Aquarium Industry News & Education

Activated carbon is a powerful tool for achieving and maintaining good water quality. Carbon removes off-putting smells and yellowing compounds from water. Activated carbon is frangible, which means brittle or fragile. This means that you can crush it into powder easily and create dust. The carbon dust is what you don’t want inside your aquarium as it has been implicated as a possible cause for an ailment called head and lateral line erosion (HLLE) in fish. In the single study that has bee …