Cleaning Canister Filter

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joshv155

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Have a Fluval 406. When I clean it and put it back together I prime the filter and all sorts of nasty stuff comes out of the return pump into the tank. I'm assuming its all stuff that is in the tubes and gets forced out when priming the pump. Now my tank is cloudy. Do you clean the tubes that go to the filter into the tank and how ? Just run water through them ?
 
When it gets to bad I just replace the hose but I have took a small brush that looks like a baby bottle brush and cleaned them that way
 
Long pipe cleaner. Can pick up at just about any LFS.

DIY - A wad of napkin and a wooden dowel of appropriate length.
 
Long pipe cleaner. Can pick up at just about any LFS.

DIY - A wad of napkin and a wooden dowel of appropriate length.

Haha that's the name of it ^^ I couldn't think of it for the life of me. But I did buy it at a hardware store with there paint spray gun cleaning kits
 
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