Rena Filters

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I am quite pleased with my Renas. I have a XP1,XP3 and a XP4. All have served me well. As far as operator error I did do a couple things that affected the performance on my xp4 and I could see it causing problems had it continued long term.
Since I'll be moving soon I didnt cut the tubing to length since I dont know how it will be placed at my new home. As a result the weight of the tubing hanging created a kink where they connect to the valves. That severely restricted my flow which i didnt notice until doing a large water change. The other mistake I made was I underestimated the suction of the XP4 and didnt realize it was sucking in air bubbles from my bubbler. As a result I developed more air in those loops of hose I mentioned and that messed up preformance.
All my Renas work great though. Ive had my X1 for a few years and my x3 for over a year. I think they are also much easier to service than my Fluvals that I replaced them with.
 
i love my xp3. i recently purchased an xp4 and 9w UV for $100 for my 125g. the guy i bought it from said it was working great on his 180g. hopefully it will work great on my tank too.
 
I also found a kink in the hose of my XP4 when I noticed a drop in flow from the spraybar. I wonder if this is a common problem?
 
I've had my two XP3's for about a year now and no problems so far.
 
my xp3 has been working great for over a year on 2 different tanks. but i have heard bad things about the xp4. if i were you id just get a xp3
 
So it's been a week now and I've done a water change and everything is still going strong. I will say I was very nervous, we had a power outage and I forgot to unplug the filter when the power was off, so when it came back on an hour later, the filter came on as well. There were no issues at all. Not sure if the first two were lemons or not, and I'm still not completely sold considering thatit took about a month for the second one to crash. This is one is running better than the previous two, so I hope third one is a charm.
 
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