I FORGOT TO RINSE NEWLY ADDED CARBON

saltwater newby · Sep 29, 2017

Hello

I was performing a water change today and because I was rushing I forgot to rinse the new carbon I just added in my reactor and did not realize until it had already been running for a few minutes. I use brs Rox 8 activated carbon. I figured it was too late to do anything about it so I let it continue running. Should I expect problems? Has anybody done this before? What issues did you run into?
thanks in advance...

Humblefish · Sep 29, 2017

You should be fine. IME; Rox 0.8 contains very little dust.

saltwater newby · Sep 29, 2017

Humblefish said:
You should be fine. IME; Rox 0.8 contains very little dust.

That’s what I’m hoping for....

Breadman03 · Sep 29, 2017

That’s my experience with ROX. I got som TLF and it took several minutes before the water ran clear-ish.

Rakie · Sep 30, 2017

I'll be honest, the ROX from BRS runs completely clear within 5-10 seconds. There's not much in it -- But id do a water change myself.

saltwater newby · Sep 30, 2017

Breadman03 said:
That’s my experience with ROX. I got som TLF and it took several minutes before the water ran clear-ish.

hello,
whats TLF?

Ubergroover · Sep 30, 2017

saltwater newby said:
hello,
whats TLF?

guessing two little fishes they make a product called hydrocarbon

eatbreakfast · Sep 30, 2017

I wouldn't worry about it this once. Continual exposure to carbon dust has been leaked to HLLE, but that's over an extended period of time, but this instance wouldn't cause that. There will be no other negative impacts.

saltwater newby · Sep 30, 2017

eatbreakfast said:
I wouldn't worry about it this once. Continual exposure to carbon dust has been leaked to HLLE, but that's over an extended period of time, but this instance wouldn't cause that. There will be no other negative impacts.

hello

this is good news....thank you

penguin_free · Oct 3, 2017

Brs rox 0.8 has so little dust in it that I don't even bother to rinse it anymore; just plug and play. Hasn't seemed to cause any issues at all.

zachxlutz · Oct 3, 2017

penguin_free said:
Brs rox 0.8 has so little dust in it that I don't even bother to rinse it anymore; just plug and play. Hasn't seemed to cause any issues at all.

Likewise, I run the line from my reactor to a 5 gallon bucket after changing the BRS Rox 0.8 and I barely see any darker water. I only rinse for a few seconds. I really don't think it has much dust at all.

penguin_free · Oct 3, 2017

zachxlutz said:
Likewise, I run the line from my reactor to a 5 gallon bucket after changing the BRS Rox 0.8 and I barely see any darker water. I only rinse for a few seconds. I really don't think it has much dust at all.

That's what I had been doing. Since I could barely see anything in the bucket water, I was dumping it back into the filter sock anyway...,

racin2438 · Oct 16, 2017

Hmmm, I actually did this today (Red Sea--Reef Spec) carbon.....just forgot..brain fart.....but all looks good.

hope yours had no issues..

saltwater newby · Oct 16, 2017

racin2438 said:
Hmmm, I actually did this today (Red Sea--Reef Spec) carbon.....just forgot..brain fart.....but all looks good.

hope yours had no issues..

None that I know of...