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ronald sherman
11-11-2012, 04:48 AM
i have flawless followed every bit of recommendtion i could find and studying this blog 4 a good 3-4 month's hr's a day before starting my discus tank except for 1 suggestion and was wondering the reason 4 it not using charcoal in the filter media? there is a very good reason just temporary i feel the need, that would be a tank a while too share i've read even in this blog that it can cause disease i'm remodel my apt and feel while doing so even know in not in the same room, that in chemical were too travel, too different room, the charcol would hopefully filter out before it had time too affect the discus i even have a double charcoal filter in my ventilation system and running the fan 24/7 till i'm finish i purposely nneded order the discus till i was finish the living room that i started with after a week or so that i'm done i'll stop i've change the fluval charcoal bag's every 2 wk's also i plan on taking pix of all the fish a post on the blog soon, have no cameria was wondering if anyone would know how a high resolotion webcam would turn out quality wise guess i'll find out soon.

shoveltrash
11-11-2012, 07:53 AM
there's lots of info on this here:

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?79282-Charcoal&highlight=charcoal+filtration

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?46052-Charcoal&highlight=charcoal+filtration

Eddie
11-11-2012, 03:10 PM
No need for it, the amount of water changed regularly makes it useless.