Boiling carbon?

[shrimpchips]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Yeah I'm not going to boil my carbon thinking it's recharged. I'm tossing mine. Like Oceanic stated it seems to clean it before it's used at all a little.

+2. I'll boil just as a pre-rinse if in fact it does do a better job of cleaning the powdered carbon out than a simple pre-soak.

[mr.wilson]

Originally Posted by shrimpchips

+2. I'll boil just as a pre-rinse if in fact it does do a better job of cleaning the powdered carbon out than a simple pre-soak.

Yeah, by all means I agree it's the right way to wash new carbon. You are supposed to use RO/DI water but I don't think there are enough impurities in the small amount of water it takes to initially wash it to worry about it. The impurities taken up in tap water are much smaller in size than what we pull out of our tanks.

[shrimpchips]

yeah, I that's true. I always use RO to soak/wash since I have it on hand anyways. Force of habit from the lab too.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by shrimpchips

Force of habit from the lab too.

I hear those 'labs' are always blowing up dude. Please be careful.

[shrimpchips]

They only blow up if you're stupid. Or careless.

Both of which I can accuse myself of being, unfortunately more often than not.

[lastlight]

Hmm. I think my methlab joke went under the radar. What sort of lab do you really work in?