all hail carbon!! why?

[kwirky]

Originally Posted by fishface

interesting...what sort of reactions?

At one point my softies had some troubles. Some of the toadstools wouldn't extend their polyps (the smaller ones), and the palys would stay closed, and the finger leather would go in and out a lot.

I was talking to albert about carbon, and he said not to use a liter of carbon in my tank, because that would "rape" my softies. I discovered the correlation that I was running a liter of carbon when my softies were having problems, and it was probably the thing "raping" them

So yesterday I'd cut back on my carbon by putting the HOB filter it's in on a timer to only run 2 hours a day. I'll see how things change in the next few weeks. If nothing changes, I'm just going to leave it that way.