I just bought a whisper 10i and the filter clogged in 2 days, I have a 10 gal tank with snails and one plant, I have to wash out the filter every day, or it doesn't work, any way I can resolve this?
Fliter Clogging
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Good thought ^
If you can't see the debris which is causing the clogging, its probably your media is too densely packed.
I had a Whisper 60 that kept getting clogged up constantly, I could never figure it out so in the end removed the filter (I still have it for use on a QT tank). The only media I had in there were the standard filter and foam that came with it. The filters never looked all that dirty, and even after cleaning them in a bucket of tank water they still overflowed right away.
If you just bought the filter I would be tempted to take it back and replace for either an Aquaclear or Penguin filter.
If you just bought the filter I would be tempted to take it back and replace for either an Aquaclear or Penguin filter.
HOB right?
I run a whisper 10 in my 10g fry/QT tank.
I run the coarse foam and fluval/seachem ceramic bio media. Toss in a polishing pad if you want that you can just swap out bi-weekly.
I run a whisper 10 in my 10g fry/QT tank.
I run the coarse foam and fluval/seachem ceramic bio media. Toss in a polishing pad if you want that you can just swap out bi-weekly.
I think it's bacteria and debris that are clogging it up, I also have alot of snail poo, cause it's a snail tank, anyway, the media is only at the bottom of the filter cartridge, very little media, when I wash it, there's a bunch of slime coming off it.
