>I have had a bad experience with carbon a few years ago. A marine tank of
>mine was steadily getting worse and worse. Everything really looked bad -
>then I remembered I had never changed my activated carbon, since starting
>the tank! When I removed the carbon the tank improved,
Carbon filtration causes more trouble in marine tanks than anything else! I
remember from my days in the aquarium trade, the number of marine hobbyists
who had bad results from using carbon. When the carbon filtration was
removed the aquarium conditions improved.
I say leave carbon filtration for the chemists in a laboratory and keep it
away from fish tanks and aquarists. Nutings better than a water change ;-)
I do 50% weekly water changes - while Baz prints the newletters :->
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
atappin at ecn.net.au
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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