powerhead sucks - Page 2

geopod · #11 10-18-2005, 05:51 PM

Jason,

I feel for ya man I really do.I dont wanna hijack your thread.But evryone knows I am out of the country.I phone home one night and the wife say she is trying to get the anenome out of the power head.Well as she was pulling it out the other LTA got sucked up in another one.I wasnt there I couldnt help I told her to unplug the powerbar and she didnt know where it was.So I lost two that day.My clowns were divorced by then SO needless to say I will be buying another one when I get home and taking these two clowns to marriage counseling.

But someone mentioned putting foam on the powerhead.Does it work ?Has anyone tried it?

george

OCDP · #12 10-18-2005, 06:10 PM

Sorry to hear about your TWO losses, sheesh.. that's such a bummer.

As for the foam.. I have tried using foam (they make special guards for powerheads) I just used a cheap , cheap method for a couple weeks when my anemone was first introduced. I just took a normal ol' piece of foam, and zip tied it around the powerhead intake. The only downside to doing this is that it slightly reduces the powerhead flow... If the intake is covered completely the anemone cannot get stuck in it.

reeferaddict · #13 10-18-2005, 07:24 PM

Yeesh! Pills people! Does anyone think anyone else wishes a dead anemone on any of us?

At times maybe some of us use ill-advised humour, but that doesn't mean we have to be crucified... I think the point here is that we've ALL had some minor or major disaster that could have been averted had we taken ALL the necessary precautions... my following post was simply in recognition of this, as I have 4 powerheads WITHOUT foam covers running... I'm sure as we speak one of my anemones is probably crawling towards one of those blenders....

I think if I ever came home to a major crash I may have to pee in the tank to finish it off... if we can't find humour, then why are we here?

OCDP · #14 10-18-2005, 07:33 PM

Ahh, it was never intended to be a bash on WWWD. But there IS a difference between humour and sarcasm... now this thread has gone off track.. but if it was a joke, he could have made a point of showing the humour in what he said. I bet the majority of people read the post as a saracastic comment. We definitely should have sense of humours, but we don't need the sarcasm is all I am saying.

Bob I · #15 10-18-2005, 07:47 PM

This is not sarcastic, just instructional. You can get a filter foam for Maxijet powerheads. I found them to be expensive, but I still have a couple I don't use.

A good substitute is a filter foam for a small AC filter. All you do is cut a slit in one end, and slide it over the plastic doohickie Maxijets have in the box (usually)

Edmonton Eskimo · #16 10-19-2005, 12:47 AM

First off I have had this anemone for a long time and it has been attached to the same rock since the first week that I had it so it never moved unless I moved the rock. I have never had foam on my powerheads and never had a problem as like I said my anemone never moved. What I think happened is the last couple days I haven't run my metal halides as I need to replace a part. My anemone had been stretching out more than usual to get a little more light from my pc's and one of his tentacles must have got sucked in and that is what caused his demise. I don't think humor or sarcasm was in order in this case as I was clearly upset in my original post. If I would have been joking about it then ya humor is welcome. I know it's a bad example but if someone dies in a car crash you wouldn't tell there family he should have worn a seatbelt would you? Let's try and use some tact is all I'm saying and thank you to everyone who responded to this post.