Fluval flex water problem

[Karijay]

Hi everyone, im having a hard time with my fluval flex 15gal tank

The water from the back section keeps dropping and i font know whats happening
Can anyone help me

 

[BrianK]

The sponge or the intakes are dirty.

 

[Karijay]

We cleaned the sponge as we always do water changes every week or so… is the intake the whole section of the adapter and the two pieces that push the air and water?

 

[BrianK]

Over on the left there are snap in covers where the water goes into the filter section. The covers may have a piece of sponge inside. It's a pre-filter.

 

[Karijay]

This part?

 

[Karijay]

Over on the left there are snap in covers where the water goes into the filter section. The covers may have a piece of sponge inside. It's a pre-filter.

You mean this? And could this now be the problem?

Over on the left there are snap in covers where the water goes into the filter section. The covers may have a piece of sponge inside. It's a pre-filter.

we checked everything and cleaned the adapter as well, nothing stuck between the ps at all but major issues happening thats for sure

 

[kiko]

to me just seems like water evaporation...

specially from the picture from your 3rd post...water doesn't even reach the intake
which means you have to fill up quite a bit of water to reach the intake and also to fill up the sump

 

[Karijay]

to me just seems like water evaporation...
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specially from the picture from your 3rd post...water doesn't even reach the intake
which means you have to fill up quite a bit of water to reach the intake and also to fill up the sump

We fill that up, the only reason why the water was low is because the back section was dropping so much and filling up the front so we tried to remove the water so we could clean the adapter.. unfortunatly nothing we did helped.. i think its defected tank and will go return it and get a top fin bubble tank as it seems easier and not such a headache

 

[kiko]

first tank with a sump?...you have a section with filter media...

remove all the media from it...
fill up the water until it reaches about 3/4 of the height on the return section:

while it's on add your media and this way you'll find out what blocking your sump flow
and what media you might have to replace with a coarser one
here's a picture of my tank with an internal sump built by me...

lower water on the last partition (return) just means you need to add more water...this actually gives you a visual indicator on how much water you lose to evaporation
and you don't get water marks on the main section of the tank as it's always kept at the same height..only the water in the sump fluctuates on height
if the water is flowing over the partitions themselves then your filter media is clogged
water changes should be done by lowering your water 1inch above the height of the pump and filling it back up
or by turning off the pump and doing a bigger water change like 20%