stupid canister

[coralman]

I come home after 2 days on vacation and i look at my tank,everything looks fine, wait, the canister isn't going so i check to see if it is plugged in( ya never know) yep it is . So i think hey i'll take it apart .I lift off the lid and i almost passed out from the smell of hydrogin sulfide or something not sure. the smell was only in the canister i know it was because it stoppped and became anaerobic but got any ideas on what caused it to stop?

[MarkS]

The impeller could have broke or the motor could have burned out. Maybe a short in the wiring in the motor casing? There are a lot of possibilities.

Just be glad the motor sits outside of the water. [img]/ubb/wink2.gif[/img]

Mark

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[naser]

always have everything grounded i believe is the lesson here. im so scared of things breaking in my tank be it the heater or a pump ive got everything on a gfi breaker and grounded powerbars with two sets of grounds in both the sump and the tank. although im not sure that a cannister filter would pop it? hum.