Suggestions needed in how to get carbon into my tank.

jodilynn

jodilynn

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I have had a 29G tank set up for about 9 months. It has about a 3 inch sand bed, 35-45 lbs live rock, remora skimmer, sand filter, many different soft corals and 5 fish (six line wrass, neon goby, small tomato clown, purple firefish and a big bangaii cardinal). The my friend just brought me the six line and I am to give him the bangaii, so ...soon there will only be 4. I also have a dozen or so blue legged crabs, one bumblebee snail, one other big mexican turbo snail. As for chemicals that I put in the tank I put in the 2 part B-Ionic solution (calcium and alkinity) and I feed the corals dried phytoplankton ever 3 or 4 days. The fish I feed every other day and so far everything looks super. I have just heard that I need to get a source of carbon in the tank and I don't know how. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Jodilynn :p
 
gregzbobo

gregzbobo

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Get a filter bag at your lfs, and put some GOOD activated carbob in it, tie it shut, and stick it in your sump in a place of high flow. I use Chemi-pure rather than carbon though, seems to work a bit better.
 
robn70

robn70

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I do the same thing with my setup. Just stick in filter bag in area of high water flow. For carbon it seams like a lot of folks are using Marineland's Black Diamond brand.
 
jodilynn

jodilynn

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I do not have a sump so is there some sort of freestanding carbon filter that I can put in the tank? I am a bit clueless as to how to go about it. I have hanging on my tank a remora skimmer, sand filter, and one powerhead that is just moving the water. Is there a way I can get another powerhead that can pass carbon into the water?
Thanks
Jodilynn:(
 
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You don't happen to have an old HOT power filter laying around, like the rest of us, do you? If so just put the bag, as suggested above, in the filter(with nothing else) and fire away...
 
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