Hi Reefers,
I'm not sure how long this has been going on but I think it's only been happening recently. I have a Fluval Evo 13.5 with InTank media baskets in both chambers 1and 2. The water is meant to cascade out of the display onto the floss on the top of chamber 1. It doesn't. It flows for a while (a few hours) then just blocks up to flow over the top of the InTank basket. At the moment the tank is fallow (had a parasite in the tank), so there is almost 0 debris in the water. I've tried cutting the filter pad in half so it's not as thick, changing it out twice a day etc.. Even with the filter pad still looking new and white it backs up. I though it may have been kalkwasser blocking it as I've recently started adding it to my ATO. I cleaned out the ATO and went back to plain old RODI water and it still backs up... I've pulled everything out of the back 3 chambers and cleaned it out. If you look at the pictures below: Picture 1: new filter pad in and good overflow into the basket. Picture 2: aerial view of picture 1. Picture 3: Already filling up after ~20 minutes. Picture 4: overflowing after and hour or so. Obviously I want the water flowing through the pad into the media for optimal filtration.
Anyone have any ideas or experience with this problem
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I'm not sure how long this has been going on but I think it's only been happening recently. I have a Fluval Evo 13.5 with InTank media baskets in both chambers 1and 2. The water is meant to cascade out of the display onto the floss on the top of chamber 1. It doesn't. It flows for a while (a few hours) then just blocks up to flow over the top of the InTank basket. At the moment the tank is fallow (had a parasite in the tank), so there is almost 0 debris in the water. I've tried cutting the filter pad in half so it's not as thick, changing it out twice a day etc.. Even with the filter pad still looking new and white it backs up. I though it may have been kalkwasser blocking it as I've recently started adding it to my ATO. I cleaned out the ATO and went back to plain old RODI water and it still backs up... I've pulled everything out of the back 3 chambers and cleaned it out. If you look at the pictures below: Picture 1: new filter pad in and good overflow into the basket. Picture 2: aerial view of picture 1. Picture 3: Already filling up after ~20 minutes. Picture 4: overflowing after and hour or so. Obviously I want the water flowing through the pad into the media for optimal filtration.
Anyone have any ideas or experience with this problem