Technically....squeeze them out into a bucket of tank water.
Poret is not supposed to be squeezed, it breaks down the foam structure faster. But I do gently squeeze mine anyhow. I believe you are supposed to shake the mor bang them against something and then rinse to clean them.
I often just rinse mine in tap water. I don't worry about the chlorine for several reasons:
- I always have a backup filter so if I accidentally nuke one sponge, there are backups
- if the chlorine does kill a bunch of bacteria, there are still a bazillion in there left so I'm probably ok.
- chlorine in tap water is at concentrations where things aren't instantly disinfected, but instead they have to sit in the chlorinated water for a while ... So if I'm quick at the sink and get it back into the tank, I'm probably fine.
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