I have posted this in my journal thread too, but it's urgent so thought I would post here too... Apologies for the double posting
Did some pruning tonight and took the opportunity to clean the eheim 2180. took out the impeller, cleaned that, sprayed with eheim maintenance spray, replaced. Fitted. Primed. Turned on. Grunk grunk. No flow.
Turned off. Impeller out. Spray cleaned with hose. Fitted carefully. Impeller in (Jesus that magnet is strong). Ceramic shaft in. Cover on.
Still screwed.
Repeat ad nauseam. Tried putting I the white shaft first, then the impeller over the top. Still nothing.. Manual suggest either impeller or shaft broken. Both look totally intact to me. If I put the impeller on the shaft in my hand and spin it, it works fine. But once in the filter, no go. I can't believe the motor has gone, and I would say its full of water, at least priming makes no difference even after many pushes. Can anyone advise? What does a broken impeller/ shaft look like? I assume it's obvious? The impeller is hard to turn once in the casing -you can feel the magnetic resistance.
So, either I have broken one of the bits, or I haven't primed properly, or the motor has gone. Can't think what else.
Double nightmare because the co2 is running off this filter, and so is the heater..... Any advice much appreciated.
After water change tonight the tank is at 20 deg. Have moved the heater from my small tank as this might help somewhat. Without co2 I assume I should turn down the lights to 4 hours, and don't feed the fish while I try to fix it?
Did some pruning tonight and took the opportunity to clean the eheim 2180. took out the impeller, cleaned that, sprayed with eheim maintenance spray, replaced. Fitted. Primed. Turned on. Grunk grunk. No flow.
Turned off. Impeller out. Spray cleaned with hose. Fitted carefully. Impeller in (Jesus that magnet is strong). Ceramic shaft in. Cover on.
Still screwed.
Repeat ad nauseam. Tried putting I the white shaft first, then the impeller over the top. Still nothing.. Manual suggest either impeller or shaft broken. Both look totally intact to me. If I put the impeller on the shaft in my hand and spin it, it works fine. But once in the filter, no go. I can't believe the motor has gone, and I would say its full of water, at least priming makes no difference even after many pushes. Can anyone advise? What does a broken impeller/ shaft look like? I assume it's obvious? The impeller is hard to turn once in the casing -you can feel the magnetic resistance.
So, either I have broken one of the bits, or I haven't primed properly, or the motor has gone. Can't think what else.
Double nightmare because the co2 is running off this filter, and so is the heater..... Any advice much appreciated.
After water change tonight the tank is at 20 deg. Have moved the heater from my small tank as this might help somewhat. Without co2 I assume I should turn down the lights to 4 hours, and don't feed the fish while I try to fix it?