A Little Bit of Random Flow

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by Treebeard

Mark, you are saying the Hydor Rotating Deflector seized? That was my next choice after the Zoo Med Powersweep.

Yup, the Hydors. I've also seen one in an LFS display that was turning slowly and erratically. Just a matter of time for that one, IMO. Maybe others have had success with them, but not me. I chucked both my Hydors in the garbage.

[Whatigot]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

Yup, the Hydors. I've also seen one in an LFS display that was turning slowly and erratically. Just a matter of time for that one, IMO. Maybe others have had success with them, but not me. I chucked both my Hydors in the garbage.

Ran a hydor deflector on my aquapod for over a year and never cleaned it once.
it never seized on me and I wasn't even the one who bought it so it was probably a good year old by the time it came rotating to me...

[Johnny Reefer]

They are hit or miss then, I guess. Just sayin' mine were poopy.

[Whatigot]

totally.
I was surprised to read it so I thought I'd share my experience as it was pretty much the exact opposite.

gotta love diversity.

[fkshiu]

I ran a couple of hydor rotating thingys for about a year with no problems. Then things started going south pretty quickly with them and they stopped rotating no matter what I did. It seems that the rotating mechanism, which involves a lot of little plastic gears, has some pretty tight tolerances and if something is out by just a little bit as the result of wear the whole thing stops.