Can I put HOB filter in dishwasher?

[CarpCharacin]

On the aquaclear filters, the pumps are very easy to remove. If you twist them to the left, they just come out. Don't rinse your filter with soap if you are just regularly cleaning it. If you are cleaning a used filter before you put it in the tank, just submerge it in warm water, not dish water and remove the pump. Even if you are just cleaning it to go into storage, I would not recommend using dish water.

 

[Frank Castle]

Again, you are totally blowing this out of proportion. The OP proposed the idea - I didn't put it in his head. I offered my thoughts on it and I'm sorry you took offense.

Clearly we differ on keeping filter cleaning separate from dishes. I have never come across someone who feels that way about washing filters in the kitchen sink. I once knew a guy who didn't like the dog bowl getting washed in the sink. Whatever. If that's your hangup then that's your prerogative. Having maintained tanks for about 100 people I can assure you that nobody has ever told me not to wash filters in the kitchen sink.

As a scientist in the field I know a little more about this than just "common sense". I have had classes on zoonotic diseases for school AND work. So no amount of "common sense" teleology is gonna convince me that dishes dirty from fish water are any more of a concern than the stuff that simply proliferates on dirty dishes from human use.

I trust my soap. That's the bottom line. If you don't trust soap then I guess you're just more paranoid than most of the world. And here's a chilling thought: every restaurant washes their dishes with soap. OOOOOH SCARY!

 

[predatorkeeper87]

Hello; This has not been the case for me over the last four decades. From time to time, maybe once a year, I take my HOB's off the tank and give them a rinse with a garden hose. I am careful to not wet the sealed motor directly. Usually the hose will rinse out whatever happens to be in the filter.

I was intrigued when I first read about the practices of using tank water to gently rinse things such as the filter media and now the filter itself. I take it the idea is to preserve the beneficial bacteria (bb). This has not been a problem.

There are some ways to mitigate the bb question. First being keeping the established filter media wet, which can be put back into the filter housing after the filter is clean. Another is to not clean the siphon tubes at the same time as they should have colonies of bb on their surfaces.

A practice I have used for decades is to run some sort of air operated device in all may tanks along with a HOB. These devices (sponge filters, UGF's, bubbler operated HOB's and /or simply air stones will create some water flow. It is my take that the bb colonize many surfaces in a tank, not just the power filters, and will be on surfaces around water flow.

If my decades of experience itself seems not enough there is an article about cycling I can post a link to. In this article a small segments refers to the tennacity of the bb and that they are not easily rinsed away. Regardless, run your tanks any way you see fit and good luck.

Back to the OP's question. The heat of a dishwasher alone should be enough to ruin the filter. If the OP happens to give it ago, lets hope the results are posted.

this. I rinse all my filter media under warm tap water (its a well, so no chlorine) and I've never had a crash. just saying, your filter media shouldn't be the only place you have bacteria growth...that's just dangerous to me.

 

[Hendre]

I would run an airpump but one is busted in the diaphragms and the other rusted out. I do not have much in the tank so just having an ac110 creates enough flow and has loads of bio

 

[predatorkeeper87]

Man...I rinse my filter media in my tub, my filters in my kitchen sink, my ferret's diet is prepared in my sink (raw meat) and I wash my dishes in my sink. Cleanliness goes a long way, the risk of cross contamination is minimal with a little prep work between things you have in the sink lol.

You pansies worried about contracting something from your fish...good lord. This is why our society is constantly sick, everyone disinfects 24/7 lol. My channel cat throws half a gallon of water out of the tank every time I feed him, he's gotten real good at hitting me in the face with it too now, still haven't died from the creepy crawlys in my tank water.

 

[Hendre]

Man...I rinse my filter media in my tub, my filters in my kitchen sink, my ferret's diet is prepared in my sink (raw meat) and I wash my dishes in my sink. Cleanliness goes a long way, the risk of cross contamination is minimal with a little prep work between things you have in the sink lol.

You pansies worried about contracting something from your fish...good lord. This is why our society is constantly sick, everyone disinfects 24/7 lol. My channel cat throws half a gallon of water out of the tank every time I feed him, he's gotten real good at hitting me in the face with it too now, still haven't died from the creepy crawlys in my tank water.

I just pull up the garden hose and rinse earthworms in the bath sink.

Edit: i clean worms in the sink and fill the tank with the garden hose

 

[Frank Castle]

Man...I rinse my filter media in my tub, my filters in my kitchen sink, my ferret's diet is prepared in my sink (raw meat) and I wash my dishes in my sink. Cleanliness goes a long way, the risk of cross contamination is minimal with a little prep work between things you have in the sink lol.

You pansies worried about contracting something from your fish...good lord. This is why our society is constantly sick, everyone disinfects 24/7 lol. My channel cat throws half a gallon of water out of the tank every time I feed him, he's gotten real good at hitting me in the face with it too now, still haven't died from the creepy crawlys in my tank water.

but you don't dump fish-water or raw met ON the dishes in the sink,.......you take the dishes out 1st...


.....don't you?

 

[Pomatomus]

but you don't dump fish-water or raw met ON the dishes in the sink,.......you take the dishes out 1st...


.....don't you?

Wait so if you don't let raw meat touch your dishes then what do you use to hold raw meat?! Do you wear gloves when putting your hands in the tank?

Seriously though, as someone who spends up to 6 hours a day in fish tanks I find this mentality very intriguing and entertaining. I'm studying it!

 

[Frank Castle]

Wait so if you don't let raw meat touch your dishes then what do you use to hold raw meat?! Do you wear gloves when putting your hands in the tank?

Seriously though, as someone who spends up to 6 hours a day in fish tanks I find this mentality very intriguing and entertaining. I'm studying it!

and I find you to be splitting hairs. You get the idea, stop being a girl.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

Why is this thread still going on?

This is ridiculous like the presidential election. A woman hitler and a Jewish hitler