Fine filter material cleaning trick; let it dry out before flushing.

I’m sure this would work for socks and anything else.. but once these fine materials are dirty the water just rolls right off of it… pretty much impossible to flush. But if you keep a spare so that you can let the dirty one dry out, when you go to flush it then all the crap just comes right out.

Just found this out myself on my giant filter bags. I was toying with clamping a hose fitting to it so that I can pressurize it from the inside... but this turned out to be even better.

rodger said:

I throw them in washing machine dirty wet and moldy. Come out clean and I took a nap.

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the problem with that is your filters get a bunch of soap residue... unless you only ever use bleach in that machine.

Did you ever see the scams online where they sell plastic "soap balls" for washing clothes that last forever? Then people swear that they can see soap bubbles in the wash when they use them. Well, its just soap residue from on your clothes and left in the machine.

it obviously hasn't been enough to hurt your fish yet, but there would be residue.