cleaned tank

The reason that you don't want your carbon to grow
bacteria is because you are trying to get your
nitrates down.

You might also want to try a second nitrate test kit
of a different brand to make sure that you are
getting accurate readings.

Wayne Sallee



Wayne Sallee wrote on 2/19/2008 10:47 AM:
For carbon, leave it in for at most a week. You can always dry out the
carbon and use it again. But what you don't want is for your carbon to
grow bacteria.

Wayne Sallee



Peter Pan wrote on 2/19/2008 9:35 AM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Let all of your filtration be done by live rock, and live sand, and
macro algae.

I'm using a Canister with carbon only (No bio-media) I have some live
sand in the tank and a DSB

Thanks Wayne, I'll give that a try