I just moved my 100 gallon to my new house, and it seems my fx5 sucked up quite a bit of sand in the short amount of time when I was scooping it up and forgot to shut off the filter. I emptied the canister, took off the motor housing. Rinsed off the motor housing(the orange part that I unscrewed from the canister). Rinsed out the canister and the area the impeller housing attaches to & some sand came out. Maybe 1/2 a cup worth...put the filter back together and it still made the sound...it's not bubbles, because it doesn't sound like air. It's more of a sort of mechanical/grinding type sound.
Since I moved the tank yesterday the filter has been very noisy and the sound is coming from the motor/impeller housing, I think there must be sand in it. But how do I take it apart to clean it? I was looking at the orange area of the part I took off and saw that the "screws" weren't regular screws, they had 5? points, like a star.
Hellppp! I just want my awesome filter to be quiet again. Doesn't do much good to have a 100 gallon display tank if all people can focus on is your noisy filter
Since I moved the tank yesterday the filter has been very noisy and the sound is coming from the motor/impeller housing, I think there must be sand in it. But how do I take it apart to clean it? I was looking at the orange area of the part I took off and saw that the "screws" weren't regular screws, they had 5? points, like a star.
Hellppp! I just want my awesome filter to be quiet again. Doesn't do much good to have a 100 gallon display tank if all people can focus on is your noisy filter
