>:( Penguin 350 Bio Wheel RIP OFF!!!!!

[2004exrider]

Well, i sure am glad i spent a pretty penny on a faulty filter. It wasn't an impulse buy it was something i researched for a while and felt it would be a good purchase. But after a couple months i noticed the my bio wheels started to slow down and now one of the POS doesn't even move Is there anything i can do to improve it, or do i call it a loss and learn my lesson?

Jimmy

 

[dmopar74]

clean the filter, take apart everything and clean out all the gunk in it especially the tubes. this is nessecary with any filter but esp. with the penguins. ive been running 5 penguin filters for 3 years with no probs. clean the cups the wheels sit in as well and swish the wheels in tank water periodically to "clean" them. with all ive said i gotta say i have only had the problems yuor having when i didnt have enough filtration on my tanks, gumming up the filters very quickly. i havent done any maintinance on any of my penguins for like 2 years and they work perfect.

 

[Wolf3101]

Bio-wheel stalling is one of the main reasons I only use Emporer filters now but I ran penguins for a lot of years without problems. Water-flow is everything....you need clean pads and you need to keep the inlet pipe clean as well. They are also notoriously poor at running on tanks with a lower water level.

 

[Onion01]

my 75g rated filters never give me problems, but the 50g rated are crap. They are always stalling

 

[mojo2776]

When you do water changes, remove the bio wheel and float it in the tank. Swish it around in aquarium water periodically to clear the excess junk from it. Other than that minor maintenance, I've have very few problems with mine... been running it for 2 years now.

 

[dexman1349]

Like stated above, the only thing I've needed to do was to swish the filter in the tankwater (usually the bucket I've used for my waterchanges), and do a quick wipe down of where they sit.

They've only stalled once, and that was the first time I learned that I need to do that.

 

[2004exrider]

I clean the tube and dip the dio wheels to get any crud off of them and one still stalls everytime Wonder if it's defective in some way?

Jimmy

 

[ZCciVic22]

I have a tone of the bio-wheel filters. Right now I'm running 2 Emperor 400's, an Emperor 350, and an Emperor 250. The wheels will slow down, but as long as you keep the posts they spin on clean, the cups they sit in clean, and the spray bars and inlets clean, you won't (shouldn't) have any problems.

 

[2004exrider]

I have a tone of the bio-wheel filters. Right now I'm running 2 Emperor 400's, an Emperor 350, and an Emperor 250. The wheels will slow down, but as long as you keep the posts they spin on clean, the cups they sit in clean, and the spray bars and inlets clean, you won't (shouldn't) have any problems.

no spray bars on mine.

 

[ScullCraca]

Thats crazy I have been running the same Penguin 330 for more the ten years and no problem at all I have to clean it more then a few times but hey what's new? I am looking for another one as we type.