Activated Carbon

[psycho-killer]

hey all,

i have activated carbon in my filter setup just waned to know,they say if you clean the carbon using boiled water it re-activates the carbon to a certain extend is that true ?

 

[steelhealr]

I don't think many use activated carbon at all in their setups. SH

 

[Musho3210]

no, you need a furnace to go in the thousands of degrees to reactivate them lol.

 

[AK77]

No idea about the regeneration. Its possible that some of the chemicals absorbed by the carbon might be leeched back out in pure water.

I don't use carbon in my setup. I know Lynden does and I think Ski does too. I was suffering with phosphate/cyano problems which are now being brought into line since running GFO's and removing the carbon from my sump.

I might perform a test on the active carbon I have left, with some fresh RO water, leave it for 2 weeks and see how much the phosphates are increased by it. Would definitely be interesting to see.

Carbon certainly does "polish" the water and I might consider going back to it in the future once my algae woes are over.

 

[SkiFletch]

I do use carbon. As a mater of fact, I use carbon AND granular ferric oxide (GFO aka phosban aka rowaphos) in socks in the sump. Tomorrow (saturday) I'm gonna try my hand at building a reactor so that I can ditch the socks

 

[robbhp]

would love to see how you will do that ski

rob

 

[SkiFletch]

would love to see how you will do that ski

rob

Hah, yeah me too. Ran into a pretty significant problem while attempting to make it. Early on I realized that my lathe was unable to support/secure the acrylic stock i wanted to use for the top and bottom plates... The cuck wasn't big enough, so I had to scrap the project

 

[Musho3210]

lathe, cuck, how come we never learn this stuff in school?

 

[Adrinal]

If a system uses it or not... not a big question, but, It is good to always have it on hand with whatever delivery method you like. You never know when something nasty might spill into the tank or need a quick clean up. Great to clean up yellowing water too.

Really, 100% waterchange isn't always an option in an emergency, GAC to the rescue.

 

[robbhp]

would love to see how you will do that ski

rob

Hah, yeah me too. Ran into a pretty significant problem while attempting to make it. Early on I realized that my lathe was unable to support/secure the acrylic stock i wanted to use for the top and bottom plates... The cuck wasn't big enough, so I had to scrap the project

rob

 

[Lynden]

lathe, cuck, how come we never learn this stuff in school?

I've used a lathe in school, but I'm still not sure what a 'cuck' is...

 

[SkiFletch]

The chuck is the part of the lathe that holds the work in place, sometimes referred to as the "head" of the lathe. Usually circular with 3 or 6 teeth that grab the work and hold it level so you can do whateve it is you want to do to it. The teeth on my chuck only open up to accept about 4" diameter stock rod, and the solid acrylic rod I had was 5"