Wet Dry Maintenance

[redtailfool]

How often do you clean out the mechanical filter part of your wet dry? I am of course
referring to the foam, wool filter and prefilter foam of your wet dry? I just want to see
how often that gets maintained.

I clean mine every 2-3 weeks. I just rinse the pads in aquarium water and gently massage
it until it stops leaching dirt. The filter floss gets replaced after 3 weeks and i hardly touch the prefilter pads on my overflow.

 

[koliveira]

I clean mine weekly with the water change. If I don't the nitrates seem to remain high even after 60% WC.

 

[redtailfool]

I clean mine weekly with the water change. If I don't the nitrates seem to remain high even after 60% WC.

Wow .. And i thought i did mine frequently.

 

[MilitantPotato]

I'm still trying to sort mine out, but the past week I've had to rinse the filter floss out twice.

I just stuck some egg crate under the media so hopefully it won't clog as fast since the drip plate concentrated the crud above the holes and overflowed..

 

[Tongue33]

Weekly with water change as well...

 

[unknownuza13]

Wow .. And i thought i did mine frequently.

I just cleaned mine for the first time in months

 

[StiffMeister]

my sump is only running for a good week now but im planning on doing it once a week with wc too, starting monday

 

[redtailfool]

im surprised how a lot of people are doing frequent maintenance on their wet/dry.
I pay more attention to my canisters to be honest.

 

[Nic]

im surprised how a lot of people are doing frequent maintenance on their wet/dry.
I pay more attention to my canisters to be honest.

i dont even mess with my canisters unless the flow slows down. as far as my wet dry i rince when it gets bad looking usually 2 weeks. now that the rays are in there it might go to once a week...

 

[redtailfool]

i dont even mess with my canisters unless the flow slows down. as far as my wet dry i rince when it gets bad looking usually 2 weeks. now that the rays are in there it might go to once a week...

Hey Nic, i just get paranoid if my canisters dont get cleaned after 2 weeks. Just imagine 15 pieces of shrimp every feeding time and where does it all go ? I do water changes every 3 days but i want it foolproof ( or close to it ) .