How often do you clean the hoses leading to and from your canister filter(s)?
- don't eat my fish
Last edited by Chicago Discus; 04-17-2012 at 07:14 PM.
Once a decade. (This means: once in 10 years.) Most of them never.
Last edited by Ioan C.; 04-17-2012 at 06:44 PM.
About every 3-4 months.
I find that if I leave it for more than 2 months my fish get cloudy eyes. Clean the hoses and the cloudy eyes goes away. I just cleaned them today and boy were they filthy.
- don't eat my fish
I never stop my biofilter, not even for one minute, unless they have must be repaired, or during a power outage, but then I use a generator for electricity.
Some of them look like this:
Maybe you have the wrong tubes, or it is something else that harms the fish, what you change unremarked when you cleanse the Tubes.
I would look for the right cause!
Last edited by Ioan C.; 04-17-2012 at 08:22 PM.
Oh man I would clean the $hit out of those hoses.....LOL...LOL...Josie
how do you clean the filter sponges (mechanical) in the filters?I never stop my biofilter, not even for one minute, unless they have must be repaired, or during a power outage, but then I use a generator for electricity.
Jim
Not at all.
I do not have sponges in the biofilters.
just asking out of curiosity. I am one that never touches the bio media also. I use (not up now though) 2 ocean clear canisters with a eheim pump. first canister was a pleated 25 micron filter which kept the canister with the bio substrat clean. I would just drain some of the dead bacteria out of the bottom drain every few months. bio stayed clean for over 3 years of non stop running
Jim