FX5 long term review anyone?
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Don't know what little oddities they might have. They're pretty straight forward. Only issue I had was a couple months ago the pump stopped running, disassembled it, cleaned it a but, reassembled, still wouldn't run, disassembled and reassembled it again, wouldn't run. Tore it apart and started looking for somewhere to buy a replacement...Reassembled again, running fine ever since.
Oddities like micro bubbles do to media placement etc.
How long has it been up and running?
Never seen any microbubbles.
I've had it running for maybe 3 years, I think it was 5 years old when I bought it secondhand.
Love them. Ran two of them for close to five-six years without issue. Good as new. Every now and again had to clear sand out of the body of the filter and from the impeller area.
Bought three fx6’s as well throughout the years. The hoses on the fx6’s, being that they are sleeves on the intake, doesn’t hold a siphon as well when doing water changes. The fx5’s held up even after removing a little more than half the water. My fx6’s would break siphon and I’d have to turn them off while doing wc’s.
I like the fx5 better
Bought three fx6’s as well throughout the years. The hoses on the fx6’s, being that they are sleeves on the intake, doesn’t hold a siphon as well when doing water changes. The fx5’s held up even after removing a little more than half the water. My fx6’s would break siphon and I’d have to turn them off while doing wc’s.
I like the fx5 better