Charcoal / Purigen and/or GFO

[gort]

I have one BRS reactor. What would you run in it? Carbon or GFO. My idea is the carbon would need to be changed pretty frequently. I am very concerned about nitrates and algea.

Sort of an odd question. Really i am asking if i should run carbon. The BRS reactor isnt a big expense and I can get another one. Or maybe Purigen instead of carbon?

I am afraid i wont change the carbon out and it becomes a nitrate producer. And algea... nooooooooooooooooooo.... Could it do this?

I have a fairly small bio load right now, and run an octupus skimmer.

comments welcome.. thanks

 

[ralph atl]

get two or dual.

gfo def

if you have tangs, purigen, otherwise, rox carbon from brs.

 

[gort]

Why do you say Tangs use Purigen? They dont like carbon?

Edit: Thanks for the advice. I will get another reactor, run GFO for phosphate removal. The other one I will run Carbon. Purigen seems to hard, gotta use "the bag" or something...

Thank you for your response.

 

[acroholic]

There is a supposed connection between HLLE in tangs and the use of carbon. That's why Ralph said what he did.

Edit:

Gort;700830 wrote: Why do you say Tangs use Purigen? They dont like carbon?

Edit: Thanks for the advice. I will get another reactor, run GFO for phosphate removal. The other one I will run Carbon. Purigen seems to hard, gotta use "the bag" or something...

Thank you for your response.

There are instructions by falos for making a Purigen reactor here out of a BRS Media conainer here in post #8: http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63198">http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63198</a>

I'll try that next. You can use "the bag" and just put it inside a BRS Media container, but you will need to pull it out and rinse it once in a while because mine gets clogged up with crud on the outside of "the bag." The purigen inside hasn't turned color to brown or anything, just the flow reduces a lot until you rinse it off.

 

[falos]

I'll post a diy with pics on the conversion to high flow its time to change my puragin carbon is good but I only run it for 24 hrs 1 day a week usuly before waterchanges