richard.
you wont kill your bio filter by rinsing with old seawater.
you will, however if you rinse in tap water.\
I would rinse it once a month with water change water and call it good.
shouldnt hurt anything by doing that.
hth
dave
> [Original Message]
> From: Shane Clays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 6/25/01 4:10:49 PM
> Subject: RE: bak pak 2 question
>
> Richard,
> It is my understanding that that stuff is to stop fine bubbles from
escaping
> into the tank. Try and remove it and see if any bubbles make it into the
> tank. If not, leave it out.
>
> IMO
> Shane C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lewis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: bak pak 2 question
>
> I have a question that I haven't seen answered before and thought I
> would throw it out to the list and get comments. I have a 55 gal tank
with
> 5 blue-green chromis, two tomato clowns, a cleaner shrimp, crabs, snails,
> limpets, peppermint shrimp, a feather duster, some mushrooms, and polyp
> rocks. I have both live rock and a live sand substrate. I have a CPR Bak
> Pak 2 skimmer. My question has to do with the "bio-media" (actually just
> tangled curled plastic strips) in the return section of the skimmer. It
> seems to be (at least in my opinion) more of a breeding ground for algae
> than anything else. In fact the instructions for the skimmer say to rinse
> the bio-media in saltwater periodically to clean it. When I've done that,
> all the algae, etc. was washed off the material and it was back to square
> one as far as any bilogical filtring was concerned. My question is this,
> what am I losing, if anything, by removing the "bio-media" and doing
without
> it all together? I have an Emperor 400 filter, and with the live rock and
> live sand do I really need the extra algae farm? Pro and Cons?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Rich Lewis
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