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Re: [APD] Diatom carbon



Does bring up another question. If you were to filter coffee through a
diatom filter, could it pull the coffee out of the water?

I also wanna know - How did the coffee taste after that?

----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>
To: "aquatic plants digest" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [APD] Diatom carbon


> The Vortex stuff has diatoms mixed in, doesn't it?
>
> The grinding should give you more surface area, at least,
> untils it packs up on the media holder and loads with
> "stuff" from the tank water.
>
> Grinding your own? I have two questions:
>
> Isn't it kind of messy?
>
> How did the coffee taste afterwards?
>
> Have filters, have fun,
> Scott H.
>
> --- "Richard J. Sexton" <richard at aquaria_net> wrote:
> > My diatom filter came with the (very) finely powdered
> > carbon
> > that I use from time to time. I'm out.
> >
> > I threw some GAC in a coffee grinder and ground it up. It
> > worked
> > great; I can't say it's quite as fine as the Vortex stuff
> > but it
> > does do the trick till I can order more of the right
> > stuff. Or
> > I may not now.
> >
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