This is something that i have always wondered how its done and has me kind of mind boggled. I'm going to use my sons 29G as an example. Its using a marineland c160 for the filter.
I take the canister apart and rinse all the media (or replace whichever). Put it back together and startup again. I now have no bacteria left in my filters....... If I'm correct in my assumption my tank is going to recycle. Obviously if my assumption is correct this isn't the way to change filters or clean them. How is this accomplished. The guy at the chain store when i first started just told me to once a month change out the filter (I was using a penguin 150 at the time) and keep moving along. *** already experienced a recycle of the tank after filter changing. I don't want to do this again so I'm curious how I'm supposed to go about this. Is the bacteria in the bioballs enough that it wont recycle?
I also have no clue if this even made any sense.
I take the canister apart and rinse all the media (or replace whichever). Put it back together and startup again. I now have no bacteria left in my filters....... If I'm correct in my assumption my tank is going to recycle. Obviously if my assumption is correct this isn't the way to change filters or clean them. How is this accomplished. The guy at the chain store when i first started just told me to once a month change out the filter (I was using a penguin 150 at the time) and keep moving along. *** already experienced a recycle of the tank after filter changing. I don't want to do this again so I'm curious how I'm supposed to go about this. Is the bacteria in the bioballs enough that it wont recycle?
I also have no clue if this even made any sense.