Where is the best place to get bulk carbon?
 

Im running sps and lps in my 220 gallon so Im starting to go through alot of carbon. Where is the cheapest place to get good quality carbon in bulk?

Bulk Reef Supply

X2 - BRS has great stuff. Best place to get Phosphate remover too.

Does it cost alot to ship a 5 gal pail to Canada?

BRS ships all Canada shipments on Fridays so you pay no duty. If you log onto their site, it will quote you on shipping.

Given that you are in Calgary, I would think that you could get a group order going and help pay for that shipping bill.

you can get some fairly big sizes of carbon from jl also,i had no complaints with it, but im gonna order from bulk reef supply this time.

Let me know when you are going to order. Maybe we can split shipping.

I'm in for some GFO phosphate remover if you want to look at a group buy.

LMK

Does anyone have any expierience with doing a group buy? How do you set it up with BRS?

Looks like the shipping will still be alot for a 5 gal pail. Any local retailers that have similar prices?

im possibly making an order tonight or tomorrow, i wasn't really planning on making a group buy or anything but if you want something send me a pm and ill check how much the shipping goes up and all that fun stuff.

If you buy 44 lbs of Kent Reef Carbon from J&L it comes to $6.51 per pound. Liginite Carbon from Bulk Reef Supply comes to $8.45 per pound and ROX comes to $15.35 per pound... give or take depending on the exchange rate for a 45 lbs purchase from them. So are these other options really worth it over the Kent stuff?

Cooking Carbon, Yum!
 

Back when I was running lots of carbon pellets on my fresh water 20 years ago I would take my used carbon and cook it in a BBQ for an hour as hot as I could make it. After cooling it seemed good as new.