Maxspect Gyre experiences?

[Matt LeBaron]

So bought a 150 gyre for use on my 90G tank. The timing ended up working well when it arrived on Wednesday. I was doing some tank maintenance that evening when I noticed that my MP40 wasn't running. I pulled the wetside to check it out and found a snail sitting in the cage, it was apparently large enough to mess it up, so I pulled the snail, tried again but no go. Closer inspection of the wetside showed that it's likely done, it looks like it may have bent something, I'll have to disassemble it to really know.

 

But since I had the new 150 Gyre, I grabbed it and installed it on my tank. The flow is amazing, at 60% is was moving a bunch of my sand bed around at the other side of the tank. Could not have been happier with it, until this morning. Went down and checked my tank out real quick and the Gyre sounded terrible. Turned it off and took it apart to figure out why it was making so much noise now because it was silent after I initially installed it. I found one dwarf cerith stuck between two blades on one side and a missing blade on the other, that I have to assume was because of another cerith. Reassembled it and it began running just as well as before, even with the one missing blade. So I think this weekend I'm going to have to glue some of the mesh covering I used to use with my MP40 over the intake vents for the gyre to prevent snails from making it inside. I have somewhere around 60 of those dwarf ceriths in my tank so I can't get rid of them all. I'll post again once I hopefully snail proof the gyre with how it performs after but I'm a bit unhappy about this obvious design flaw. I read in several places how people have had this happen but my gyre hadn't been running for more than 2 days before it happened to me.

[seanoli]

I had a dwarf cerith shred one of the blades on my 130. It's a great water mover but I get anxious when the pumps are off for feeding because I'm afraid a cerith going to sneak in there.

[Rob A]

 

I had the same issue.

[GraffitiSpotCorals]

Yea they are prone to small objects getting stuck. I don't like it either.

 

The new qd we were able to afford finally and they are amazing. My gyre is not even being used at the moment but I would like to add it to my frag tank. We will see how it runs in there maybe.