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Fluval Polishing Pads - Preparation

I placed two polishing pads in my filter and after a few hours I realized I had not rinsed the pads before placing them in the filter.
Could this damage bacteria?

I placed two polishing pads in my filter and after a few hours I realized I had not rinsed the pads before placing them in the filter.
Could this damage bacteria?
The polishing pads are basically made for mechanical sieving of debris from the water. We have never known them to be dangerous or toxic to beneficial bacterial colonies.

Fluval mechanical filter cartridges are inherently non toxic, however we recommend rinsing all filter materials before use as aquarium inhabitants are acutely susceptible to very low exposure to toxic elements. So to be on the safe side we prefer recommending to rinse filter cartridges prior to use on the off chance the filter material may have come into contact with any foreign substance between manufacture and use.

Simply forgetting to rinse the pads may have resulted in some shipping dust to be allowed into the aquarium that would otherwise have been removed in a rinse. This might be due to transport vibrations and the like, but the product itself does not have any toxic compounds that would lead to a bacterial kill in its composition.

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Fluval Polishing Pads - Preparation

I placed two polishing pads in my filter and after a few hours I realized I had not rinsed the pads before placing them in the filter.Could this damage bacteria?

I placed two polishing pads in my filter and after a few hours I realized I had not rinsed the pads before placing them in the filter.Could this damage bacteria?

I placed two polishing pads in my filter and after a few hours I realized I had not rinsed the pads before placing them in the filter.
Could this damage bacteria?

I placed two polishing pads in my filter and after a few hours I realized I had not rinsed the pads before placing them in the filter.
Could this damage bacteria?