Black Diamond Carbon

[ridinfast03]

I used to love black diamond but have since switched to Kent's Carbon and have notice a tremendous difference

 

[Boomer]

I find that hard to believe that is a very crappy GAC and is for Air Phase Operation.

 

[ralphie]

I was using Kent Carbon, but, after doing lots of research, I am going to use up what I have left and then switch to the Lignite Carbon from twopartsolutions.

From all my research, Kent Carbon is not one of the better ones, IMHO.

 

[humbugy]

I've been happy using Marineland Black Diamond carbon.

 

[DrBegalke]

This is a pretty good list of references on carbon:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_4/V4I2/carbon/carbon_comparisons.htm

 

[ridinfast03]

Really? I have only experienced positives with it in both my salt tank and my Turtle tank and he is really nasty and hard to keep his water clear and it has done a great job. Ill have to do some research on it I suppose.

 

[packer]

I am using and loving Warner Marine GAC. Rinses easily and really clears up the water.

 

[drd]

no more black diamond for my corals or fish tried it and had nothing but problems i am using chemi-pure and have no phos problems my marine fish do great on it as well as my discus and angelfish i am using it in my nano cube but the results are not in yet.

 

[DrBegalke]

From: http://web.archive.org/web/20000918...om/fish2/aqfm/1998/may/features/1/default.asp

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

no more black diamond for my corals or fish tried it and had nothing but problems

What problem are you attributing to it?

 

[atvdave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11663108#post11663108 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by drd
no more black diamond for my corals or fish tried it and had nothing but problems i am using chemi-pure and have no phos problems my marine fish do great on it as well as my discus and angelfish i am using it in my nano cube but the results are not in yet.

I've been using black diamond carbon for years with no problems at all. I don't run it all the time but maybe 1 week each month, depending whats all going on inside my tank.

 

[Snarkys]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11634995#post11634995 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DrBegalke
This is a pretty good list of references on carbon:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_4/V4I2/carbon/carbon_comparisons.htm

IMHO the test kit used for that really isn't accurate enough to be used in something like this .

I removed 50 ml of each carbon and placed that into a 500 ml beaker. None of the samples of activated carbon were rinsed or pretreated in any way. All produced a lot of black dust. To that, I add 250 ml of deionized water

The carbons that preformed the worst had 1ppm. this would be pretty troubling if you filled your tank up with 17% carbon. however no one does that . That would be like adding over three full five gallon buckets of carbon to your 100 gallon tank all at once. The 1ppm reading quickly becomes pretty meaningless.

imho if you are having phosphate issues the first place to look is frequency and type of foods you feed.