Keeping the Nitrogen cycle going

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Graywolf74

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I am just starting a 10 gallons tank, and have been reading everything I can get my hands on about aquariums. I just have a concern about keeping the nitrogen cycle going. If you change out the filter, you are loosing the bacteria in there.


Just curious.. any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
well a lot of people will keep their filter until it is the nastiest thing alive. I generally just rinse it out in tank water and put the filter pad back in. Sometimes if I have a filter with multiple pads I change one out and leave the other.

Also there should be enough bacteria in the tank anyway to support the fish's bio-load.
 
With my Filstar XP2 filter, I take out some of the aquarium water and rinse out the black foam pads and the ceramic rings out with it. I then replace the activated charcoal and the so-called "polishing pad". The bulk of the bacteria live in the rings, so you don't want to throw that out or rinse it out with tap water.
 
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