I work third shift. When I got home this morning everything was good. Filter running smooth etc... well I just woke up and the filter wasn't running. Unplugged it and plugged it back up. Nothing. Just wondering if neone might have ne ideas as to what happened. Its an aqua clear 500 on my 30 gallon. Good thing I had an extra one but my back up is loud so I don't really want to run it to long since its in the living room and annoying.
filter stopped working
- Thread starter Gamakatsu
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Just move the intake J tube to the low volume side and stick something down into the impeller chamber and make sure it's spinning. This happens when there is a brown out and the impeller gets stuck by debris and doesn't restart like it's suppose to. I have a wooden skewer stick near my AC's just for this situation.
Ok ty u both I will try both these ideas. My ruby red cichlid thinks its funny to move rocks under the intake tube and get them sucked up I think. Watched him do this a couple times
I did what u said alex and it took right off. I dunno what stopped it. Only thing is my small mbuna was under the tube when I did it and he got sucked up into the filter. I turned it off and got him out. Don't seem to have cut him up. He is alive and swimming but he moving slow. I guess that stressed him to no end. Hope he lives. Didn't think he was small enough to go up that tube. I've swapped intakes now so that don't happen again.