how often do you clean your filter?

FishyMatty said:
Even though the bio wheel houses most of the nitro bact, Every part of your filter with a course surface has bacteria on it. If you have a heavy bio load you are going to want to still use tank water and only change out one piece of media at a time.
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Shoot you beat me too it!
 
Actually, what I said was the biowheel was the part that was designed to hold the bacteria and that you don't necessarily need it on the rest of the filter. I like to scrub the scum off of mine. Between the biowheel and the gravel in the tank, I consider that plenty of bacteria. The stuff that ends up in the scum on the side of the filter, and in the bottom with the scum, and then clogs up the spray bars, I don't really consider necessary.

But like I said, to each their own...have at it!
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Weekly on all filters.
 
Complete breakdown/cleaning every 5-6 months. Intake tubes, sponges every week. Aquaclears.

Tom
 
So far I haven't and I've been re-introduced to fishkeeping since January. But every now and then a piece of gunk comes out of the tube and it just gets vacuumed up at the next water change. I'm scared of killing off my bacteria with too much cleaning so I live by the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule. The water gets a 40% change every week and gravel gets vacuumed. All I do otherwise is dump the filter water out and swish the floss in the old tank water and put it back in. I don't change the carbon either.

Stasia
 
Carbon wheres out in a few weeks so that needs to be replaced, but the swishing of the other media is the way to go,cleaning the scum off the filter housing also needs to be done, your benificial bactiria is in the media, gravel, on your decorations, gravel vacuming does'nt remove bact..


:dance2:
 
I rinse the foam sponges and biomax in the Aquaclear every week when doing a water change.
 
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