Do you Clean your Ballz??

[scubasteve06]

"Do you Clean your Ballz??"

Back a few years ago my wife used to help me at it.
We enjoyed the chance to be side by side busy doing things we both really liked to spend hours doing.
We had fun with it, made sorta of a nite for us.

But after a while my wife just got sick and tired of helping me clean them when she had her own stuff that was in need of a good scrubbing rub down.
And the fact is that no matter how clean you get them they are just filthy later from being used.

I talked my wife's sister about it and she came over to the house and helped my wife and I a few times.
Oh, they were some fun nights I remember!

But then in return my wife had to go over to her sister's house the next weekend and help them clean her husband's so I always felt a little left out of the fun.

What I do lately is wait for them to get real dirty, then I will post s notice at church and try to find some young boy or girl to come over to the house and clean them for me while I watch TV.

Im told they have some videos you can down load off a website if you want to know more how to do it?

ROFL tears coming out laughing too good.

 

[ettfettbranamn]

"Do you Clean your Ballz??"

Back a few years ago my wife used to help me at it.
We enjoyed the chance to be side by side busy doing things we both really liked to spend hours doing.
We had fun with it, made sorta of a nite for us.

But after a while my wife just got sick and tired of helping me clean them when she had her own stuff that was in need of a good scrubbing rub down.
And the fact is that no matter how clean you get them they are just filthy later from being used.

I talked my wife's sister about it and she came over to the house and helped my wife and I a few times.
Oh, they were some fun nights I remember!

But then in return my wife had to go over to her sister's house the next weekend and help them clean her husband's so I always felt a little left out of the fun.

What I do lately is wait for them to get real dirty, then I will post s notice at church and try to find some young boy or girl to come over to the house and clean them for me while I watch TV.

Im told they have some videos you can down load off a website if you want to know more how to do it?

You bastard! You just killed of any chance for anyone else to be funny!

 

[DasArab]

"Do you Clean your Ballz??"

Back a few years ago my wife used to help me at it.
We enjoyed the chance to be side by side busy doing things we both really liked to spend hours doing.
We had fun with it, made sorta of a nite for us.

But after a while my wife just got sick and tired of helping me clean them when she had her own stuff that was in need of a good scrubbing rub down.
And the fact is that no matter how clean you get them they are just filthy later from being used.

I talked my wife's sister about it and she came over to the house and helped my wife and I a few times.
Oh, they were some fun nights I remember!

But then in return my wife had to go over to her sister's house the next weekend and help them clean her husband's so I always felt a little left out of the fun.

What I do lately is wait for them to get real dirty, then I will post s notice at church and try to find some young boy or girl to come over to the house and clean them for me while I watch TV.

Im told they have some videos you can down load off a website if you want to know more how to do it?

 

[xxt2goodxx]

The "nitrate factory" thing is a reef keeping issue. You cannot denitrify waste in FW as you can in SW (with live rock, deep sand beds, etc.), but nitrates aren't the problem they are in salt either.

ANY FW filter could be termed a nitrate factory as nitrates are the byproduct of any healthy filter system. The amount is always in exact correspondence to the amount of waste nitrified. The END of the cycle is when you change water (i.e. eliminating the nitrates).

To answer the original question, if your bio-balls are properly prefiltered you should never have to clean them.

i prefilter mine and over the years they will gunk up so clean 1/2 at a time or 1/3 every 3-6 months just dont clean them all at once or too much.... you will loose too much BB and the cycle will start over again

 

[Kobeclone]

I don't, my ballz are in prefiltered water.

 

[Fish Eat Fish]

To answer the original question, if your bio-balls are properly prefiltered you should never have to clean them.

not true. Unless your running a RO before you get to your bio media that is incorrect. Overtime crud WILL build up and it should be removed. All you have to do is clean only a small portion at a time. The amount of BB left in the other balls will be able to keep up and grow the BB back very quickly. With this system, over time your balls will always stay squeaky clean!