My Fluval!!!

[yamahaguy06]

Hi all, as most people here know I have a fluval 304 with my 60 gallon hex tank. I have recintly took the media out and I am just running foam in there.

My question is that, sence I am basicly running it for cuculation I need it to be pumping out the most water that it can. I have had the filter running non stop for over 1 year. I have never preformed any kind of mantinence on it.(regarding the propeler or something like that) besides cleaning the media). It seems to be puting out a lot less water than when I first got it. it used to pump a lot of water out and it is kinda slow. what do you guys think???

thanx a lot *PEACE!*

 

[aresgod]

you should clean the impeller and all the tubing

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i have a fluval 304 i use it only for water changes ( too lazy to use a powerhead now ) and it easily gets clogged. The impeller can be jammed with algae/food/smelly stuff you don't wanna know

 

[yamahaguy06]

LOL, great how do I clean it, ??????????

tubing and all huh

 

[1979camaro]

you will have to disasemble the canister filter...remove the top cover and take the impeller assembly out...give it a good rinse down to clean out any gunk...i would remove the foam pads as well because they will likely create a (bigger?) nitrate problem

 

[yamahaguy06]

ok camaro, I'm going to trust you with this one. finnaly I'm going to listen and take the foam out. this ones on you, lol I will dude. I'll give it a wirl. I have one question though were does the gunk and fish waste go if it doesnt get cought in the foam?? thanx man *PEACE!*

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Had foams in my 2 aquaclear 500. Camaro told me to remove them. Nitrates went down. The foams doesn't have de de-nitrifying abilities that the LR/substrate bed has...so you'll end up with some. The junk is collected in your skimmer ( you have one right ? )

 

[1979camaro]

you really aren't likely to see much gunk floating around anyway

 

[S.Reef]

I also encourage you to take the foam out.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

The Camaro/S.Reef© approval
Experienced fishies you can trust.

 

[yamahaguy06]

LOL, no skimmer, but I took the foam out a couple of days ago and the water is looking good, going to LFS to look at skimmer today. thanx guys

 

[yamahaguy06]

ok, I have an idea, should I just take my Fluval away and use a couple of good powerheads? because if my Fluval isn't doing anything but moving water around???? thanx

 

[1979camaro]

you could do that but since you havw the fluval you might was well use it and save the money for your skimmer

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Hey Camaro..i'm tired of my seaclone..always need to be "calibrated" with the annoying valve. It's been a week since something went wrong. Got only like 11 corals, mostly little frags + 2 fishies + snails + shrimp..but now the cup is filled in 3 weeks..compared to 3/4 a cup a week. Tried to clean it, check the pump..nothing seems wrong. No salt jammed into air tubing. Maybe juste the powerhead dying. Anyways..i'm planning to add a REAL skimmer into my tank and found the Berlin Classic very interesting. Can have it for 270 $ CDN with pump ( online ), usually it's 450 $ CDN here. Well...do you recommand this skimmer ? Never really saw one working...since no LFS use them. The LFS prefer to put some Jebo + Seaclone into their tanks...and sometimes no skimmer at all.

 

[1979camaro]

its an "ok" skimmer...for the money thats probably a pretty good deal. not sure about reliability but i do know they require a fair amount of fine tuning...perhaps someone else knows more

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Mhh...fine tuning...again..NooOoO!

 

[aresgod]

I have heard the same thing as camaro, decent will do the job but requires frequent matainance to keep it at optimum skimming capacity, my aqua-c remora to qoute a famous infomercial, I just set it and forget it

 

[KahluaZzZ]

sounds kool

 

[1979camaro]

"just set it and forget it" eh? thanks ron

 

[aresgod]

no problem, only 25 minutes in the set it and forget it oven, and you've got a sparkling clean tank