filled with carbon in the sump,
what do you use to make carbon work more efficiently?

Tha idea with a bag works, but in my understanding
water would penetrate carbon better if it was flowing
forced through not around the bag...

I was trying to put a layer of carbon in the phosphate
reactor, but carbon is very light and it is easily
lifted up with water and travels back to my tank...

How do you put carbon to work in your reef tanks?