as per title. i just purchased a fluval fx5 this afternoon, and for whatever reasons, it just shuts itself off every couple of minutes! what's going on? 
why does my fx5 keep shutting itself off??
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I don't have one, but I think they are designed to do that to expel any air in them. They also supposedly do it every day even after being setup for awhile.
Someone else may chime in and say I'm wrong, but that's my understanding based on what I've read about 'em.
Someone else may chime in and say I'm wrong, but that's my understanding based on what I've read about 'em.
although I don't own one, I was under the impression that it is supposed to do this for 1 minute every 24 hours.
perhaps the timing can be reset or changed?
perhaps the timing can be reset or changed?
rob0521;972059; said:I have a crazy idea, but it might just work... read the troubleshooting section in your manual
I thought those were just packing material.
ewok;971920; said:as per title. i just purchased a fluval fx5 this afternoon, and for whatever reasons, it just shuts itself off every couple of minutes! what's going on?
Have you tried tearing it down, chking for proper media xment & then setting it bck up again? This has solved most of the prob.'s descibe like this by other's. And no it is not suppose to shut down more than 1x every 24 hr.'s to "gas off", so something is wrong. That's not the norm for that filter. At worse take it bck, but I bet you will be able to figure it out if you tear it down & go thru it
lol at some replies 
i think it was going through the bubble purge thing - now it's ok again
wned: .
yes, they need to make the manual look less like packing material...
i think it was going through the bubble purge thing - now it's ok again
wned: . yes, they need to make the manual look less like packing material...
ewok;972115; said:lol at some replies
i think it was going through the bubble purge thing - now it's ok again
yes, they need to make the manual look less like packing material...
If we all had a $ for every time this happen's, well we wouldn't be so concerned when it did. YEA for you, enjoy that FLUVAL. Say, that bring's up a good ? being debated right now on this same forum, why did you buy that fx5 anyway? lol, really what made you go w/ it over the all the others you could have choose?