Do you rinse your cal. media

[vinny]

The Arm media says not to rinse but I did it anyways and I got lots of sticks and a lot of cloudy water. Anybody not rinse out the calcium media.

 

[MikeG]

The Arm media says not to rinse but I did it anyways and I got lots of sticks and a lot of cloudy water. Anybody not rinse out the calcium media.

I normally just do water change through the reactor. Open the effluent all the way and run a good 10 or 15 gallons through until it runs clear, kill 2 birds with one stone

 

[vinny]

Good point Mike, anybody else with a reactor rinse out their media.

 

[Liam]

if you soak the media in ro/di for several days and change out the water daily you can alieviate alot of the phosphate that would be released later from the media.

 

[JohnK]

Also, if you ever let the PH go too low and the reactor goes clowdy, IMO/IME it's a good idea to give it a good rinse out.