LadyMinion
Fish Addict
Bit of history first....
OK, this evening we noticed the water in the 180 was looking a bit cloudy. Looking at the filter outtake it had stopped completely. This seemed odd as we only did a media change about 3 weeks ago, so figured there was a blockage.
On opening the canister we found that it was the peat media we had put in on the last change that seemed to be causing trouble. It wasn't in a media bag and had gone everywhere. So we cleaned that up and put everything back together.
Now it wouldn't prime. In fact, as we were priming huge globs of air were coming out of the intake pipe. No movement from the outtake pipe at all. After ripping everything apart again and reseating the o-ring we eventually got it working. Briefly.
Then water stopped coming out of the outtake again. Looking at the canister a tiny puddle had formed underneath. No sign of where it came from, but we had dried the canister thoroughly after finishing. We reopened the unit, had a general fiddle and after a couple of tries got the cursed thing working again. That was 2 mins ago and it's still working and there's no new puddle.
What I'm worried about is that we come downstairs in the morning to find a flooded living room. Is this likely? Does anyone know what we can do?
After a quick bit of googling it seems the fluvals do have a reputation for leaking. Unfortunately there's no definite answer as to how to resolve it.
Any advice/opinions greatly appreciated!
OK, this evening we noticed the water in the 180 was looking a bit cloudy. Looking at the filter outtake it had stopped completely. This seemed odd as we only did a media change about 3 weeks ago, so figured there was a blockage.
On opening the canister we found that it was the peat media we had put in on the last change that seemed to be causing trouble. It wasn't in a media bag and had gone everywhere. So we cleaned that up and put everything back together.
Now it wouldn't prime. In fact, as we were priming huge globs of air were coming out of the intake pipe. No movement from the outtake pipe at all. After ripping everything apart again and reseating the o-ring we eventually got it working. Briefly.
Then water stopped coming out of the outtake again. Looking at the canister a tiny puddle had formed underneath. No sign of where it came from, but we had dried the canister thoroughly after finishing. We reopened the unit, had a general fiddle and after a couple of tries got the cursed thing working again. That was 2 mins ago and it's still working and there's no new puddle.
What I'm worried about is that we come downstairs in the morning to find a flooded living room. Is this likely? Does anyone know what we can do?
After a quick bit of googling it seems the fluvals do have a reputation for leaking. Unfortunately there's no definite answer as to how to resolve it.
Any advice/opinions greatly appreciated!