How to run Rox 0.8 carbon?

[RoscoPColtrane]

I have been trying to find a convenient way to run this carbon but the size is so small that it is challenging. What do you use?

I have a BRS reactor but would like to avoid using another pump and the maintenance hassle. I don't mind running it passively. My latest set up is a 6 inch length of 4" PVC with nylons covering the ends but it makes a mess when I need to exchange the carbon. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[AmherstReef]

I run mine in a TLF reactor.

 

[cardiffgiant]

I used a BRS chamber for years. It became kind of a maintenance hassle and I decided to try just putting it in a mesh bag between two baffles in my sump. That seems to work out well (i.e. results seem to be the same while using the same amount of carbon and for the same amount of time), which is great because I accidentally dropped my BRS canister and broke it.

 

[tent boy]

Mesh bag and near the baffles just like cardiffgiant. Seems to work.

 

[RoscoPColtrane]

Thanks for the replies. Where did you get mesh bags? I assume most of the online stores have these but have you seen them locally?

 

[Addiction2SPS]

Same as others been saying. Mesh bag between baffles to get flow through it. It's cer convenient to change too.

 

[GSMguy]

You can get media bags pretty much everywhere. Petco has them.

 

[cardiffgiant]

I got my mesh bags from BRS. I tie mine to a piece of PVC so that I can suspend them in the middle of the flow.

 

[RoscoPColtrane]

Perfect, thanks again.

 

[tmz]

I run some in a brs reactor, with extra sponges added to contain it. I run some in an old fluval canister filter in fine mesh bags.