low flow on my fx6 randomly and maintenance

[shern]

Greetings all, recently i noticed that my fx5 has had extremely low amount of water flow coming out of the hose. it sounds perfectly normal and i doubt any air has gone in. this happened a couple weeks back and i assumed that maybe cleaning out the filter would help and it seemed to work up until now. the flows gone back to its low rate and i wondering if its time i change the impeller and motor since its been quite a while since i’ve last done that. problem being that i cant really find spare parts for the discontinued fluval fx5, and i dont know if fx6 parts work on my old fx5. please let me know

 

[dmyersWv]

Fluvalaquatics.com has parts for fx5. I believe the motor and impeller are the same on fx5 and fx6. Best of luck.

 

[shern]

Fluvalaquatics.com has parts for fx5. I believe the motor and impeller are the same on fx5 and fx6. Best of luck.

before i drop a hundred on a new impeller, motor and maintenance kit could it be a power/ wattage issue? both my fx5 and fx4 along with all my lights are connected to the same port but they’ve been going well for years.

 

[dmyersWv]

Doesn't sound like the power is the issue. Could always swap outlets to test. Not sure where your located but you could check out Craigslist and Facebook market place for a used FX to part out.