How To Remove Black Box From Juwel

[discus dreamer]

Hi
I am hoping someone else has done this. I have a juwel 60 and it has a black box in the corner that did contain the heater and filter but i replaced the pump with a seperate filter and moved the heater outside the box to ensure it was in the moving water. Now I want to remove the black housing as it isn't necessary. Any tips anyone? It doesn't feel like it will come away easily and I don't want to damage the glass or leave any rough edges in the tank. I am going to move the fish (5 cories and a blue ram) to a hospital tank and empty it out completely so that I can change from gravel to sand and do a good clean up at the same time.
thanks
DD

 

[DarkEntity]

Search the forum there are at least 4 threads reagarding how to do it. But its very simple. Cut the silicon off the rear of the box with a long craft knife.

Also make sure you cycle the tank again once refilled and planted etc as the bacteria u have will be dead if its not continually used while the removal etc is in progress/

 

[discus dreamer]

Brilliant!
thanks for getting back, am just about to move my corries and the filter to my hospital tank and was hoping to get the whole thing done this weekend.
Didn't know about searching on this forum, will check that out.
DD

 

[Kevstir]

I also plan to do this once the external is up to speed (removing one pad a week from the juwel), i plan on using a craft knife and cutting the silicon towards the middle of the tank as cutting towards the side risks cutting the silicon that holds the tank together..

Kev

 

[Rodders]

I pushed a thin srewdriver down through the top two pads. Once they were off, I moved the whole unit to the left and right (holding the top of the unit) which worked off the bottom two.

 

[bingy_bong]

I Took the internal filter out of my new Jewel rio 300. All i did was to cut the 'blobs of silicone' nearest the outer edge of the box first , then that gave me enough room to get the bread knife in and remove the two 'blobs of silicone' nearest the corners. Only took me miniutes to do, but there were a few moments when my heart was going ten to the dozen.
But then again my tank was empty I dont think i would do it with 300 litres in

 

[smithrc]

did my 240 today... gave up trying to cut it out... I managed to pull mine off

Its not actually silicone that holds it on, its a sort of putty stuff - which is good as silicone is a bummer to get off glass.