Replacing Reactor filter pads

[kirkwood]

I have the generic BRS reactors. How often do you change your filter pads for Carbon and GFO. Also where do you get your replacement pads? Looking for a low budget solution.

 

[ralph atl]

I clean my pads every week, but I only have 2 as the newer model doesn't use any on the GFO (I cleaned those every week, too~PIA).

Just get the new model canisters on their website. They also sell the pads. I have a few and rotate them out for easy change.

I replace them maybe every 2 years...

 

[kirkwood]

mysterybox;923031 wrote: I clean my pads every week, but I only have 2 as the newer model doesn't use any on the GFO (I cleaned those every week, too~PIA).

Just get the new model canisters on their website. They also sell the pads. I have a few and rotate them out for easy change.

I replace them maybe every 2 years...

I couldn't agree more. I just took my GFO offline because the pads were way too much of a PIA. The pads would become almost solid after absorbing a bunch of small particles of GFO.

Ralph do you rinse your GFO before you put it in the reactor? I stopped prerinsing it and would just run like 1-2 gallons of tank water through it at the start of a water change to flush out loose particles...

 

[ralph atl]

Either way works!

I do rinse mine with rodi before to remove the fines and dust so they don't clog up the pads in the carbon canister.

 

[kirkwood]

Is this the canister that you're talking about?? You say you can run GFO in this without filter pads?

 

[ralph atl]

that's it!