FX5 is a nightmare =O
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Deaths Sting;3444815; said:The FX5 is a sex machine... it tried to rape my girlfriend..
My FX5 touched my father 
What is wrong with these beastly filters ? In all reality its a great filter with excellent all around filtration at a steal of a price if you know where to get it. Good technology as well the impellar is a work of art on its own.
+1jcardona1;3443282; said:FX5 is a great filter. mine's been running for almost two years with no issues at all. most of the problems are user error
The way i see it, No matter what the product is, there is always something that will go wrong with some. When you large quantities of a product there will always be a bad apple here and there, it just happens. Don't blame the filter or the company for this, they offer a three year warranty for a reason. If it continues to give you problems, contact hagen and see what they say, then if nothing is done about it, that's when you can blame them. I love my fx5 and i believe that it is a wonderful filter, especially for the price that you can buy them.
blacksnow;3443262; said:
Thats what happens to me everything tends to go down the tubes after the 2nd, 3rd or the 4th cleaning of the canister filters from my experience- I have gone through Fluval 404, Eheim Pro II 2028, 2nd Eheim Pro 2028, and some cheap Jemcho forgot the spelling its long gone.... every one of them failed on me within 5-10 months and I just long given up on those and gone back to trusty ol HOB system or gone simpler to sponge filteration or no filteration at all depending on the tank itself its always one thing or another....
