Rinsing Bio-Wheels?

DarkSoul

DarkSoul

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When you clean your filter pads, should a Bio-Wheel ever be rinsed off?

I cleaned my tank the other day, and gave my pads a good cleaning off, as well as my Bio-Wheel. I just rinsed them in old tank water.

the water that was left behind was like a bluish-black kind of colour.... or maybe bluish-green..... nasty to say the least.

I gave the Bio-Wheel a good rinsing off as well, and I'm just wondering if that would affect anything?
 
I never clean my bio-wheels. I do remove any 'growth' that builds up in the "seats" that they rest in. I never have had any build-up on the wheels themselevs though. I do this monthy.
 
I rinse my biowheels in tank water occasionally. I don't get any buildup on the seats where they rest, but when I rinse the biowheels, sometimes some very small translucent particles do come off in the water. There's never any color to the water when I'm done though. Don't know why you'd have colored water afterwards.
 
I rinse my bio-wheel occasionally. my water turns super funky from rinsing my filter pads too....means they are doing their job.
 
pinkertd said:
I rinse my biowheels in tank water occasionally. I don't get any buildup on the seats where they rest, but when I rinse the biowheels, sometimes some very small translucent particles do come off in the water. There's never any color to the water when I'm done though. Don't know why you'd have colored water afterwards.
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probably because of the crap it catches :)
Im more curious about the actual colour, than the fact that it made my water dirty. Its my filter pads that made it dirty, not the wheel.
 
I thought about that after I posted. When you're washing out your filter pads you will get lots of brown gunk for sure. I rarely wash them. I know you can, but I just change out one filter cartridge on one of the filters one month and change the other one out the next month. I think the last time I ordered new cartridges I got them on sale fo $1.99 a piece. So when I buy them, I stock up ahead of time. They're still available at that price if you want to order some.
 
I made my own cartridge out of a Rite-Size C, and some finer foam I found in a poker kit.

works great, and is holding up nicely.
 
fishieperson321 said:
The only time you should ever need to rinse a wheel is if it gets so loaded down with gunk that it stops moving. As long as the wheel stays wet, though, there is really no need to rinse it.

Daniel
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if you clean it here and then it will never get stuck with gunk.
 
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