penguin not working

milkman407 · Jul 22, 2006

... its a 30gallon filter on my 10 gallon tank. i put water in it. pluged it in.. and it was working fine and now 2 days later its not running... and i have no place to put my oscar... i have a lil air pump in there blowing bubles but i doubt thats enough.. any ideas?

cichlid_keeper91 · Jul 22, 2006

First of all You should really get a bigger tank for the oscar. They get about 14in. But you should prolly take it back if its not working.

JAK · Jul 22, 2006

milkman407 said:
... its a 30gallon filter on my 10 gallon tank. i put water in it. pluged it in.. and it was working fine and now 2 days later its not running... and i have no place to put my oscar... i have a lil air pump in there blowing bubles but i doubt thats enough.. any ideas?

get a AC. is that a temporary home for your Oscar?

gomezladdams · Jul 22, 2006

Try jiggling the intake pipe up and down sometimes the impeller gets stuck on those

dr_sudz · Jul 22, 2006

Ya intake pipe. I always have problems with that. Tho I have found that the penguin is better then the AC I have right now on my 30 g. Everytime the power goes out the impeller sticks and obviously is not filtering the water like it should for my fish safty!

IceH2O · Jul 23, 2006

dr_sudz said:
Ya intake pipe. I always have problems with that. Tho I have found that the penguin is better then the AC I have right now on my 30 g. Everytime the power goes out the impeller sticks and obviously is not filtering the water like it should for my fish safty!

If the AC is not restarting on its own its because you aren't rinsing out the filter enough. I find mine only does that if I don't rinse it out every couple of months.

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