Rpeinhardt
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you may be a special case
Lol! My mommy and psychiatrist both agree.
you may be a special case
No carbon unless you wahwah stinky or removing meds..
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Out of curiosity, why is that? I'm working off rather dated fish keeping information and am trying to update myself but I don't understand the reason for no carbon.
It's because it becomes exhausted (rather, the pores are filled up...no more adsorption) easily. Water changes can do what it does for the most part. It is controversial whether or not it removed fertilizers intended for plants.
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Hmm, I suppose it would make sense that it could possibly take out fertilizers as it's sort of meant to take things out of the water. I guess I can just fill up the extra space in the filter with more floss or bio-media or something.
Floss and/or biomedia is often used in its place. Some folks use purigen (chemical media, clarifier, supposed to be okay with ferts) whenever possible.
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Hmm, I suppose it would make sense that it could possibly take out fertilizers as it's sort of meant to take things out of the water. I guess I can just fill up the extra space in the filter with more floss or bio-media or something.
Copper and other micros I believe is the concern. Or anything using organic chelating agents. Interesting read I thought below.
Chelation | The Skeptical Aquarist
Activated carbon & dry ferts [Archive] - Aquariumlife
Curious what others think. I believe this did get asked of Rivercats and there was no difference in tanks running carbon compared to as not.