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No it is a solvent that will literally melt the 2 pieces of plastic back together. I'd be concerned about hot gluing something that could dump half my tank on the floor....

I'd try plastic cement rather than hot glue, and as suggested silicone grease will be better for the seals. If you can get your hands on dow corning dc4 or equivalent would be good as I've found a lot of the cheaper stuff tends to be very runny

You'll struggle to get enough grip with normal needle nose pliers, if you haven't got vise-grips I'd try a set of normal pliers as they will grip better. If they are directly into the plastic then they should come out fairly easily without wd40, all the wd40 will do is make the screw more...

You won't drill those out easily. The drill will want to wander off into the plastic, you'd have to use a very short drill and a drill press. There should be just enough sticking out to get a set of needle nose vise-grips on there and wind them out.

Why not just replace the primer button oring? Ime(which in this area is fairly extensive;)) once an oring is knackered nothing you can do will make it seal like simply replacing it. I'd go for a new diaphragm while you're at it. Install with plenty of grease(which I doubt the factory does) and...

Sorry tank was 72x30x30 http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2453334

I've read a user review on another forum today and at 50% power it started shifting the substrate at the opposite end of their 60x24x24 inch tank in a major way. They ended up with it a 20% power.

I bought an eheim from zooplus. De and they threw in an adapter for the plug.

6.90 euro but looks like if you spend more than 99 euro its free

Same here.

I used a 2213 on my ebi only 45 quid from zooplus I didn't find the flow excessive

Looks like a CO2 reactor to me. I also have one of these filters and it is a good bit of kit.

Try dropping them in a mug of boiling water I find this usually sorts them out.

Buy second hand? There is someone near me selling an xp3 for £40.

NA and they look good

I have this same issue with mine and John Allen Aquariums pretty much said its normal, the bloke I spoke to said its a common complaint. I went through 3 trying to sort the issue out. Apparently since they shifted production to china they havent been the same. Most of the noise comes from the...

Lol sure is. The easier you make it for yourself the more likely you are to clean it, especially true for those eheim classics. Id recomend getting a set of disconnect taps if it doesnt come with them.

I wash the foam under the tap and give the balls a quick swill in tank water

I dont use this and havent bothered to add anything in its place

I just use the blue foam and plastic bioballs, cheap and easy to maintain with minimal loss of flow.

Im using a 2213 on my 30l no issues and not throttled back at all

There dosent seem to be any major damage just some very faint grooves barely detectable to the touch where the black marks are. This was taken out of a brand new filter before it had even been run. Darrel have any of yours looked like this after long term running or being run dry?

For you guys using these classics does this look like normal wear?

I'm having the same issues with mine from the get go. I've just had it apart and there seems to be wear on the shaft and play between it and the impeller. 3 days old!!!!! Seems people have been getting german made replacement shaft and impellers and no issues after that.

Found it, http://www.aka.org/UserFiles/File/debruyn_filter.pdf

Thanks

Hi All, Im after the name or thread it was in, of the type of filter that sat on top of a tank and used roof guttering full of gravel that was then planted. Any help would be appreciated.

I clean my JBL e1500 monthly by dumping my biomedia(bioballs) in a bucket of tank water and washing all the sponges out under the tap. Idealy you need to keep your bio and mech filtration as separate entities so you can wash/replace you mech as often as required to keep flow up without affecting...

Re: Broken Ex1200 (again) I just picked up a second hand Rena xp3, Impressed with the solidness of the build would recomend one of these aswell.

The smallest ehiem ecco external I picked one up for £20 a couple of months ago Ollie

Any chance of a pic of the tool it may be that it is to rough still. Direction of rotation will probably affect it aswell. The most important thing will the amount of pressure applied and that the tool is not to rough any vibration will shatter the glass especially with a carbide/diamond tool...

What sort of bit were you using? you could also try a fine file Regards Ollie

Very carefully :lol: Depends on which type it is ive seen a few and I think the easiest to enlarge would be the ones with vertical slots you could then lengthen the slots without making them wider. I would use a dremel type tool with a very fine (the finer the better) stone or sand paper disk...

Checked mine and the ehiem intake is smaller diameter then the ehiem hose as well. So diameter shouldn't be the problem. The amount or way the holes on the intake a shaped is more likely to be causing the problem.I was looking at marine overflows the other day and came across a rule about flow...

http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=9042&p=97676&hilit=fluval+g+series#p97676 A short discussion on the G series Regards Ollie

Thanks for the links the second one is a great read :thumbup: Regards Ollie

Here is a vid http://www.fluvalblog.com/fluval-g-test-drive-station-live-hd-video/

Spotted one of these at my LFS http://www.fluvalblog.com/g-series/ :shock: I didnt have much time to check it out properly so has any one else seen/got one they look pretty cool in the flesh so good in fact it would be a shame to hide it in a cabinet.