What do you rinse your filter media with?

[JSully_94]

Hello Everyone,

I'm curious to know what you rinse your filter media with. Has anyone ever had any issues with rinsing their filter media with tap water? If so, please explain!

 

[MrDLHughesY]

I just use tap water

 

[JSully_94]

I just use tap water

Have you ever had any issues? Increased phosphates? Ect.?

 

[brandon429]

tap water, include all old school fw aquarists too. its not a sterilizing agent. it doesnt deliver sticky items to cause spikes. its perfect bc its unending.

matter of fact now that we have your buy in for media rinsing in tap, how about your whole sandbed, all at once

wanna really test it

 

[Potatohead]

What do you mean by rinse? New stuff going into a new setup?

 

[JSully_94]

What do you mean by rinse? New stuff going into a new setup?

rinse as in running your carbon, purigen, phosguard, etc. under a stream of water before putting it in your filter compartment, whatever that may be (AIO, sump, hob)... sorry should have been more specific.

 

[MrDLHughesY]

Have you ever had any issues? Increased phosphates? Ect.?

Nope

Have you ever had any issues? Increased phosphates? Ect.?

Nope

 

[JoshO]

Hello Everyone,

I'm curious to know what you rinse your filter media with. Has anyone ever had any issues with rinsing their filter media with tap water? If so, please explain!

Is this before you set up a system to get rid of debris and dust or while the system is fully operational?

 

[NanoSteam]

Only thing I have to rinse is chemipure elite once a month and I just do that with waterchange water.

 

[Potatohead]

rinse as in running your carbon, purigen, phosguard, etc. under a stream of water before putting it in your filter... sorry should have been more specific.

If it's new out of the package I would use tap water. If it was out of the tank and I was just rinsing detritus off of it I would use old tank water.

 

[brandon429]

rinsing anything in reefing=doesnt harm filter bac. handy actioner's tip.

 

[JSully_94]

tap water, include all old school fw aquarists too. its not a sterilizing agent. it doesnt deliver sticky items to cause spikes. its perfect bc its unending.

matter of fact now that we have your buy in for media rinsing in tap, how about your whole sandbed, all at once

wanna really test it

I've only ever used "live-sand" so I've never rinsed it.

 

[JoshO]

If it's new out of the package I would use tap water. If it was out of the tank and I was just rinsing detritus off of it I would use old tank water.

+1 on this, except if you have an rodi station set up then use rodi water for the initial rinse, otherwise always the water being taken out during a change

 

[brandon429]

J I was leading into just that, it works quite well if you can believe it. in a 30 page thread called the official sand rinse thread, all we do for 5 yrs is rinse beds in tap water. partially its the anger it causes in people reading, that is funny. secondarily, we are producing/maintaining completely controlled tanks able to move homes, upgrade and downgrade systems all without recycling, all due to tap water if you can imagine.

120 gallon rip clean

Thanks. I did put a few Nudibranchs in my refuge and some peppermint shrimp. I don’t have Aiptasia in the refuge. I have four wrasses in QT so I’m not sure if Nudibranch will be a good idea for DT. My copper band butterfly was making a huge difference but he was the one that gave me ich and was...

www.reef2reef.com

(the secret is detritus removal, its not actually tap. by removing all the detritus from sandbeds that are not working well, we restore full tank balance. tap allows us to rinse completely, which is the mechanism that restores the tank...being detritus free)

additionally, we tap rinse all new caribsea wet pack sand so it wont silt for three days. its ok not to rinse, but its fun to point out places on the web where rules are not followed and results are astounding heh. Rinsing in tap does not kill off the filtration bacteria, they're tougher than that.

we can rinse sandbeds in tap in twenty thousand dollar reefs...rinsing media is a no prob with new or old media or new or old tank.

 

[Rich Klein]

rinse as in running your carbon, purigen, phosguard, etc. under a stream of water before putting it in your filter compartment, whatever that may be (AIO, sump, hob)... sorry should have been more specific.

I flush my carbon cartridge with tank water into a bucket (less than a gallon) then top-up with fresh mix.

 

[Victor_C3]

I change media when I do water changes. To rinse the media, I just use my old tank water.

I don’t like to use tap water to rinse as I prefer to not risk adding whatever might be present in tap water, like chlorine or anything else.