This Will Be An Emergency Before I Know It
George Singer
fish-tank when you do a water change, the AquClear filter won't work, so you
have to--if my memory serves me correctly--jiggle on that thingamajig that
sucks up the water, or play around with it in some similar fashion, or keep
pouring water back into the filter? Well, this time the filter won't suck up
the water. I just transferred the fish from my 45-gallon tank to my 15-gallon
tank and I didn't aclimate them because they hid inside a rock from the
45-gallon tank and so I couldn't catch them and there are other things that are
going wrong, and thus this is not the time for my filter to stop working. I'm
hoping someone can tell me how to get the filter to suck up the water. Thanks
in advance.
George Singer
filter, aren't you supposed to be able to feel something spinning? Nothing is
spinning and I keep pressing on the thing that I think is supposed to spin. I
know that the electricity is working because the adapter that is hooked up to
the bottom of the filter is warm. Thanks.
Teeb
(*thingamajig that sucks up water* (intake tube) and make sure the *thing
that spins* (impeller) isn't tangled up with something.. You'd be surprised
at all the things that get into it and will wrap around it.
Teeb
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Teeb
It works by a bit of magnetic magic. Unless Aquaclears are different than
all the other filters of those types..
Teeb
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Beverly
> fish-tank when you do a water change, the AquClear filter won't work, so
you
> have to--if my memory serves me correctly--jiggle on that thingamajig that
> sucks up the water, or play around with it in some similar fashion, or
keep
> pouring water back into the filter? Well, this time the filter won't suck
up
> the water.
When was the last time you removed the AC filter from it's place at the back
of the tank, broke it down and cleaned all the parts? Foams should be
cleaned in outgoing changewater to maintain the nitrifying bacteria.
Plastic parts can be cleaned with a toothbrush (never previously used in the
mouth) in warm to hot tapwater (no soap). The impeller chamber is
particularly small and delicate and should be cleaned with q-tips.
Important tip: take care when taking all the pieces apart so you can
remember how the thing goes back together. Also, make sure the AC is
unplugged before doing any maintenance.
Once it's cleaned, put it back together, making sure the uptake tubing fits
perfectly into the hole where the water comes in. Then hang it on the back
of the tank, pour in enough water to fill the media chamber, then plug it
in. It should work even better than you've seen it work in months, if you've
left cleaning it for a long time.
If you use carbon, replace the carbon, or don't use it at all.
Weekly cleaning of the foams during your weekly water change will benefit
your tank by removing the built up crud that is ultimately responsible for
nitrate and phosphate in your system. Weekly cleaning of the entire AC
system will make it run better on a consistant basis. I break down the
powerheads/AC filters I have on all four marine systems each week, and I
believe this frequent and regular maintenance helps keep my tank freer of
unwanted algae and cyanobacteria.
HTH.
George Singer
>(*thingamajig that sucks up water* (intake tube) and make sure the *thing
>that spins* (impeller) isn't tangled up with something..
I did both those things and it's still not working. Do you know whether
Marineland Emperor filters are easier to operate? Thanks again.
George Singer
>of the tank, broke it down and cleaned all the parts?
Never. One is a little over three years old and the other is almost four years
old.
George Singer
definetly one of them. I guess it's because I ran them dry, but I only did so
for about 10 - 15 minutes--give or take. After I discovered that the first one
wasn't working, I foreknew that the second one also wouldn't be because
everything little thing that's bad *has to* keep on snowballing until it's
major and I waited around nine months to switch the fish to my small aquarium
because everything always is a kazillion zillion times harder than it oughta be
and a gazillion jabillion times harder than I think it'll be. I haven't had a
job since March 1994 and someone whose opening a restaurant offered me a job
working in the kitcchen and I took him up on his offer, but it would be wise to
politely decline because I can use this fish problem as evidence to support my
theory that I will fail miserably at it being that things that are hard, will
be harder to do and morre miserable than one can imagine and possibly so hard
that they are impossible to do. For examople, only one fish is swimming around
and the other is in the rock, possibly dead and the one that is swimming around
is not eating and the water seems awfully cold and so I need to get a
thermometer. So everything breaks at the samw time and not piecemeal for the
express purpose of me spending and arm and a leg. It'll be ten years this
October or November that I've had fish and even though it's my favorite thing
in the whole wide world, the pleasure has not been worth the tsurus, hard work,
wrecked furniture and damaged antique carpet that's been in my family since the
early nineteen hundreds, damaged floors, but it is worth the three or so grand
that I spent, but I'd be delighted if I could somehow give back all the fish
and tanks and equip,ment and decorations et hoc genus omne for my long gone
greenbacks. My guess is, generally speaking, it doesn't give back enough
pleasure for most people to make it all worth the aforementioned. Maybe for the
first few years it did, not no more. DOes anybody out there know if servals are
harder pets to rear than fish and whether or not Marineland Emperor filters
work as well or better than Aqua Clears? Which looks nicer, the Aqua Clear or
the Marineland Emperor? The motor of the filter gets so hot when it's run
without much water in the filter, so I guess it burned out. Thanks.
George Singer
>work as well or better than Aqua Clears
The AquaClear 300 for tanks up to 30 gallons filters approximately 300 U.S.
gallons and the Marineland Emperor model 280 for use with 25-45 gallon tanks
filters 280 gallons per hour. I just right now figured out that they name the
filters after how many gallons of water they pump per hour :-).
Marc Levenson
You may not like it, but I really think it is time you hang it up. You're not
enjoying it, you don't do any maintenance, *according to your own words*, you don't
have a working thermometer, your fish *might* be dead.....
Time to drain the tank and move on. Perhaps that job will be a nice alternative
with some new challenges. Do what makes you happy.
Marc
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George Singer
That's what I've decided. Unless, of course the damsel fish that's left can
survive with just a BakPak 2. They went well over a year without any water
change in the big aquarium. I bought another AquaClear 300 filter about an hour
and a half ago and couldn't get it to work. I think I broke it, or it was
defective, or BOTH. That was the last straw. Right before that, I realized that
I broke my boombox futzing around with one of the filters because I bumped into
a shelf that it was on fidgeting with a wire or emptying out water or something
like that and half of the shelf fell off my chest. Maybe the propellar of the
filter can be fixed, but either way I'm returning it for a refund. The
propellar (sp.) was able to to bob up and down, now it is stuck. Both of my
aquariums are so nice, so for now--assuming the fish can't survive, I will keep
the small tank empty. It took me years to find the most realistic looking
plastic plants and seaweed. What a shame. My tanks looks so real. There's a
dead coral garden that is a replica of a photograph of a dead coral garden that
I saw in a web site that was made from a storm or hurricane, and big rock that
looks just like a rock on an ocean floor and lifelike plastic grass that
resembles seaweed and there's sand as opposed to pea gravel. I'm almost as
happy with it empty. I even enjoy the looks of the protein skimmer. Take care.
Teeb
it after my head quit spinning from reading his other note, lol.
Teeb
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