Priming My Eheim Pro 3 - Page 2 - Equipment

OVT · 11-10-2011, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenho

I just changed the hoses on my 2071 and had trouble too but I found easy way to prime.

At the top of your hoses, the plastic brackets that connect to your intake and outtakes has a cap screwed onto each top. Unscrew the caps and use a funnel to fill the hoses with water. Once your hoses are full the prime push button works like a charm. I've had my filter for a year and never realized what that cap was for until now.

True that. Good point. IME this works better with filter filled with water, or you will be funneling for a while

Kenho · 11-11-2011, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by OVT

True that. Good point. IME this works better with filter filled with water, or you will be funneling for a while

Actually it doesn't take much water to fill the hoses. Use the flow control on the filter and set it to off. Then you don't have to fill the entire canister, just the hoses. Once the hoses are full, just turn on the filter and open the flow, instant prime.

mrlbem · 11-12-2011, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Kenho

Actually it doesn't take much water to fill the hoses. Use the flow control on the filter and set it to off. Then you don't have to fill the entire canister, just the hoses. Once the hoses are full, just turn on the filter and open the flow, instant prime.

This worked!!!!

Thank you. The filter has been running since last night. Two more questions. It's silent except every 2 minutes it gets loud for 5 seconds (sounds like water churning) and then gets silent again. Is this normal? Also, how long until it clears up the excess sediment in the tank from the aquariumplants.com substrate that I have in the tank?

Kenho · 11-13-2011, 06:38 PM

I get the churning sound sometimes too after cleaning. It's just trapped air. I sometimes power on and off the filter. I also use the push button prime to help blast out any trapped air. It should go away on it's own within a day.

After making a mess in my tank it's usually clear by the next day. I love my filter. It's so easy to work on and does a great job polishing my water.

Rip_G · 01-03-2012, 12:43 PM

Thanks to all for your contributions to my success... This discussion led me to eliminate what was not the problem with my Pro 3. Made me focus on another solution...

After trying to prime unsuccessfully and attempting several different possible solutions repeatedly for over 4 hours, I realized (at about 4:00 a.m. when I awoke thinking about this problem) that my problem was not air IN the filter. My problem was air entering INTO the canister.

What I saw at 4 a.m. in my horizontal but lucid state, was that air was entering the intake tube at a greater rate than the water was. I tried pouring water down the hose to fill it up, but that didn't work. It turns out that it was a simple fix--one that I had inadvertently caused--and it worked beautifully with the following first try. And, wouldn't you know, the answer is in the triangle "!" message after step D1 in the set-up instructions.

"When connecting [the] intake installation tube into the elbow connector, only push [the] intake receptacle into [the] tube half way."

What occurred in my installation is that when you push the tube too far in, it pushes onto the raised interior vertical strength protrusions, and the the O-ring no longer can seal out the air.

All you have to do is to pull the tube and elbow apart, check that the O-ring is smooth around (I replaced mine with the spare), and put it back together. After that, I poured water into both the in and out tubes, pumped the air out about 3 times, and VOILA! It now works super!!! --Rip