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08-13-2007, 08:17 PM
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#1 | | Guppy
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Newbury Park, California
Posts: 12
| Filters!!!!
hi, i have 2 marine land bio wheel filters the 50 gallon ones, and i clean my take and replace the filters and the rock stuff that goes in the white things.... and when the filters warm up and start going its not a steady powerful flow out the waterfall thing... i dont know why it does that, i took em all apart and cleaned all the algea out of them and still does that, 1 time i had them with a large steady flow out of them but i don't know how i did that,... can you help me ?
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08-13-2007, 08:52 PM
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#2 | | Guppy
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Southwest Missouri
Posts: 36
| Re: Filters!!!!
You might try soaking the impeller in vinegar for a couple of hours. I had that problem with my Penguin and called the company. They told me to soak the impeller and the water intake tubing in vinegar. Everything worked great after that. Of course, even though vinegar won't hurt the fish (freshwater - I don't know anything about marine fish) I rinsed them very well before putting them back to use. I hope it works for you, too!
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08-13-2007, 09:02 PM
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#3 | | Guppy
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Newbury Park, California
Posts: 12
| Re: Filters!!!!
what arer those parts you are talking about? | |
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08-13-2007, 09:22 PM
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#4 | | Guppy
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Southwest Missouri
Posts: 36
| Re: Filters!!!!
Go here http://www.marineland.com/products/m...ror_manual.pdf and it will show you the parts to clean. Page 20-21 of the manual show how to take it apart, carefully. The intake tube, intake strainer and impellor can be soaked in the vinegar. Hope that helps.
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08-13-2007, 09:27 PM
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#5 | | Guppy
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Newbury Park, California
Posts: 12
| Re: Filters!!!!
yea im soaking the impelers now but i dont got enough for the intake tubes, does that matter? and how long should i do it
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08-13-2007, 09:57 PM
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#6 | | Betta
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Beaumont, Ca
Posts: 80
| Re: Filters!!!!
bio wheel fillter are an ingenious idea very smart but they break down and stopworking like the whell stops spinning the inpeller wheres down quike and it overflows due to the filter cloges up realy quick.
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40 Gallon acrylic, built in sump in back with protien skimmer running 24/7, over 150 bio-balls, 2 pounds of live rock in sump, inch of crushed coral in front, 30 punds of misc live rock. 1 mandarine goby, 1 blue tang. | |
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08-13-2007, 11:11 PM
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#7 | | Guppy
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Newbury Park, California
Posts: 12
| Re: Filters!!!!
OK so i did all that you said and it still is not up to cababilites... they are new filters as well | |
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