Soaking Carbon (1 Viewer)

[RR-MAN]

I soak the carbon in 1 gallon of RO/DI water for a couple of weeks before use in the reactors. Does it lose it's effectiveness or not? I don't think it does but I just want to make sure.


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[cliner]

RODI is pure, it shouldn't affect it I think. I am curious now. What made you do this? I just rinse and in RODI and put in service. Maybe your onto something

 

[paraletho]

I do the same thing. I use ROX and about half of it is floaters. Since the pellet size is so small on this floaters end up going through the top sponge filter in the reactor and I hate to just throw them out from the start. I presoak a couple of changes so its always ready.

 

[fightmeaboutit]

The most effective thing to do to carbon is place it in water heated to just before boiling an let it soak an cool down for 24 hours it removes the air from the fine pores making the carbon more effective

 

[cliner]

Ahh! Interesting, but does anyone know for sure if there any disadvantages of this soaking.

 

[fightmeaboutit]

When you put the carbon in the hot water all the air bubble rise to the top so does all the dust I started doing this when I switched over to zeovit an haven't seen any negative effects

 

[RR-MAN]

RODI is pure, it shouldn't affect it I think. I am curious now. What made you do this? I just rinse and in RODI and put in service. Maybe your onto something

No carbon is phosphate free. I don't care how they advertise it. So rinsing it with RO/DI water a few times I'm sure is a good idea. Also, I notice an oily film on the water surface when I rinse it.
I'm using BRS carbon.

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