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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Tanks and Equipment => Topic started by: barneyadi on May 28, 2020, 09:18:44 PM
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Any external filter experts around. Tried priming one but it is refusing to prime. Only thing I can think is the pipes have to go down to then go up back of cabinet. Could this cause an issue?
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It might struggle to Prime if there’s water in one of the pipes.
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It might struggle to Prime if there’s water in one of the pipes.
ok, will try that tomorrow.
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Just to clarify, all the priming button does is start a siphon, and it’s hard to start a siphon if there’s already water in the pipework.
When I clean a filter I always do it during a waterchange, so the return pipe is easily emptied because it’s above the water level. I put a tap on the intake pipe near the filter, and close the tap while I’m cleaning the filter. Then when it’s all assembled again with the pipes reconnected, I just open the tap and the filter fills, because the intake pipe was full of water.
Hope that makes sense. :)
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Thanks for the help guys. Finally managed to get it primed this morning. My other external filter primed very easily, so that helps.