Does carbon bleach your corals ? (Kent carbon recall)

[daniella3d]

That's what I want to know. I will have my water analysed by a pro lab Thursday. I had done this analyse for heavy metal and all metal about a month ago, so I will be able to compare. We will also run carbon in a bucket and anayle that water, just to see how much of the metal could have leached.

My greatest concern is if the liverock have absorbed these heavy metal. I will now use polyfilter for a few months until my system return to total normality.

You don't have to flush the tank. I will post here my result on my tank as how far this contaminant went and how much of it still remain.

Originally Posted by kien

I don't think that it'll be easy to tell if a particular batch of carbon is good or bad

Another thing I'm worried about now is, once you put bad carbon into your tank, how easy would it be to get all that nasty stuff out??? It's almost like you have to flush the tank just to be sure.

[George]

Kent is recalling their carbon...
http://www.kentmarine.com/news/news-...arine-reef.htm

[Lampshade]

Wow, i tried new lights..... i tried new biopellets... i tried new powerheads.... I did 100+ gallons of water changes this month... and the whole time it was my damn carbon. Well, at least this way i had an excuse to buy a whole bunch of stuff for the tank. And now i can hopefully recover most of my SPS other than the 4-5 lost colonies.

The concern is that the batch of carbon contained unusually high levels of heavy metals which have an adverse effect on stony corals and clams in marine settings.

And all this time i though carbon sucked trace minerals out of my water....

Kent carbon in the garbage, any chance of me buying Kent ANYTHING again? NEVER!

I'm running out of brands to buy stuff from... so many ways to crash a reef tank and frustrate a reefer.