What to put in my reactor poll!!

[BullyBee]

I can’t decide what to put in my reactor for my FOWLR. You guys say carbon is fine. My LFS says GFO And my research says bio pellets. Confusing, right?

So let’s look at pros and cons (to show you guys I’m not being lazy about this)

.8 Rod Carbon- makes water crystal clear but needs replacing every week in reality (according to BRS). I don’t want to combine with gfo bc I’m wasting gfo doing that

GFO- prevents algae and lasts way longer than carbon. May be overkill for FOWLR

BIO Pellets- makes my good bacteria nice and beefed up, however this is usually used when you need to fix an issue and not as something you start with (Atleast in what I read)

So I’m gonna come out and say I do have a second reactor...just in case.

 

[Bryknicks]

Do you have plans on changing to reef or will the tank remain FOWLR?

 

[BullyBee]

If I wanted to do corals I would just do maybe a few softies. I wanna put a puffer or two in the tank

 

[homer1475]

I would hate to inform you, GFO will be exhausted well before the carbon is, deopending on your levels. So that assumption is wrong.

With that said, unless you have a phosphate and/or nitrate problem, Carbon is the only thing I would be putting into a reactor.

 

[Bryknicks]

Yes as you would only want soft corals, as homer said, the only thing worth running would be carbon. With the exception that you already have nutrient issues.

 

[BullyBee]

Yes as you would only want soft corals, as homer said, the only thing worth running would be carbon. With the exception that you already have nutrient issues.

Thank you all! Carbon it is.