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Originally Posted by ronau
Hello,
I'm planning on running Carbon and HCGFO in separate reactors on my new, and first, marine tank. According to the calculator on BRS, I should be running 0.63 cups of Carbon and 0.78 cups of HCGFO. Are there any problems of just rounding it up to 1 cup of each?
Thanks,
Ron
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Carbon unlikely. But GFO … you want to be careful with GFO. It has a tendency to strip the water of nutrients very very quickly, which can cause problems. GFO also has a lowering effect on alkalinity in large quantities.
In my experience with GFO, less is better than more.