chris.pull
Seedling
Hi all,
New member here looking for some advice. I have a 25L nano and last weekend swapped out an older canister filter for a new Oase Filtosmart 100 with the built-in heater (mainly because I wanted the heater out of the aquarium).
Since it's been up and running, it frequently pumps out a stream of air bubbles from the outlet, about once a minute. Moreover, if I tilt it to the side, it will release a huge stream of bubbles into the aquarium. At first, I thought this was just trapped air from where I filled it up, but even if I tilt the filter until it no longer blows out bubbles, I can replicate this again later on.
My guess is that it's sucking in air somewhere; this air is then creating a pocket at the top of the filter, which is then released every few minutes when this air bubble is large enough to reach the air siphon inside.
I've checked all the pipes and it doesn't seem to be sucking air in there. Perhaps there's a gap in the seam? I wondered if anyone else had this problem. I have the receipt so, hopefully, I can still take it back if it turns out to have a dodgy seal.
Any advice welcome!
Cheers,
Chris
New member here looking for some advice. I have a 25L nano and last weekend swapped out an older canister filter for a new Oase Filtosmart 100 with the built-in heater (mainly because I wanted the heater out of the aquarium).
Since it's been up and running, it frequently pumps out a stream of air bubbles from the outlet, about once a minute. Moreover, if I tilt it to the side, it will release a huge stream of bubbles into the aquarium. At first, I thought this was just trapped air from where I filled it up, but even if I tilt the filter until it no longer blows out bubbles, I can replicate this again later on.
My guess is that it's sucking in air somewhere; this air is then creating a pocket at the top of the filter, which is then released every few minutes when this air bubble is large enough to reach the air siphon inside.
I've checked all the pipes and it doesn't seem to be sucking air in there. Perhaps there's a gap in the seam? I wondered if anyone else had this problem. I have the receipt so, hopefully, I can still take it back if it turns out to have a dodgy seal.
Any advice welcome!
Cheers,
Chris