Losing fish to vortechs :(

[cwatkins]

Originally Posted by abcha0s@conceptaquatics

You really must rinse your carbon. There is a suspected link between carbon dust and HLLE. - Brad

Or just buy the Carbon from BRS that has minimal dust.

I don't rinse mine, what I do is just let the first few gallons of water run through it into a pale, and then when the water is running clear then I put the output back into the sump. In effect this is rinsing it, but it's much easier than trying to rinse it by hand at the sink.