broken pump : / help please

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ScreaminGreen

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So I have one of those Eclipse all-in-one tanks (I think it's around 7 gallons, with the light and filter top). Anyways my boyfriend added some live sand, and the packaging said not to rinse it but their was still a lot of little particles in it, so my boyfriend stirred it up thinking that the filter would suck it all up. Now the pump doesn't work. When it's plugged in, I can hear it humming a little but it can't take up water or anything.

Is the pump busted, or is there something I can do to get the particles out of it??
 
disconect the pump first then try cleaning the pump, rinse it out, take it apart if you can, sound like the propeller is full of sand and its just stuck with all the sand
 
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