Carbon "Reactor"?

[bowfront]

Kind of hit and miss. I personally now change out Phosban at about 6 weeks for my system. I started out changing it out every month and have increasing it slowly to see what works best. Good stuff this ferric oxide phosphate remover IMO.

 

[dgasmd]

Glad to see this question, for I was about to post about something similar. I ahve been using phosban since MACNA where I got some free samples from Julian Sprung. Along with my water changes, it is the only thing in 9 months that has almost erradiacted my man eating bryopsis epidemic. It is not gone 100%, but the tiny patch that is left could be plucked by hand very easily. Before, there was so much of it I was almost afraid of being eaten alive by it.

I thought that having the bags suspended in the sump was helpful, but like chrisrd, I fell it would be more efficiently used if I put it in some sort of chamber where water flows right through every grain. I was going to ahve someone build me a custom chamber, but I think I will just get 2 of these and divide the output from my UV filter to run through both of them. That should work well I think.

I've never used activated carbon actually, but I may just get 4 chamber altogether and have 2 with phosban and 2 with carbon. Let the carbon go first and from there into the phosban. I don't even need any new pumps since I can put this outlet to work as said above.
Just an idea.

 

[dwall174]

Thanks for the link Bowfront!
I read another article similar to the one you posted. The one I read suggested to run the carbon in a chemical reactor as I mentioned before, & to supply the water by a small powerhead ran on a timer?