Filter Maintenance; Filter Media - AllPondSolutions 1000EF Manual De Instrucciones

MAINTENANCE
We recommend that a regular cleaning and maintenance schedule is
followed to ensure responsible fishkeeping. Depending on water volume
and stocking levels, regular cleaning of the filter media, foams, impeller,
inlet/outlet pipework during a 10-25% water change will help ensure that
the product works efficiently and the aquarium remains healthy.

Filter maintenance

In general it is recommended to disconnect your filter and clean the pipes,
impeller and filter media monthly. This of course will depend on a lot of
factors like how dirty the water is when you first start using an external filter,
the volume of your water and also how many fish you have. How often you
feed your fish and how long your lighting is on for will also affect how quickly
your aquarium water gets dirty and will need to be taken into consideration
when planning how often to clean your external filter.
Impeller and shaft
To gain access and clean your impeller and shaft open up
the filter (disconnect the pipes and turn the filter off). You
should be able to then see the impeller through an impeller
guard in the middle of the motor head. Turn the impeller
guard and pull it away and out of the motor head - you will
then have full access to the impeller and shaft.
Simply wash this and clean this with your aquarium water (from a water
change) - whilst doing this you will be able to check that the impeller and
shaft are both in good condition. When returning this to the motor head
ensure this is seated correctly with the two rubbers on either end of the shaft
(sometimes the rubbers stay in the holes that they fit into and will not be
obviously evident when first removing the impeller and shaft).
Note: Handle the ceramic shaft with care as this can break very
easily during the cleaning process.

Filter media

The suggested filter media order is ceramic rings at the bottom, bio balls in
the middle and active carbon at the top with one biochemical cotton in each
tray. Please remember to change your activated carbon at least every 2-3
months as after this time it is possible that the carbon can have a negative
effect on your aquarium as the very waste it removes can be released from
the carbon back into the aquarium. The best time to rinse your bio balls and
ceramic rings through is when doing a 10/20% water change as you can use
this water to wash the media through.