Posting in lounge because thread will be unproductive lol, just need to vent after setting it up.
First thing, it was a royal pain in the butt to get under my tank without the top hose creasing.
Next thing is the stupid top/return hose is to small (will go buy one later that's longer), my tank stand is 30" high with my tank another 25" soi the hose barely reached with the filter pushed all the way to the back. Also the plastic U shaped piece on the outlet before the spray bar is to small so it would not fit over the edge of the tank further reducing space from filter to spray bar.
Next thing up in my list of gripes is the color of the hoses. I mean really why make them bright green so you can see the houses a mile off? I know you can paint then but still.
Next is priming thr stupid thing. First I read is best to print it empty so it can push the air out easier. Well all that did is make the pump run loud. Next I removed it from under the tank, filed it with water and it still didn't want to prime and start. So I checked online and read that you should fill the output line eith water, so I took a funnel and did that. This half way worked but didn't get it to turn over.
Finally I said screw it and hooked up my fx5 output to the 2262 input while both were running to push water through the system. Finally I got it to work but that was just really to much bs to get it to stay pumping. Probably user error somewhere.
Now that all my griping is done the filter is far better than the fx5 in my opinion. The media capacity is far greater, flow rate is better and it doesn't use sponges if you load it with what they recommend do it shouldn't clog like the fx5. Ultimately I will probably buy a second one, remove the two cfs500s and just run two fx5s and two 2262s on the 300.
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First thing, it was a royal pain in the butt to get under my tank without the top hose creasing.
Next thing is the stupid top/return hose is to small (will go buy one later that's longer), my tank stand is 30" high with my tank another 25" soi the hose barely reached with the filter pushed all the way to the back. Also the plastic U shaped piece on the outlet before the spray bar is to small so it would not fit over the edge of the tank further reducing space from filter to spray bar.
Next thing up in my list of gripes is the color of the hoses. I mean really why make them bright green so you can see the houses a mile off? I know you can paint then but still.
Next is priming thr stupid thing. First I read is best to print it empty so it can push the air out easier. Well all that did is make the pump run loud. Next I removed it from under the tank, filed it with water and it still didn't want to prime and start. So I checked online and read that you should fill the output line eith water, so I took a funnel and did that. This half way worked but didn't get it to turn over.
Finally I said screw it and hooked up my fx5 output to the 2262 input while both were running to push water through the system. Finally I got it to work but that was just really to much bs to get it to stay pumping. Probably user error somewhere.
Now that all my griping is done the filter is far better than the fx5 in my opinion. The media capacity is far greater, flow rate is better and it doesn't use sponges if you load it with what they recommend do it shouldn't clog like the fx5. Ultimately I will probably buy a second one, remove the two cfs500s and just run two fx5s and two 2262s on the 300.
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