Can You Clean Fikter In Tank Water While Cyclung

tin can yous clean or change you lot filters when you practise a water alter on a 50 gal tank. or practise they need to be done on unlike days?

#two

nine years ago

Yous can rinse the filter media in erstwhile tank water to remove waste build up. The nasty brown/dark-green slime on the media is proficient leaner that yous dovot want to throw out or kill with chlorinated water. Rinse the filter media only once a month. Anymore could disrupt the benign bacteria and throw your tank into a mini wheel.

#three

9 years ago

And despite what the package says do not change filters unless they are falling apart. When they starting time falling apart you lot need to leave the erstwhile filter in and run information technology with the new one for a few weeks to transfer the bacteria.

Removing and replacing a filter without doing that will throw your nitrogen cycle away. A lot of your practiced bacteria lives in the filter media. If yous take it out, you have les Bactria to deal with your ammonia and you go an ammonia spike.

#4

melissa

9 years ago

what is a filter media? i hve 2regular filters that have to be inverse and 2 that stay in there (bio filter). tin can i rinse them out at the same fourth dimension i do a water change? non thr bio filters the other ones.

#5

9 years agone

Filter media is the floss, carbon, sponge, bio beads or any other blazon of filtering material you use to keep the h2o clean. Do non replace any of it even though the filter instructions volition tell you to. Just rinse information technology in quondam tank h2o to suspension upwards any waste build upwards (food, poo, etc.). It is safe to do this during a h2o change.

#vi

melissa

9 years agone

practise i demand to alter my h2o every week for a 50 gal tank. (thank you for the other suggest)i have 17 fish iii crabs two shrimp. just wondering.

#7

9 years ago

Aye, it is adept to do so with whatsoever size tank. 25% of the water at a time should be enough on understocked tanks.

#8

melissa

9 years ago

how many fish should i have for a 50 gal tank?

#nine

9 years ago

It depends on the fish yous cull and how large they get. You tin accept almost whatsoever freshwater fish in your tank and so long as they're compatible. Use the stocking <email> to help you make up one's mind what combination and how many fish volition piece of work in your tank.

#10

9 years ago

The link did not mail for some reason.

The stocking website Goldibug was referring you to is aqadvisor.com

You can input your tank size and the fish you are interested in and it will give yous information well-nigh compatibility and stocking levels. Fun to play with.

#11

Glenn Dalton

seven years ago

Carbon can soak upwardly or deposit waste into water. When y'all have a really old carbon filter you don't want to put information technology into clean water. It will release some of what it has absorbed.
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#12

7 years ago

Glenn Dalton wrote:

Carbon can soak up or deposit waste material into water. When you have a really onetime carbon filter you don't want to put it into clean water. It volition release some of what it has captivated.
Glenn Dalton

It requires 900 degrees in a zip oxygen surroundings for activated carbon to release what it'southward adsorbed. Non likely to occur in the home environment. Furthermore, tons of people don't utilize carbon at all - even if something COULD be released, how harmful can it be when all of u.s. that don't use carbon leave it all in the tank? Something to think about.

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