Came home today, ate some food, fed the fish. Noticed when I dropped some food in the Monster Loach tank, not much water movement. Checked the filters, bare. The impeller motors were hot, and couldn't be restarted. I thought I was out over $50 for two AC70's. Turned out a circuit blew and the landlord reset it while I was gone. The lights were on, but the filters never restarted. I ran them under cold water for awhile, and they restarted. Just glad my monster loach collection is intact.
Close call: Check your filters.
- Thread starter ewurm
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Ooo thats lucky you came back sooner rather than later. How long were the filters not runing for?
a similar thing happened to the cover for my intake fell off and a snail crawled up the intake and got stuck. water was barely trickeling out the output of the filter. I had the snail for years as well too bad i lost it then
a similar thing happened to the cover for my intake fell off and a snail crawled up the intake and got stuck. water was barely trickeling out the output of the filter. I had the snail for years as well too bad i lost it then
Glad you caught it in time.Ive noticed penguin filters dont self start every time either.emperors and whispers usually do though
This seems to be a problem with AC's lately. I don't know what it is, but I've had one of mine do this 3 times in the last 2 weeks, and we haven't even had a power shortage. Weird....
Im a big fan of redundancy in any system. I make sure i have more than one filter/heater in any size tank. This way you have a bigger chance that your precious fish will survive a mishap when one filter or heater malfunctions.