00:00Any time to take apart and clean the aquarium pump
00:05See that there. I don't really like to use soap
00:14More hot water
00:18You're all that green wall
00:21For the
00:23If you never know if you miss some then you end up putting it back in the tank
00:30I wouldn't like that
00:34Maybe if hot water is enough for either it can be rubbed off
00:42Let's take this apart
00:45I've been using the one with the two filters
00:54Couple times a week
00:57There's one filter
01:00If I didn't have the camera right now
01:10I'd hold them up with my camera hand here
01:16Just let them
01:18Let it drain
01:20So what we want to do
01:22Is on this model here
01:24Pull out the
01:26To pull out the
01:27Pull out the
01:28Tube here
01:29That separates
01:31And there's a
01:32Plastic ring here
01:33And you can see
01:34Basically it only goes in one way
01:35To do that
01:36To do that better lighting here
01:37To do that better lighting here
01:42And you can see
01:44And you can see
01:45Basically it only goes in one way
01:46To do that better lighting here
01:48To do that better lighting here
01:49Yeah right there
01:50And there's like a twist
01:51Yeah right there
02:04And there's like a twist
02:06So
02:07You would push up the
02:13Pump part here
02:14And you give it a twist
02:19Until it's stayed secure
02:20I'm going to clean this a little better using both hands.
02:33Real hot water there.
02:34Now I'm going to go along with a paper towel.
02:39It should come off pretty easy.
02:44The thing with this though, this one is the Marineland Penguin 175, uses right size B, cartridge monthly.
02:58I haven't changed it monthly though, I just rinse it out and put it back in.
03:03The two filters I remember on this, or other units too, when you lift up on the filter,
03:13sometimes just like a sixteenth or an eighth of an inch,
03:17you'll notice the flow comes out faster.
03:23For some reason, like if it was all the way down,
03:29you wouldn't have, you would have that problem because you want to make sure the fish,
03:35my fish anyhow will let you know when he's not getting enough air.
03:44So I'm going to put this back together.
03:47I just did the one side there.
03:49I've got to see how glossy that is with the algae.
03:53I've got to do this side now one sec.
03:55Notice in the cold weather, the grain will stop spreading.
04:04It'll stop growing as it gets colder.
04:09But in the summer, it's hard to keep up on it.
04:15The water will turn clearer.
04:25Okay, so in here, you can see this here comes out on this unit anyhow.
04:40I'm going to put that in straight with the bigger part up front.
04:59Watch off all these parts.
05:02This ring will go next.
05:07Just sets in there.
05:13And then the idea here, just like that.
05:19See that?
05:22So let's put the flat part.
05:30Yeah, there's like a round part and then a flat part.
05:33This will go in.
05:35This has got to be precise because you'll have leaking water if you don't.
05:48And it fits snug in just like that.
05:51Perfect.
05:52And then you want to prime it too.
05:54So we're going to have some water already in this.
05:59Sometimes you won't get the motor started.
06:03And it won't have enough power to suck the water out of the tank.
06:08I'm going to put the phone down and pause it.
06:11And I'm going to put that part back in here.
06:16Okay, if you notice the cords in the back there.
06:23And this way was the correct way.
06:25Just pushed it up and turned it.
06:28Perfect.
06:29If it doesn't work for you, just turn it the other way.
06:33Now we'll put the filters in and plug it in.
06:36Put some water to test it out.
06:38I hear the buzzing, the vibrations from my hand.
06:51So you'll notice I have to prime it by actually filling it up.
07:04Now there's that stream I was telling you about.
07:08If I were to push the filters in.
07:24Here's what I was talking about.
07:25You can see the stream.
07:29And when you lift up.
07:31See that?
07:32It's a little stronger.
07:34The one that's all the way down.
07:40And then the other pump here.
07:43That one's disconnected.
07:45But I'll probably make a video.
07:48If it's high in demand.
07:50I believe that pump was too old.
07:53The Aqua.
07:54The one we had before this one.
07:56Okay, take care.
