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How often should the bio balls in our water weir be cleaned. I understand they have to be cleaned in pond water and that I cannot use the hose with tap water - is that right?
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I think it depends on how "dirty" your filter box gets. In my box when the gunk gets too gunky (too hot here for real words
) I just rinse the balls in a bucket of pond water, loosely. Then the balls go back into the filter box. The dirty water goes to my garden!
I do this rinse only once a year, twice if DH feeds the fishies too often.
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I'll hose off my filter media, then empty most but not all of the water and sludge from my filter. But I leave the bio balls alone. You WANT that gunky stuff, to make more good bacteria in the cleaned filter.
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honestly your bio shouldn't get much if any sludge in it...that is what your machanical filter is supposed to do.....but, I have a few of those box filters I use in tanks and they Always get gunky....so everytime I clean the machanical pads then I clean the bio balls in pond water...just swish them around alittle and dump the water....
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