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Does anybody have any recommendations for a good, relatively dust free, activated carbon?

I tried a third party brand(aquarium pharm.) to see if it was better than what came with my filer element replacements, and although it's most definitely more effective at removing odor/discoloration, it gives off dust no matter how hard I try to shake off the excess when I replace the element.

Yup i would rinse the carbon first......



Mark

I've rinsed it quite well(that goes along with 'shaking the excess'). Yet, there's still dust. This particular activated carbon just seems to disintegrate. Although, it works great when it's not clogging my sponge pre-filter.

Just a note, I was googling and found this highly informative page on activated carbon....

http://www.drhelm.com/aquarium/carbon.html