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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

Pump life.

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02 Apr 2018 15:42 #1 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Hi guys,

For the past few years my Blau reef motion pump has been running in my freshwater tank, pumping water from the sump back into the main tank.

Recently it has started to slow down, stutter occasionally, and this causes the water in my overflow to drop until it starts sucking on my bottom outlet, and making lots of noise.

What sort of life span do these pumps have? Is it time to replace it?

I do like the fact that I can alter it from 1-100% as this aids really fine adjustments and makes the tank run almost silent.

If It does need a replacement, what’s the pump to replace it with?

Thanks all.

J

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02 Apr 2018 18:14 #2 by Aldrin (Aldrin Martin)
Replied by Aldrin (Aldrin Martin) on topic Pump life.
I'm not sure if this may help, but maybe something such as algae is clogging up the input or output of the pump, slowing it down?

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03 Apr 2018 13:26 #3 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Replied by Jonlate (Jon Late) on topic Pump life.
I do clean the outlet pipe regularly, and there is no inlet as it’s in the sump.
And I do take the pump apart every 2 months and clean the impeller and inside the housing.

So I don’t think it’s to do with the pipe work.

Thanks for the thought though.

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03 Apr 2018 13:59 #4 by fishmad1234 (Craig Coyle)
Have you cleaned the propeller out.

Or do you have access to it I know some are built inside the case.



Regards
Craig

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03 Apr 2018 15:46 #5 by FR85 (Gavin O'Sullivan)
Replied by FR85 (Gavin O'Sullivan) on topic Pump life.
Had a similar thing with a pond pump, the ceramic shaft on the impeller had wear on it and that was causing a bit of play on the impeller itself, new impeller and shaft and the problem was sorted.

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04 Apr 2018 13:39 #6 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Replied by Jonlate (Jon Late) on topic Pump life.
I have changed the impeller, so maybe I need to try and replace the rubber/plastic bushings at each end.

But I doubt I will be able to find them to buy, finding a new impeller was hard enough.

That’s why I was asking how long are pumps meant to last?

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25 Apr 2018 10:26 #7 by FR85 (Gavin O'Sullivan)
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Cannot say, I've been running an Eheim 2236 for 10 years without hassle, JBL E900 again with out hassle for 6 years and the same pond pump for 5 years with that one impeller incident. With regular maintenance I think the life span is endless.

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