phosban reactor

[saltynuts]

what type or carbon are you useing. i have read that you can run two reactors one with phosban and one with carbon is that a road you would look at going.if so what are your thoughts. the carbon is just to polish the water right. sorry i just want to under stand this thing!

[christyf5]

I was using Kent carbon. Basically you can use any carbon that isn't too finely grained or if you use a finer grain just turn down the flow. You don't want the carbon rolling around in there breaking off little bits that might go into your tank. Mostly the use of the reactor increases the efficiency of the media by allowing increased contact with water as you are pushing water up through the media and allowing the water reach all areas of the media vs using a filter bag in your sump.

A lot of people have 2, one for carbon and one for phosban. While I'm running the phosban I will probably go back to running the carbon in a filter sock. I'll see how the phosban works first, if it doesn't appear to be doing anything for my tank, I'll go back to using the reactor for carbon only

[Psyire]

I've been running one for a few months now, with Seachem Seagel. I just use a maxijet 400 to feed it, and let it go. Seagel is a mixture of Phosguard & Carbon Matrix. So far I have no complaints, but I wasn't using it to fix a problem either, more so as to avoid future problems.