https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyUERLGP60
Aquatic newbies and novices, it is NOT necessary or a good idea to use the same PUTRID water to CLEAN AND reprime/refill your cannister, or any filter. As a matter of fact, the water in that cannister should have been discarded FIRST, and those pads should have been cleaned in CLEAR part of the water from the water change. As as SIDENOTE, please realize that in "general", only the ACTUAL "bio media" in the center of the baskets needs to be cleaned in aquarium water, unless youer tank is NOT biologically stable/overstocked.
If your tank is stable, you can rinse the foam/sponge pads with a outside water hose nozzle to BLAST ALL of the detritus out of them, leading to a lower NITRATE level even. The ceramic BIO MEDIA is all thats needs to be kept from chlorine, and rinsed in aquarium water, NOT THE MECHANICAL MEDIA..... I've done it this way for over 28 years(as well as many other veteran aquarium keepers), with NO ill effects. Thats NOT to say that the sponge is not BIO ACTIVE, just saying that as long as your tank is stable and not heavily overstocked, then losing that amount of bacteria in those sponges should be NEGLIGIBLE to say the least, as there is STILL bacteria in your tank (gravel/walls/deco/additional filtration, etc) to make up for losing that small amount.
I am saying this because I keep seeeing people cleaning their filters improperly like this guy did in the video, and then they always wonder why their tanks look horrible, or smell, when what he just did was just, just UNBELIEVABLY STUPID. You're NOT removing enough of the decaying matter/detritus to keep your Nitrate levels in check.
First, He half Arse cleaned the media in EXTREMELY DIRTY WATER, and then put ALL of the dirty water and media RIGHT BACK where he started. HOW IDIOTIC have you got to be??? He essentially just WASTED HIS TIME, and likely harmed his fish MORE by doing this...
***As I have gotten older I have noticed that each generation appears to have less and less COMMON SENSE"****
Aquatic newbies and novices, it is NOT necessary or a good idea to use the same PUTRID water to CLEAN AND reprime/refill your cannister, or any filter. As a matter of fact, the water in that cannister should have been discarded FIRST, and those pads should have been cleaned in CLEAR part of the water from the water change. As as SIDENOTE, please realize that in "general", only the ACTUAL "bio media" in the center of the baskets needs to be cleaned in aquarium water, unless youer tank is NOT biologically stable/overstocked.
If your tank is stable, you can rinse the foam/sponge pads with a outside water hose nozzle to BLAST ALL of the detritus out of them, leading to a lower NITRATE level even. The ceramic BIO MEDIA is all thats needs to be kept from chlorine, and rinsed in aquarium water, NOT THE MECHANICAL MEDIA..... I've done it this way for over 28 years(as well as many other veteran aquarium keepers), with NO ill effects. Thats NOT to say that the sponge is not BIO ACTIVE, just saying that as long as your tank is stable and not heavily overstocked, then losing that amount of bacteria in those sponges should be NEGLIGIBLE to say the least, as there is STILL bacteria in your tank (gravel/walls/deco/additional filtration, etc) to make up for losing that small amount.
I am saying this because I keep seeeing people cleaning their filters improperly like this guy did in the video, and then they always wonder why their tanks look horrible, or smell, when what he just did was just, just UNBELIEVABLY STUPID. You're NOT removing enough of the decaying matter/detritus to keep your Nitrate levels in check.
First, He half Arse cleaned the media in EXTREMELY DIRTY WATER, and then put ALL of the dirty water and media RIGHT BACK where he started. HOW IDIOTIC have you got to be??? He essentially just WASTED HIS TIME, and likely harmed his fish MORE by doing this...
***As I have gotten older I have noticed that each generation appears to have less and less COMMON SENSE"****
OMG i'm dying on the floor laughing! Why the heck would someone clean out all their filter media and then dump all that nastiness Back into their filter??!! He just wasted his time and effort! Unbelievable!
