What are we doing wrong? Leak!

[Daisy]

Hi everyone, newbie here 😁 my husband has recently bought a aqua oak set up second hand and it came with a Aquamanta efx300 filter, so we cleaned, set up and have been treating the water ready for the fish, been a couple of weeks because we wanted to get everything right, anyway, we have a leak! We discovered the bottom of the cabinet was wet and realised the filter was leaking and it appears like it’s coming from the clip, we looked and tried everything we could think of and even bought and fitted a new new o ring but still a leak, so in desperation we bought a new filter an Aquamanta efx400, thinking the other one was second hand maybe it was already leaking? Got it all in and working yesterday and went to sleep all happy thinking yeah back on target for some fish! Now the whole household is watching this cabinet and this morning it has the same leak from the same clip but on the new filter! 😭 now we know it’s got to be us! We’ve done something wrong? We followed the manual when installing but we must have missed something has anyone else experienced this And can point us in the right direction please? Thank you

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I also had various prayers and incantations which I would chant for the filters when I went to bed at night time (particularly after a service).

I think a few of us may have been there.

cheers Darrel