Does the carbon in a filter remove trace minerals and salts from the aquarium water? I want to add Kent trace minerals and their cichlid water cemistry salt to my tank full of africans and am cautious about adding it because i have carbon in there. Any advice about the situation?
Quick carbon question...
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Very fresh carbon will adsorb some heavy metals with bivalent (double positive) charges. Copper is the one some plant gurus are concerned about. I wonder if any aquarium plant anywhere ever truly pined away for lack of copper !
About the third day the activated carbon is in the filter, you can stop worrying about it picking up any more copper. After a week it's just carbon gravel covered with biofilm, and its life as chemical filter is over.
Read Tim Hovanec's carbon articles archived at www.marineland.com. Enter the Marineland Labs side (on the right) and go to "Dr. Tim's articles."
Two classic articles. Some of Dr Tim's other stuff is worth bookmarking too!
About the third day the activated carbon is in the filter, you can stop worrying about it picking up any more copper. After a week it's just carbon gravel covered with biofilm, and its life as chemical filter is over.
Read Tim Hovanec's carbon articles archived at www.marineland.com. Enter the Marineland Labs side (on the right) and go to "Dr. Tim's articles."
Two classic articles. Some of Dr Tim's other stuff is worth bookmarking too!