Not sure if anyones experienced this, but when I boxed up my Eheim 2028 and setup the FX5 on my ray tank, I just transfered all biomedia.
The grates of the fluval media baskets are alot larger, comared to the eheim. I hate using media bags, because I've had problems with them killing my flow rate, so I just packed the bottom tray with coarse pads... problem solved. Right??? Definately not!!!!
I woke up this morning and checked on the tank, noticing that there was almost zero flow from the FX5. Of course, I immediately shut it off and tore it apart only to find that many of the small pieces of media had jammed inside the impeller. I cleaned it all out, replaced the foam, and put the biomedia in bags.
I hooked it back up and luckily the sucker is still turning over water like crazy.
Just a warning. Make sure to use bags if theres any chance of media falling threw the grates of the backets.
The grates of the fluval media baskets are alot larger, comared to the eheim. I hate using media bags, because I've had problems with them killing my flow rate, so I just packed the bottom tray with coarse pads... problem solved. Right??? Definately not!!!!
I woke up this morning and checked on the tank, noticing that there was almost zero flow from the FX5. Of course, I immediately shut it off and tore it apart only to find that many of the small pieces of media had jammed inside the impeller. I cleaned it all out, replaced the foam, and put the biomedia in bags.
I hooked it back up and luckily the sucker is still turning over water like crazy.
Just a warning. Make sure to use bags if theres any chance of media falling threw the grates of the backets.
