Good way to enhance or Blowout canister.

[ettfettbranamn]

My Rena Px4 has been running a bit strange lately and actually I hate that whimpy excuse for a large canister.. The Gallons per hour turnover is rediculous when new and even worse when used.. and since i hate it (waiting for my FX5) I thought I might aswell play with it a bit..

This is what I did.. I have a 1000 gph powerhead and some tubing left since installing the rena so what i did was I hooked the powerhead to the Rena and DAMN! Great effect! I run both pumps simultanously and they seem to help eachother..

now I am trying to zeal the tubing a bit better and I found that after the "blowout" the Rena works like new..

ofcourse I can't promise this will work longterm but IF you need an extra powerful canister and cant afford something fancy at the time this is a great shortcut..

This has surely been done before, but I am sort of new to experimenting and I just want to inform others like me..

 

[PoopSmart]

Could you maybe post soem pics, I am having a hard time understanding exactly what you did.

 

[frasertheking]

might wanna try taking the pump out of the can and just run the powerhead

ive only heard bad things about booster pumps

 

[ettfettbranamn]

I've been trying to upload but with no result.. hmm..

I just tubed the more powerful pump to the tubing of the can.. it did work!

 

[Merbeast]

I would remove the impeller from the rena if you are going to use the inline pump. The Rena's impeller will actually slow the flow of the water rather than "boost" it.

 

[ettfettbranamn]

yup.. I am definatly gonna do that! just thought it was cool it actually worked.. but the impeller is gone now I'm trying to get an idiotproof way och attaching the pump.. the pump will empty the tank in less than half an hour so I better be on the safe side..

 

[ziggy2]

You could definately end up with a big mess.