How often do you clean your canister?

[H3D]

Every 3 months or so.

 

[NeonFlux]

Sometimes it's bad to go too long because you get all the dissolved organic wastes and all. You might get what you all blue-green algae. Unless you are plantman

 

[Squawkbert]

Flow on my 2215 starts to drop off after 3 months, so I clean it out quarterly.

 

[BoredAgain]

I have Rena XP3 scheduled for monthly maintenance, but I usually let it go longer.

 

[Que]

My canisters are for bio filtration with a sponge on the intake for mechanical filtration and to keep the shrimp out. The sponge gets squeezed out once a week but the canister goes for months.

My tanks are well planted.

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[ibr3ak]

I've got 2 canisters on my tank that I alternate in cleaning about every 2 weeks, so roughly a month for each.

 

[Hooked Newbie]

Every 4 months (or so), one each month of the 4 gets cleaned.

 

[krytan]

Thanks everyone.
I do one filter a month and i have three canisters so each filter gets cleaned once every three months. I was starting to think i wasn't cleaning my filters enough because i've read some people clean theirs a lot more frequantly.

 

[ansbfish]

Got 2 XP3s and try clean one every month

 

[AnDr3w]

Longer then I should, about once every 6 months.