Cleaning Wet Dry

[redtailfool]

So how often do you clean your wet dry system? I clean the pre filter pads every week or every other week but i rarely clean the bio balls themselves. I probably do it once a year.

[piranha45]

you clean the balls using dechlorinated water right?

[redtailfool]

No i use tap...














































LOL you crack me up P45... i use my tanks water to wash my bio balls :hitting:

[PeacockBass]

I never clean the bioballs.

I clean the mechanical filtration when it needs to be.

[Aimhigher38]

If you have a lot of sludge in your wet dry then you should clean it out because it will basicly cause ammonia and nitrate in your tanks...but use tank water to rinse out the balls so you wont kill all your bacteria

[dascsh]

I clean the filters every 2 weeks, partial water changes each week, bio-balls one every few years.

[DeLgAdO]

How do you clean bio balls with tan kwater? dosent that cload your water and make it dirty of is their a trick or technique to do it???? :feedback:

[Vitaliy]

How do you clean bio balls with tan kwater? dosent that cload your water and make it dirty of is their a trick or technique to do it???? :feedback:
You take a bucket and fill it up with tank water and you clean in there. :)

[Endy Valenzuela]

You should never clean your bio-balls. Your bacteria is living on them....

[DeLgAdO]

You gotta clean the bioballs sometime cause eventually debris builds upn them and eventually nitrates will increase more rapidly. Fine Mechanical media makes a difference, the finer the media is the less often you will have to clean the bioballs.

[freeform]

well, i clean the pre filter pads weekly & do water change twice per week.

good enought to for me..... & my fishes. :p

[piranha45]

when you do clean media/bioballs, clean them with water already present in the aquarium itself so as to preserve as much bacteria as possible..

[guesswho2005]

So how often do you clean your wet dry system? I clean the pre filter pads every week or every other week but i rarely clean the bio balls themselves. I probably do it once a year.


Same here I clean all my filters pads once a week. I'm lucky in that I'm on my own well water. I rise out my bio balls annually first sign of spring.