How to do you clean Bio-wheels?

[sinner's girl]

I noticed the other morning they were no longer turning. They were slow before.
I haven't had time to mess with it and I've been sick.
Thanks. I don't want to mess anything up.

 

[zanemoseley]

check the bearings and rinse the wheel with pure water

 

[therock0861]

I wouldn't clean the bio-wheel with anything other than a brush around the portion that needs cleaned. If you clean it then you will kill all the beneficial organisms housed in the fibers of the bio-wheel. HTH

 

[sinner's girl]

thanks for such a fast responds, I'll do that.

 

[angelofish]

Check the spray bars. I cleaned mine last week now the spin like crazy.

 

[zanemoseley]

its not gonna kill anything if you rinse it off with purified water, bacteria is pretty hard to kill

 

[lesleybird]

Try to move the spray bar with the knob, sometimes they just need to be repositioned or cleaned. Lesley

 

[jlem]

Originally posted by zanemoseley
check the bearings and rinse the wheel with pure water
I am curious where you got that Idea?
When you do your water change just clean the biowheels with some of the water removed from the aquarium. It is a much safer bett then using fresh water and probably killing off most if not all of your biological filtration.

 

[dreeves]

Fresh water will kill bacteria grown in a marine environment...just as it will kill most any living marine organism...
It isnt a matter of "killing", but absorbtion rate differences..osmotic pressure...