Cleaning filter pads

RanchuRick said:
Never replace 100% of your filter media in one shot. You'll lose most of the bacteria.

1. At each water change, rinse and squeeze out the media to clean out the dirt. You'll probably lose a small portion of bacteria that will quickly be replenished. Keep using the same media until they are too worn out.

2. Use a stack of three pieces of filter media introduced at different times, e.g. one month apart. When you have to replace some media, just replace the oldest one third. Aquaclear is a very good design to use this method. Our largest LFS is doing this with a lot of Aquaclear filters.
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Yeah,what he said.....

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Dif'rent strokes for dif'rent folks.
 
If you're worried about your media getting dirty, you can always cut a sponge and put it over the intake... More mechanical prefiltration will significantly reduce the amount of cleaning necessary to keep your Whisper at peak performance. I've noticed an improvement in water quality and the duration between rinsing my filter media in old tank water...
 
Thanks for the help!

I don't have a whisper HOB, but a profile 10, which can only fit one sponge at a time. I now put two filter pads into it, but that makes it overflow slightly out of another place instead of the place that is should.

So I'm getting that I should just change one pad at a time, and that I should clean the old pad in old tank water when I do a water change.

BTW, how many filter pads/sponges can HOB aquarclears(10 gallon model) hold? How about whisper? I mentioned that my profile10 can only hold one sufficiently, and I might want to change that filter.
 
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