The Sh*t hit the fan some one please help!!!!

[Guppy's_Hell]

I moved out of the apartment I was in and when setting up the tank in the new place my FX5 wont work right....

It was working fine this morning like a champ. I moved the tank and all to the new place and filled her up...

I plug in the FX5 and the its circulating but the out put is a trickle... It might as well not do anything!

I thought I'd post here before I take a screwdriver to it

Some one please help me with an idea... my fish are in coolers waiting since this morning... and they do not look happy...

I tried running it without media and its the same...

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

Unscrew and clean the impeller

 

[crisper]

are the valves open all the way

 

[chunkypeanutlove]

make sure that the are no air bubbles. just fiddled around with my xp4 to get it to work.

 

[Guppy's_Hell]

Unscrew and clean the impeller

Ok so i unscrewed it and it was pretty clogged up with the little brown media the filter comes with (no its not carbon and i don't have the strength to look it up)... so i filled her up after cleaning it and let her rip...


now it does shoot out with the correct intensity momentarily but the motor seems to bog out... it shoot hard then soft and back again... like its sputtering.... taking it apart now again...

 

[Guppy's_Hell]

It's still sputtering now

 

[Guppy's_Hell]

Wait... I think I scared it when I threaten its life.... yes... yes! The filter is working now!

 

[Guppy's_Hell]

Ok it was still working this morning, thank you all for the support!

 

[Bllib]

I have one fx5 that the motor gets clogged up I have to unplug the motor and re-attach sometimes it works and sometimes I have to go through the whole process a second or third time. Glade you got it running!!