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Filling
To ensure optimal, trouble-free functioning of your EHEIM professionel 3 external lter, we
recommend that you use original EHEIM lter materials. Only they are designed precisely for
use with the EHEIM external lter, provide an ideal surface for purifying bacteria to colonise and
ensure clean, healthy aquarium water. You can buy the right media set for the EHEIM professionel
3 from your pet shop dealer, order number 2520800.
10 Fill the bottom lter insert with EHFIMECH to just below the edge. Fill the second and third
lter insert to just below the edge with SUBSTRAT pro.
Attention: Do not overll as otherwise the lter inserts will not t on top of each other
properly.
11 Next, rinse the lter medium in the lter insert under running water, mixing thoroughly at
the same time, until no cloudiness is visible in the water.
12 Insert the lter insert lled with EHFIMECH at the bottom of the lter container and press
down rmly onto the base runners.
13 Insert the second and third lter inserts (both lled with SUBSTRAT pro) after rinsing in the same
way. Push the handles back in and make sure that all lter inserts lie ush on top of each other.
14 Next, lay the white lter pad on the top lter insert so that it is placed on the pushed-in handle.
Attention: The white lter pad must not be under the handle!
- Place the lattice screen cover on the white lter pad.
Prelter
Function: The prelter collects coarse dirt from the aquarium water so that the water that ows
through the lter inserts has been pre-ltered. This substantially reduces the amount of dirt that
reaches the lter inserts and guarantees highly efcient biological decomposition of pollutants
and a long service life. The prelter can easily be removed. To make interim cleaning even
easier, the scope of delivery includes a dish for transporting the prelter.
15 Insert prelter with blue lter pad in the lter container so that that the overow area is
above the partition.
Note: The priming system only functions when the prelter is empty.
Close lter, insert safety adapter
16 Check that the gasket ts properly on the pump head and the sealing ring ts properly on
the prelter and remove any soiling. Check for soiling on the sealing surface on the upper
edge of the container, clean if necessary and grease lightly with EHEIM Care Spray, Order
No. 400 100 0.
- Place pump head on lter container and close all four clips.
17 Push safety adapter into the pump head, applying light pressure, until it engages with
anaudible CLICK. The shut-off lever must be in the OFF position to insert the adapter as
otherwise a safety mechanism prevents it from engaging.