Cleaning Time !

[yoshi191]

i know not to change all the media at onece in the filiter i just changed one basket of carbon and i noticed that the canister was sandy and had flakes of bio guck in it would it be fine to clean the canister out and the water in it with out changing the media ..and not screw up the bacteria in it ?

[Tommy Gun]

I am assuming that the same would apply for SW filters, but with my FW filtration system, I usually keep a bucket of the water from a water change to rinse/clean off the bigger chunks of stuff from the filter media. This helps make sure that the bacteria doesnt die by cleaning it off with too hot/too cold of water and it does not get shocked by being submersed in water that is very different from the water it is used to.

Again, I am not sure if this would apply exactly to SW filter media so hopefully someone else can deny/confirm this info for you but logically, I would think it would be safe to do it this way.