MsMarch
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Hey everyone. This isn't really a question or anything, just more of a story/cautionary/rant.
I'm currently in the process of setting up my second tank, a ten gallon for some ADFs. Since I already have a tank up, I figured I could just pop the new filter on my 20 gallon for a while and have the whole thing cycled pretty easily. I have a Seachem filter on my 20 and it works amazing, but it's much too big for a ten, so I grabbed a Tetra Whisper Filter at the store.
Oh boy.
First of all, the assembly was nearly impossible. The intake tube doesn't fit into the filter very well, so in order to get the thing to work I had to jam it in place using all the muscles I've built hauling buckets of water. It took at least an hour, and many frightened fish, to get it going at all.
The next day, I come home to find the filter making an incredibly obnoxious, high pitched whining noise. Great. I pull it out, disassemble it, clean off the impeller, put it back together, and ta-da, problem solved.
Two days later, it starts making a new high pitched whining noise. I take it apart and clean it again. The noise persists. I fiddle with the intake, and find that if I push it all the way over to the side, the noise stops, so I fix it in place with a binder clip and some cardboard. Not the prettiest DIY, but at least I can sleep.
Tonight, I turned it off for my weekly water change, and turned it on again to find it finally "whispering" for the first time since I got it. This is because it is no longer working. I rue the day I bought this thing, and if the store won't let me return it, I'm going to toss it onto the street and run over it repeatedly with my car.
Obviously I'm a little ticked off, so I came here to vent. Anyone else have experience with Tetra Whisper Filters? Or just a terrible filter story/filters I should avoid when I go to replace this one?
I'm currently in the process of setting up my second tank, a ten gallon for some ADFs. Since I already have a tank up, I figured I could just pop the new filter on my 20 gallon for a while and have the whole thing cycled pretty easily. I have a Seachem filter on my 20 and it works amazing, but it's much too big for a ten, so I grabbed a Tetra Whisper Filter at the store.
Oh boy.
First of all, the assembly was nearly impossible. The intake tube doesn't fit into the filter very well, so in order to get the thing to work I had to jam it in place using all the muscles I've built hauling buckets of water. It took at least an hour, and many frightened fish, to get it going at all.
The next day, I come home to find the filter making an incredibly obnoxious, high pitched whining noise. Great. I pull it out, disassemble it, clean off the impeller, put it back together, and ta-da, problem solved.
Two days later, it starts making a new high pitched whining noise. I take it apart and clean it again. The noise persists. I fiddle with the intake, and find that if I push it all the way over to the side, the noise stops, so I fix it in place with a binder clip and some cardboard. Not the prettiest DIY, but at least I can sleep.
Tonight, I turned it off for my weekly water change, and turned it on again to find it finally "whispering" for the first time since I got it. This is because it is no longer working. I rue the day I bought this thing, and if the store won't let me return it, I'm going to toss it onto the street and run over it repeatedly with my car.
Obviously I'm a little ticked off, so I came here to vent. Anyone else have experience with Tetra Whisper Filters? Or just a terrible filter story/filters I should avoid when I go to replace this one?