Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:13 am Re: FLUVAL 305 not pumping / making grinding noise
Easy quick way to do a water change. Take a garden hose and with one end outside, put other end to the output to force water through the hose to get siphon started. Drain and refill.
To restart the canister filter after cleaning, put garden hose to the intake tubing and turn on the water. (Use a nozzle to adjust flow and wrap hands tightly around the connection to prevent squirting water up at you.)
This way you fill the canister and the tubing all in one step, then plug in filter to run.