Hello,
I am preparing to do a good cleaning and filter maintenance tonight and just wondering how often people clean there sump/ fuge?
My plan is to drain most of the sump to remove most of the detrious that has collected with a siphon. I have done this once before since setting up in Sept 05. I am also going to pull my bio balls from the sump and filter media from the bak pak 2. Probably contributed to hair algea I am recovering from.
Does anyone ever clean the fuge? I do not plan to, but just wondering if anyone else every does?
I spent about two hours last night with a tooth brush manually removing the small amount of hair algea that still remained from the outbreak last month, so think it should be looking pretty good once I do the sump maintenace and change about 25-30 galons of water.
TIA,
I am preparing to do a good cleaning and filter maintenance tonight and just wondering how often people clean there sump/ fuge?
My plan is to drain most of the sump to remove most of the detrious that has collected with a siphon. I have done this once before since setting up in Sept 05. I am also going to pull my bio balls from the sump and filter media from the bak pak 2. Probably contributed to hair algea I am recovering from.
Does anyone ever clean the fuge? I do not plan to, but just wondering if anyone else every does?
I spent about two hours last night with a tooth brush manually removing the small amount of hair algea that still remained from the outbreak last month, so think it should be looking pretty good once I do the sump maintenace and change about 25-30 galons of water.
TIA,