whisper filter

[shayfish]

My tetra whisper 5-15 is creating a lot of turbulence in my 5 gallon tank. I have never had these kinds of filters and I don't see a way to turn down the flow. Is there anything I can do?

 

[Yeti]

is there a knob on top of the filter? thats the flow control, I know my whisper filter has one on top but its made for a 60gal tank, yours might not have a flow control on there.. i wouldnt recommend blocking up your intake with a large rock either.. that will burn out the pump haha

 

[flip_lx]

i don't think whispers have flow control on the low end (ive the same model) what you could do is place it at a end of the tank so it "spills" out straight into a cornoer to take the force of it.

you can try to tinker with the impeller if you want to or try to blcok part of the pump/intake

 

[kennef]

you can always try the Quick and dirty HOB Flow Diverter

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=95431&highlight=

I actually had to make another one because i had a whisper pushing too much down on my plants. this one was just out of some junk i had around, but if you wanted something fancy, you could make it out of PVC or whatever...

 

[tropicfishman]

sounds liek your intake tube might not be pushed down all the way, which means the impellar isn't seated all the way, it take sosme fooling around with but I guarentee it will prolyl pop down about a 1/4" my whisper did that everytime I took it apart to clean it

 

[shayfish]

Kennef, is that ever clever. Wow.

I am quite sure that the tube is as far down as it can go. I will have to start thinking about something to divert some of the flow...