My canister filter broke!!!!!

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
It might run ok very lightly stocked until after the hollidays. An E400 would a LOT better than the P330 but you have to go with what you have.
 
The Rena motor/pump housing also has built in thermal protection to avoid motor housing meltdown. If they get enough air in them to cavitate instead of pumping, they will shut down on thermal.
If you check the impeller and all looks well there, check your hose connections (especially the intake side) for air leaks into the system.
Most of time, small air amounts are periodically "belched" out of the return, and it's not really a problem, but it is possible.
I plugged one in after cleaning one time and forgot to watch it for expelling air. Within 2-3 minutes it shut down. The motor housing was "warm" not hot to the touch. Though warm is still not good for plastic the softens with heat.
 
I would run the 180 with the filters I have and pick up waterchanges to maintain water quality. I'm kinda doing the same thing with my 100 til I get another filter for it.
 
bengalsfan47025;1334353; said:
rena filstart xp3

yeah it just stopped checked the suction or whatever and it just quit and i do not have an extra 200 right now to put into this and i am not going to set up my 55 again it is in storage let that cycle take another week you know and my blood parrots laid eggs and hatched in my 65 so i am kinda you know nailed to the wall on what to do!
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FIY new xp3 are only 90$ not 200

http://www.bigalsonline.com/BigAlsU...umpharmaceuticalsrenafilstarxp3canisterfilter
 
Okay well if you had a filter that hit the bricks would you buy the same thing the motor burnt up i took it apart the electric in it is messed up pretty bad i am not an electrical engineer I am getting a fluval fx5 for 189.00 that is what i meant by 200
 
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