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Tonytony

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Hi folks
Purpose of my message is to share experience about filter.
I run a 30l cube with a tetra ex400 and glassware...

I often read that people use to clean their filter every other days and also have a bunch of media in it.

I'd like to let know folks that I run my filter with media that was provided with filter when I bought it and more important Iclean Iit twice a year

Yes twice a year and never had a problem on my tank.
.water is clean...fishes ate happy and nothing to ne worried about


So in my opinion.
There s no need to clean a filter every week or so...


Open to any questions or construsctive arguments...

Hope it helps some folks pn maintenance...let your filter run..don t about it...

Btw I do water changes every two weeks...its a cube 30l ...noco2...run with 11w of light 8 hours a day and extra 11w two hours
.aquael bulbs (by the way
.extraordinary lights)

Cheers folks
 
Ad..sorry for typo mistakes...phone characters are f****ing small..haha
 
Only filters I clean weekly are sponge filter's or pre-filter's.
Otherwise,I clean filter material ,impeller assembly,hoses,once a month on canister filter's.
Those that need to clean filter material weekly in my humble opinion,, have tank's that are overfed, overstocked,underfiltered, and or all of the above.
 
Well..I just share experience that cleaming twice a year works very well mytank and is well appreciated for me due to lower maintenance...watet stays clean as crystal for more than three weeks..I believe that filter has to do with it...if you clean your filter every week it might not be colonised by bacteria enough....
 
Tonytony said:
Well..I just share experience that cleaming twice a year works very well mytank and is well appreciated for me due to lower maintenance...watet stays clean as crystal for more than three weeks..I believe that filter has to do with it...if you clean your filter every week it might not be colonised by bacteria enough....
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Im not doubting your methods or your tank. Nor am i saying i clean mine weekly.

Surely a filter does 3 main functions within an aquarium

1) provide surface area for bacteria
2) collect debris/detritus from plants and fish
3) create water flow

Now in my opinion you can clean a filter every day without upsetting the bacterial media as this doesnt really need cleaning.

A filter will collect plant detritus but cannot remove it from the system. It needs somebody to remove it from the filter. A cleaner filter is more efficient at collecting detritus

A clogged up filter sponge due to being left for a long time surely cannot allow the same water volume to pass through. This must reduce the flow through the filter.

So IN MY OPINION a filter left for months on end is both dirty and inefficient


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Hi all,
roadmaster said:
Only filters I clean weekly are sponge filter's or pre-filter's.
Otherwise,I clean filter material ,impeller assembly,hoses,once a month on canister filter's.
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Same with me.

All my filters are only fractionally below the level of the tanks (and the hoses are exposed to day-light), so I tend to get cavitation when the hoses begin to "gunk" up. The media in the filter body will be relatively clean however long the filter has been running. I have MTS, and Asellus in the filter media as well, which probably helps.
Sk3lly said:
Surely a filter does 3 main functions within an aquarium
1) provide surface area for bacteria
2) collect debris/detritus from plants and fish
3) create water flow
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If you stop the filter doing 2. "collect debris/detritus from plants and fish" you will need to clean it much less frequently.

That is why I have a pre-filter sponge that I rinse weekly, the only thing I want in the filter is solutes like ammonia (NH3/NH4+) and dissolved gases (and I'm really only interested in dissolved O2).

Before I met fish-keepers with external filters <"I hadn't even considered that people would use them as both biological filters and siphons">.

cheers Darrel
 
dw1305 said:
Hi all, Same with me.

All my filters are only fractionally below the level of the tanks (and the hoses are exposed to day-light), so I tend to get cavitation when the hoses begin to "gunk" up. The media in the filter body will be relatively clean however long the filter has been running. I have MTS, and Asellus in the filter media as well, which probably helps.
If you stop the filter doing 2. "collect debris/detritus from plants and fish" you will need to clean it much less frequently.

That is why I have a pre-filter sponge that I rinse weekly, the only thing I want in the filter is solutes like ammonia (NH3/NH4+) and dissolved gases (and I'm really only interested in dissolved O2).

Before I met fish-keepers with external filters <"I hadn't even considered that people would use them as both biological filters and siphons">.

cheers Darrel
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Do you prefer your plant detritus to break down at substrate level rather than removing it from the system? I obviously understand decaying plant matter releases nutrients that other plants will use. Is there any negatives to this though Darrel?


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