Re: [GSAS-Member] Help! Power outage burned out 2 tank filters . . .

["A JACOBSON" <amjacobson52@msn.com>]

I appreciate everyone's advice, and did manage to get the filters up and 
running again - a real relief.

Thanks,

Anita
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kate Breimayer<mailto:kate@munat.com> 
  To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
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  Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Help! Power outage burned out 2 tank filters . . .


  Ditto here, they are surprisingly durable. Don't run them with the lids 
  off though, I had one eject it's sponge and pump the water onto the 
  floor. Was fine for weeks sans lid and then one day water went flying 
  everywhere. Glad I was home.
  Kate

  Hess, Clay A wrote:

  >Anita,
  >
  >I have had my AquaClears run stuck like that for days....and they start
  >right up if you clean them up and put fresh water in them.  Make sure
  >you dump the hot water as it is usually pretty foul by the time the
  >motor gets that hot.  
  >
  >Clay
  >
  >-----Original Message-----
  >From: A JACOBSON [mailto:amjacobson52@msn.com] 
  >Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:24 PM
  >To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
  >Subject: [GSAS-Member] Help! Power outage burned out 2 tank filters . 
  >.
  >
  >
  >I had a 2 second power outage.  I could see that the filter of the tank
  >I was sitting by was working well, so didn't think anything of it.
  >
  >All the filters I'm talking about are Aqua Clear.
  >
  >I just discovered that another filter, on a different tank wasn't
  >working.  Motor is hot -- assume it dumped it's water, & then motor
  >overheated.
  >
  >No problem, I thought -- another tank had two filters.  So I ambled over
  >to by 40 gallon, only to discover that one of it's two filters had done
  >the same thing.
  >
  >So now I've got 4 tanks, & 3 filters.  Plus I'm going to be out of town
  >tomorrow, so the earliest a new filter could be put in place is Monday
  >evening.
  >
  >Are either of my hot filters likely to cool down enough (they are
  >unplugged) that they will start again?  Or is it "pennies on the
  >eyelids" for them?
  >
  >I've got a new 10 gallon tank, with only a small pearl gourami in it.
  >Should I take it's Mini filter, put it on the 20 gallon without
  >filtration, and move the gourami to it?
  >
  >The 20 gallon that is currently without filtration is heavily planted,
  >but fairly full (it's the 2 frogs, one crab, 2 monk tetras, a botia
  >stratia, 2 tiny flying foxes, and 6 small cherry barbs).
  >
  >Anita
  >
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