I got a new toy!

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Insert 'Tim the tool man tailor' Grunt here

i had a cascade 300 hob on my 55g power went out overnight i woke up the motor was burned along with the impeller melted to the motor.

The HOB's suck, I have one and really don't like it but the canisters are great!
Never messed with the in tank filters, I like to keep my electricity outside of the tank.......Gotten zapped one too many times.....

If it's a home tank where you can refill it to restart it after a brownout - that's fine. Just imagine your tanks going without filtration over a school break because outside filters didn't restart after a brown-out. Fish wouldn't be doing too well.

The canisters run through a brownout and if they do shut off they restart.

I just had the worst LFS trip in my life..if you come down here never use Beverly's pets there horrible.. i was walking for 25 no help and wend i asked this idiot for help he tells me..I'm to busy find some else to help you..I'm like what? talk to the store manager he was like blah blah sorry....i found some kribs i been looking for several months..and i just walked out..never coming back. the clerk should have said"i'm busy right now if you give me a couple of minutes i will be right with you.

Wow!
Dude you've been looking for kribs for several months?!?!?! My lfs tends to keep em in stock.

sweet outside from paying 30 shipping for a 2 dollar fish witch makes no since. yea i been looking for krips for a while. until today..had to walk out.. there were too expensive anyways 6.99 each..sorry had to vent there for a sec

No problem
From me to you is flat rate.......

Well I finally got it all hooked up, I have the spray bar on now...... After I move Martha back into the tank I will be curious to see if she leaves it on or rips it off......

Martha?

One of the 2 flowerhorns in the 90g that I now have the filter running on.

oh i was thinking of Martha steward or something..

No

It's ok to vent Jaiko, I calmly informed Alexander Chevrolette's service department that I would NEVER do business with them again after I agreed to spend $100 on a repair so I authorized it - then it rang up to $488. They weren't apologetic over the 'miscommunication' - so I wasn't apologetic about never returning to even consider purchasing another car...

Bad on them - since we'll need two more cars in five years. That's when both our younger kids hit 16!

(Did I fail to mention that I might also not recommend them to everyone I come in contact with? Like the 150+ 15-16 year olds I teach...... LOL)

I wrote and email to them here what i got back

I did review the tapes and talked to the employees. The store was very busy. Two employees stayed on 1/2 hour past their time to go home to help cover the floor. At times like that on a weekend it is sometimes unavoidable that there will be a wait, especially if aquatic salespeople are tied up selling large aquarium packages, as was the case last evening. Saturday is the busiest day of the week.

The 2nd girl you spoke with offered to get you what you needed and you refused help. I can understand that you were frustrated for having to wait. We also spoke with the first person that was 'too' busy and he will get a retraining session on how to communicate better and in a more customer friendly way.

We appreciate the feedback so that we can improve our customer service.

Marc - Beverly's Pet Center

Blah Blah Blah

I use that canister in one of my tanks.... it has more power than any of my other canisters.... but Ive read its because the water kinda bipasses the filter media... and thats a big bummer.... lots of water movement, but its no eheim.... let me know how it performs for you.

jaiko1975 wrote:

oh i was thinking of Martha steward or something..

So far so good! Its getting all of the monster turds off the bottom so that makes me very very happy! No more netting them out every few days I've never had a clouding issue in that tank so I can't say if its improved the clarity.

but it wasn't cloudy last time i went.. lol talking about your house i did realize i cut myself on the leg trying to break the driftwood lol, i had my hole leg bleeding when i got home, but nothing serious.

whats muster turds? please explain

Big poop.

oh big big poop

Ya big fish = monster poop!

Wow Isaac! Wonder when you did that....? Glad your ok though! Hows that wood working out for you?

not like my pleco poop is run as long as the 55g tank

No just big fat chunks, not stringy like pleco poo but its a bunch of poo! I cant even use a gravel vac to get it out, I either need to use just the hose part or a net to get it out...... big 'ol machines is what they are!

hahaha nice poo machines so is my eel and knife fish