I have an old water softener from a previous house. My new house needs a whole house charcoal filter. Can I change out the softener media for activated charcoal and use the same filter for whole house removal of taste etc.? If so, what steps are required?
Thanks for offering your experience. RO really won’t work for me because of my water volume. Am hoping to be able to exchange the media for charcoal in a traditional softener.

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I intend to use store-bought charcoal to remove the pollutants first. Would this work? I’m doing this because my water bills have been very high and it hasn’t rained much lately.

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Hey everyone.
My refrigerator’s water dispenser is in desperate need of cleaning… the water tastes horrible even when the filter is changed and now I started noticing that black specs are forming from the water dispenser!

Given that these specs form when water stands still, I suspect they are fungi and not bits of activated charcoal.

I drink water from the tap now so I don’t use the dispenser, but it’d still be nice to know what to do about it… it looks ugly!

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I use the brita water filters. I pour water in from a glass jar into the pitcher so that I don’t have to run water directly from the spicket. I make sure to pour slowly.
Every brita filter we use always has the charcoal specks in it the whole time we use it from start to finish.
I am getting sick and tired of the charcoal specks every time I get a drink.
Is there a brand that doesn’t leak as much charcoal or any charcoal?
Please any suggestions would help. Thanks.

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Planning on installing a whole house water filter. I am on a private well and recently the water has began to taste the "rotten egg" taste and smell. Any suggestions or comments or recommendations would be appreciated.1 bath 2 bedroom house
It is weel water, so chlorine is involved. Yes it is hydrogen sufide and not bacteria, the whole neighbor hood has the smell. I am considering LifeSource brand. Has a backflush capability and charcoal among other sediment filters.
My typing is terrible this morning. It is well water, therefore chlorine removal is not in the question. Water has been tested and is safe and good.

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I was recommended by my local aquatic retailer to try using Chemi-Pure (5oz half unit as my tank is only 20 gallons) because I have been having problems with my water being cloudy and my Ph constantly dropping. I followed all directions given including "rinsing the bag lightly before putting in the filter" and now my water is a charcoal color! My fish seem to be doing alright but is this normal? Will it clear up quickly? I have baby mollies in there and I’m concerned for them now. Please help!
phew! ok good. Thank you. I have never seen it get like that before. I guess I will rinse it a little better next time lol.
Yeah I probably should have explained this issue I’m having a little better. I have had a literally perfect tank for about a year. I do regular water changes and check my levels frequently.I bought 2 mollies about 3 weeks ago and one of them unfortunately was pregnant.(did not want babies as they are so delicate) It seems like ever since then, my water quality has deteriorated. I can’t see it being overpopulated as most of my fish have died. I have never had a spike like this, I have been using PH up for the dropping issues. Currently all I have in the tank are 1 mollie, and 1 small neon danio, and the mollie babies. I am only seeing 5 of them.As far as the product I used, it was actually very inexpensive and I do trust the store I go to as they have tutored me over the past 2 years on my aquarium. They sell nothing but aquarium items. I don;t ever trust anyone at lets say Petco or any of those other chain type pet stores. the staffs are unhelpful and unknowledgable.
Oh and I bought a new canister filter today. the tank I have is a 20 gallon and this one filtrates up to 40 gallons.

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I think that one should be able to make a simple water filteration system using bottles/buckets, sand, gravel charcoal, etc. to make reasonably clean tap water safer and tastier.Although I found some, I could not find the information that I thought would be readily available on the internet. Any suggestions?

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I just moved and couldn’t hook up my water filter to the new house’s faucet because I didn’t have the right adapter. I have now bought the adapter, and hooked it up. I’m just wondering, since I didn’t flush it prior to moving, it’s had water sitting in the chamber for a couple of weeks. Would that water, sitting over the charcoal and stuff int he filter, cause it to go bad, or even begin to spread bacteria?

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I mean, it’s a charcoal filter. Wouldn’t that filter pee into something drinkable?
I really don’t want to spend money on one unless I can drink my own urine.

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Weve been using the Brita pitcher for about 2 weeks now. Last night I poured me a glass in a white cup. A few minutes later there was a black ring of the charcoal dust at the bottom of the cup. Is that ok to drink? I know it says to run water through it a few times before using and weve done that.

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I am doing a science project, and I have to build a filter to remove sand, food coloring and oil from water. I already figured out how to seperate the sand, and oil, however, to remove the food coloring, I have to add powdered charcoal. The problem is I do not know how to remove the powdered charcoal from the water. I need the water to end up pure water. Do you guys have any suggestions?
What do you mean by "Filter"? We can’t buy a filter because we have to make our own. Do you have any suggestions of how to make it?

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I’ve heard contradictions about this so I figured I’d sollicit your opinions. Are activated charcoal water filters safe to use or does the charcoal actually seep carcinogens into the water?

I’ve never had a problem drinking water out of the tap but I figure if I can find ways to make it even cleaner and to remove water filtartion chemichals from it, why not?

The only problem is that I’ve heard that activated charcoal might actually do more harm than good. I know that as a hobby aquarist, I have never put it in my water filter since I’ve heard that after a certain while, it starts releasing all the toxins back into the water and adds some of it’s own.

any opinions on this matter?

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We normally drink bottled water at home. We use filtered tap water for our hot water. I was just wondering if tap watered filtered by Brita charcoal is safe to drink. My wife says activated charcoal does not filter out organisms or the tiny amout of parasites that might be in the municipal tap water.

I checked the label for the bottled water in the grocery store. They usually say it’s been ozonated and filtered by activated charcoal. Even the water from the spring water says it’s been filtered. That seems to tell me you need to filter out the organic impurities with charcoal and treat it with something to kill off the germs. Is that correct? Thanks.

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I’m sick of seeing those black rocks, dust, tiny particles in my Brita water. So I stopped drinking it because I thought it was unhealthy. Is it unhealthy to drink it?

It’s charcoal, so, isn’t consuming charcoal a bad thing?

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it seems such a waste. Is there anyone who offers cartridges which have screw off top or bottom so it can simply be refilled with fresh activated carbon? I can find 50 pouinds of activated carbon for like a dollar a pound. That would be about 1/20th the cost of buying a whole plastice cartridge every few months.
re: <<will it still be activated charcoal>>
Well it sat in the side of a mountain for a hundred millenium I would hope the carbon should age well sitting in a pastic bag in my closet. I mean how long do those store filters sit on the shelf before you come along and buy them? Are those still "activated" either? If anything should age pretty well I would hope it would be a charcoal rock.

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