That's what I do when I'm cleaning out Ichabod's tank. Don't rinse them under fresh water from the tap though. I have a big bucket in the outhouse that I fill with water and then let it stand for a day or two. Otherwise it kills off the good bacteria in the filters and is bad for the fish.
I rinsed it under the tap because it had green gunge all over the outside. surely the bacteria in the tank will be on because it's still there. I didn't change the water in the tank at all
I never had a tank with this before, i always had undergravel filters in the past which I cleaned when I changed the water
you may get to the stage where you need to replace the sponge. The pebbly stuff can be cleaned by swirling the box thing in water that has been neutralised. Take it out and drain it a few times too. Drain it really well before you put it back, give it a good shake and then rinse it with a couple of cups of water from the tank! We had a similar arrangement in the tanks I looked after at school. Although the spongy filter was more like natural sponge.
you don't really need to worry about a tiny amount of tap-water adhering to solid metal, glass or plastic bits after shaking most of it off - given the size of the tank, you'll not be changing the pH (acidity/alkalinity) in there significantly, nor adding any amount of fluoride (or of chlorine) noticeable without a gas chromatograph...
but scaree's advice about rinsing with water from the tank (and then throwing this rinse-water away) is good: it'll dilute the remaining few drops tap-water twice over, which is more effective than one rinse with twice the amount of tank-water.
how are the fishies doing? has the mad 'un as kept bombing up and down in/near one or other of the corners settled down yet?
fish are all fine still racing around like loonies, and guilting me for a breakfast feed
I've never had this sort of filter and like I said I couldn't find anything about my tank online
I know someone who has a tank with sponges in the filter, they have to be changed at intervals, depending on the colour of the filter. I don't know if this is the same
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I never had a tank with this before, i always had undergravel filters in the past which I cleaned when I changed the water
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you don't really need to worry about a tiny amount of tap-water adhering to solid metal, glass or plastic bits after shaking most of it off - given the size of the tank, you'll not be changing the pH (acidity/alkalinity) in there significantly, nor adding any amount of fluoride (or of chlorine) noticeable without a gas chromatograph...
but scaree's advice about rinsing with water from the tank (and then throwing this rinse-water away) is good: it'll dilute the remaining few drops tap-water twice over, which is more effective than one rinse with twice the amount of tank-water.
how are the fishies doing? has the mad 'un as kept bombing up and down in/near one or other of the corners settled down yet?
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I've never had this sort of filter and like I said I couldn't find anything about my tank online
I know someone who has a tank with sponges in the filter, they have to be changed at intervals, depending on the colour of the filter. I don't know if this is the same
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