Eheim low flow rate - help please?

Jul 13, 2009
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I've had a new, out-of-the-box Eheim 2215 cannister running for about a week now. I just saw a shot on the net of a working filter with water spraying halfway across the tank from the spraybar!

Mine barely dribbles out of each hole. I believe it to be fully primed and it runs almost completely silently except for a slight hum. There are no kinks in the line. The cannister is under the tank in the cabinet. Nothing out of the ordinary.

How do you get this thing to flow as it should? I'm stumped.

Did I get a dud?
 

Jul 13, 2009
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You know, it just occurred to me (during an engineering department meeting no less) that I might be to blame here.

I took this new Eheim 2215 straight out of the box, hooked it up, primed it and turned it on. I did not open the canister at all.

Do they come from the factory with the media contained in plastic bags

If so, this just might explain my lack of flow.

(and would demonstrate no small ignorance on my part).
 

Jul 13, 2009
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Yup.

Both the "bio-balls" and the "pasta-shells" were in plastic bags!

Sheesh. What an idiot I am.

Now there's TOO much flow. I had to put the spray bar under water. If anything, I'm over filtered now. The Eheim 2215 and a Fluval #4 Plus in tank.

Now to let it truly percolate in preparation for livestock...

Thanks!
 

Jul 13, 2009
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Yup.

Both the "bio-balls" and the "pasta-shells" were in plastic bags!

Sheesh. What an idiot I am.

(In my defense, the Eheim instructions are completely worthless).

Now there's TOO much flow. I had to put the spray bar under water. If anything, I'm over filtered now. The Eheim 2215 and a Fluval #4 Plus in tank.

Now to let it truly percolate in preparation for livestock...

Thanks!