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![]() I just wanted to give a warning out to any of you that bought "HBH" brand "AQUA-PURE" carbon on a Boxing day sale to not use it. It is contaminated with metals and has been very detrimental to my reef. Unfortunately I ran it for a month with it leaching into my system before I figured it out. Any of you that were at the frag meet would have witnessed some of the damage it was causing to my corals. I thought it was a potassium over dose but I now believe this stuff is my real problem. Here is what I found when I checked my media bags. $30 for a case seems like a good deal until it kills a thousand bucks worth of corals. As usual - you get what you pay for-
![]() ![]() Here's a few pieces I took out for inspection. RUST = METAL! YIKES! ![]()
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![]() OMG Greg!!!
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ca- 435 alk -8 Mag -1380 Sg -1.026 PH - 8.1 - 8.45 etc. That is why it was so hard to figure out. It's been a real head ache and very costly and has set my reef back big time. At least I now know the problem. I should have known better than to by cheap carbon. I'm hoping things recover quickly.
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![]() Well I don't think that brand of carbon is usually all that cheap pricewise but I certainly don't think its one of the better carbons to begin with. I am a stickler about stuff in my tank after more than a few issues, but that is a pretty steep learning curve as you've already experienced. But I think you said it was $30 for a case? Thats enough to tempt anyone
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![]() WHHHATTT!!! Greg If I were you I would be having one nasty phone call with the customer service department. Thank you for the heads up though, I will never use product from that company again. (I really hope everything perks back up for you, do you have any plans to pull the metals out of your water?)
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![]() Greg, I don't know if you've ever tried polyfilters/polypads? I've had success with them before, you might want to look into getting some to remove the metals in your water.
Heres a link to them, maybe you can find them locally: http://oceanaquatics.com/store/produ...7/Poly-Filter/
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