Cleaning filter media?

[Deadsea]

hello everyone, just wondering how most of you clean your filter media.I know your supposed to use tank water to rinse the filters,but the problem I have is theres not enough water to clean the media well enough. By the time i rinse my media a few times the water is so full of crap and stuff it feels like iam just making it worse after the initial times of rinsing. So how do u clean if water is so dirty before you get the media clean? Not only is this more of a pain, but when u have multiple tanks to do and i use the syphon sytem to sink then you cant if u want to use your old water to clean filters?

 

[Keao_m]

Dechlorinate water in a bucket and do it that way. Chlorine is what kills the bacteria so if it's dechlorinated it won't.

 

[tamtam]

as it's been mentioned you can use declorinated water but I'm surprised that there is that much coming from your filter.. How often do you swish it out/do water changes??

My water looks pretty grubby after I swish my media out but it's never to an ineffective point. Are you maybe over feeding?

 

[reefdiver]

I agree with rtamtam. You should have dirty water but not to bad. I do two tanks in 3 gal buket. Mine are dirty but i do it every two weeks

 

[boadams87]

When I do a wc i'll catch about half a 5 gal bucket full of tank water then clean all my filters in it, then dispose of it.