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Hi All,

Cleaned my display tank in the weekend,which is filtered by a Fluval FX5,was working fine. Set it back up again ,turned power on and it doesnt work.FIlter is only about 2 years old. Does anyone know of any tips on how to fix it?

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Not running at all? No noise or lights or anything?

Or do you get a hum but with no flow?

Strip it down. Check the parts individually (especially impeller and impeller shaft)
Put it back together carefully.

If you only quickly detached the hoses and cleaned the bucket - pull down the hoses and flush them out good as well.

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See if it pumps anything with an empty barrel (ie. no media)

If it's humming but not pumping and definitely not blocked - then you will probably need to concentrate checking the impeller, shaft, and head unit.

If it was me, I'd replace the impeller and shaft and see how that goes. If it doesnt fix it, you have a spare impeller when you fix whatever the issue is...

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Well ,I took the motor off the side,cleaned it out and put it back together.Ran it with and without media basket.But still doing the same thing ,need to order the impeller next and try that

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