How do you recommend i get crystal clear water?

Could I just put this in a media bag and drop it in my Skimmer?

 

+1 for carbon

I can not comment on purigen as I never used it before but it is something I will look into thats for sure.

also if you have a skimmer you can get a media bag w/ carbon and place it over the output of the skimmer. you will be amazed what you will catch in there also. I do this but for Ozone. and it catches alot of detris

 

well I can in my HOB Deltec as it has a chamber for chemical media like carbon or GFO

what skimmer are you running? if it does not interfere with the normal operation of the skimmer ( gets in the way of bubble production) then yes

Steve

 

I have a little bag of carbon with some phosphate remover in it, I think it's called chemi-pure. It's really expensive @ $17 a jar, and it's recommended to be changed every 6 months or so.

Aside from that, I have a fluval filter running aside from my sump. I use the regular blue/white filter padding in the balls box in the sump with a thick layer of the white filter floss, the fluval I have all the chambers using gradually increasing pads of the filter floss.

My water is always crystal clear. I probably won't deviate from this method.... EVAR!

 

hey everyone i just wanted to thank you for all of your suggestions about carbon use. After 2 days of use, my water already has that "is there any water in here" effect. Clear water suits my tank very nicely It makes it look so much more mature and just all around nice!!! Thank you very much i really appreciate it

 

PETCO Activated Carbon at PETCO

Like this? this carbon?

 

Yup, so far chemi-pure carbon works great in my tank.

 

i got my carbon at petco but it wasnt petco brand. it was marineland...

 

Carbon and a filter pad. Luna