Help with Eheim Pro 3

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yashaswibs

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Hi Guys,
I recently bought a Eheim pro 3 2180 (the heater version, not the electronic) and set it up without much media for a bout a week. I later got my order of Seachem biomedia. I filled it up and added a AquaMedic 1000 reactor and connected my Co2 with Ph probe to it an fired it up.
The amount of water coming out has been dropping drastically. In 5-6wks I only have a trickle of water coming out. There is air in the intake pipes which I cannot seem to get rid of even by pumping the prime button (which by the way is quite hard).
I tried contacting Eheim customer service and have had no luck via email.

What am I doing wrong? Should I have just stuck to eheim media- is this one clogging up the system? Is there a way to purge the air out of intake?
Help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
 
sounds like there is something clogging it. is your Seachem biomedia bagged? if not the biomedia is probably flying around in the filter and clogging it
 
Hi guys,
So I took apart the filter- there were no floating debris. I connected back my AM1000 co2 reactor and added a clamp to stop leaking, cut the tubing so there was NO kink in the system and connected back all the hoses and fired it up again.
The result was no different. There is no flow of water. I tried to push down the prime button but it would not move much. The filter did fill up with water after I turned the lever to on.

Again I am stuck wondering what is going on?
Help will be really appreciated.
Thanks.
 
There is a flow valve that may be tightened down (the grey lever), but if you know you have air in the system that's your problem.

Are you sure it's full when you run it? Are the lines supplying it with water properly? Sometimes with the 2 intake system one of the intakes can't lose its prime. Are you using the standard Eheim intake tubes? Sometimes you can pinch one of the tubes to make the other work better.

I'd break it down, check all the lines for obstructions, fill it with water before putting the lid back on, fill the intake lines (using the screw off covers at the lip of your tank), pump the suction a bit, turn it on until a siphon starts and some water is returned, turn it off to allow it to continue to fill, watch the air bubbles come out of the canister, turn it back on and assess the operations.
 
Thanks for the reply.
1. I am not 100% sure it is full when I turn it back on- i did hear the water flowing in and I waited till it did not move much more. When I removed one of the intakes to remove the kink water rushed out so likely it was full.
2. I am using standard supplied eheim tubing.
3. The air in the system is my problem.
 
"Are the lines supplying it with water properly? Sometimes with the 2 intake system one of the intakes can't lose its prime"-

Well both the pipes have air in them and the flow through the filter is much less than a trickle. If I try to pinch off one pipe, its not like it has a lot going through it anyway.
 
cchhcc;3661473; said:
I'd break it down, check all the lines for obstructions, fill it with water before putting the lid back on, fill the intake lines (using the screw off covers at the lip of your tank), pump the suction a bit, turn it on until a siphon starts and some water is returned, turn it off to allow it to continue to fill, watch the air bubbles come out of the canister, turn it back on and assess the operations.
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The flow valve is all the way open.

Could you explain the last paragraph in explicit idiot proof detail. I get the feeling I need idiot proofing.
 
yashaswibs;3661497; said:
"Are the lines supplying it with water properly? Sometimes with the 2 intake system one of the intakes can't lose its prime"-

Well both the pipes have air in them and the flow through the filter is much less than a trickle. If I try to pinch off one pipe, its not like it has a lot going through it anyway.
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This is the trouble.

Make sure the canister is full of water. Manually fill it with a bucket or something, then replace the lid.

The bracket that hangs the intakes on the tank should have a screw cap on the top of each. Open those and fill the lines with water (use a funnel or something to pour water into the lines).

Pump the priming button a few times. Turn on the filter for a few seconds then turn it off. Let the lines settle and the water levels even out. If you can push the priming button do it once or twice.

Turn the filter on. It should be working now!
 
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